St Petersburg

Gogol, Nikolai: on ballet, 250; on Dostoyevsky, 37; on Last Day of Pompeii, 62; music based on works of, 76, 79; and Nabokov, 320, 322; on Petersburg, xiv, 26-32, 48, 53-54, 214, 441; popularity of, xv, 38, 294; quotations from, in Poem Without a Hero, 473; and St. Petersburg, 26-33, 48, 53-54, 125, 136, 215; and Zoshchenko, 378, 382-83—works: The Inspector General, 300, 398-99; Nevsky Prospect, 382-83; The Overcoat, 28, 30-31, 36, 37, 76, 455-56; The Nose, 28, 29, 50, 79, 373, 388, 408, 456

Goleizovsky, Kasyan, 296, 299, 315

Golenishchev-Kutuzov, Arseny, 88, 105, 106

Golos (The Voice), 44

Golovin, Alexander, 148, 171, 199-200, 293

Golovkin, Count, 8

Golyavkin, Viktor, 526

Gorbachev, Mikhail, 429-30, 516, 535, 537, 543, 544-45

Gorbachev, Raisa, 537

Gorbanevskaya, Natalya, 508

Gorbovsky, Gleb, 521, 523, 531

Gorenko, Anna. See Akhmatova, Anna

Goricheva, Tatyana, 531

Gorky, Maxim, 187, 210, 211, 214, 227-29, 232, 235, 351, 380, 538

Gorodetsky, Mikhail, 153

Gorodetsky, Sergei, 178

Govorov, Lt. Gen. Leonid, 440, 448-49

Grachev, Rid, 521

Grandeur of the Universe, 298-300

Granin, Daniil, xvi, 439-40

Great Citizen, The, 459-60

Great Terror, xvi, 414-22, 441, 442, 459-60, 495-96, 522

Grebenshikov, Boris, 533-35

Grechaninov, Alexander, 343

Griboedov, Alexander, 287, 500

Grigorovich, Dmitri, 37, 48

Grigorovich, Yuri, 506

Grigoryev, Apollon, 33-34, 39

Grigoryev, Boris, 185, 492

Grigoryev, Oleg, 530-31 Grin, Alexander, 384

Gromov, Valentin, 529

Gukovsky, Grigory, 452-53

Gumilyov, Lev, 229, 415-17, 421, 469, 510-11, 546

Gumilyov, Nikolai: and Akhmatova, 162-63, 169, 172-73, 178, 228-30, 237-42, 468; arrest of, 234-37, 241, 415, 537; and Blok, 230-31, 239; in Bolshevik Petrograd, 222, 228, 229; and cultural enterprises under the Bolsheviks, 228; death of, 235, 236, 239-40, 318, 323, 354, 421, 449, 518, 537; divorce from Akhmatova, 230; in duel, 169, 171-73; and Eikhenbaum, 453; Ivanov on, 405; marriage to Akhmatova, 162; Merezhkovskys’ reception for, 168; on Tsvetayeva, 167; poetry of, 174, 178-79, 230, 317, 375, 405, 533; rehabilitation of, 537; at The Stray Dog, 187; view of Europe, 10; at Vsemirnaya Literatura Publishing House, 228; in World War I, 196-99, 228

Gusev, Pyotr, 298, 305

Gushchinsky, Vassily, 310

Gvozdev, Alexei, 309

Hamlet (film), 463-64, 500

Hamsun, Knut, 147

Hartman, Viktor, 86

Heifetz, Yascha, 74, 361-63, 368

Herbert, George, 518

Hermitage Museum, 18, 206, 213, 541

Hermitage Theater, 283-84

Herzen, Alexander, 42, 62

Hindemith, Paul, 367, 370, 371

Hippius, Zinaida, 127, 144, 149, 158, 168-69, 172, 175, 199, 215, 330, 536

Hitler, Adolf, xvi, 342, 425-26, 428, 429, 439, 442, 446

Hoffmann, E. T. A., 28, 53, 124, 137, 264-65, 294, 375

Homosexuality, 99-100, 156, 189, 202, 265, 364

Horowitz, Vladimir, 312, 364

House of the Arts, 380-82, 385-87

Hugo, Victor, 53, 131

Idiot, The (ballet), 504

Imperial Russian Musical Society, 74, 76, 80, 106

Inber, Vera, 335

Ippolitov-Ivanov, Mikhail, 343

Iron Hall, 284, 308, 311

Ivan the Terrible, 451-52

Ivanov, Georgy, 320, 405

Ivanov, Vsevolod, 376

Ivanov, Vyacheslav, 158, 171, 177-78, 190, 217, 317, 405

Ivanova, Lydia, 303, 304, 306, 312-13

Jeu des cartes, 321, 325

Jews, 103, 153, 183-84, 277-78, 362, 366, 454, 513, 519, 545-46

Joyce, James, 215, 320, 523

Kafka, Franz, 31, 215, 320, 407, 477

Kantemir, Antioch, 16, 515

Kapp, Artur, 343

Karakozov, Dmitri, 90-91

Karamzin, Nikolai, 11

Karatygin, Vassily, 27-28

Karatygin, Vyacheslav, 189, 190

Kardovsky, Dmitri, 492

Karsavina, Tamara, 187, 268, 292, 501

Kataev, Valentin, 447

Kavelin, Konstantin, 43

Kaverin, Veniamin, 339, 378, 498

Kazan Cathedral, 39, 94, 128, 240, 504-05

Kchessinska, Mathilda, 192-94, 203, 258

Kennedy, Jacqueline, 257

Khachaturian, Aram, 72, 451, 463

Kharms, Daniil, 392-94, 397, 401, 405-08, 488, 493-94, 526, 539

Kheifetz, Mikhail, 517

Khlebnikov, Velimir, 167, 270, 367, 369, 394, 527

Khodasevich, Vladislav, 150, 180, 234-35, 320, 380, 385-86, 405, 406

Kholodnaya, Vera, 183

Khristapson, 306

Khrushchev, Nikita, 43, 478, 487, 489, 499, 522, 524, 528, 536, 537

Kichanova, Irina, 496

Kinchev, Konstantin, 533

King Lear, 463-64

Kirill, Grand Duke, 194

Kirov, Sergei, xvi, 235, 413-15, 450, 457, 459, 495

Kirov Ballet, 501-04, 506

Kirov Theater, 489, 501-02, 505, 541. See also Maryinsky Theater

Kirstein, Lincoln, 307, 321, 327

Klyuchevsky, Vassily, 10, 11

Klyuev, Nikolai, 194

Knaifel, Alexander, 490

Knyazev, Vsevolod, 466, 468

Kochno, Boris, 315

Kokoschka, Oskar, 486

Kolpakova, Irina, 503

Konisskaya, Maria, 496

Konstantin, Grand Duke, 83, 106, 115

Kopelyan, Efim, 500

Kornilov, Boris, 457, 522

Korolenko, Vladimir, 51

Koroleva, Nina, 531

Koussevitzky, Serge, 435

Kozhukhova, Maria, 306

Kozintsev, Grigory, 301-03, 389-90, 454-56, 458, 459, 461, 463-65, 500

Kramskoy, Ivan, 82, 90, 492

Krasnaya gazeta (Red Gazette), 208-09, 393-94

Krivulin, Viktor, 522

Kruchenykh, Alexei, 270, 273, 276, 527