St Petersburg

Kuindzhi, Arkhip, 83 Kukolnik, Nestor, 63, 66, 67

Kumpan, Elena, 531

Kurdov, Valentin, 495

Kushner, Alexander, 519-22, 543

Kustodiev, Boris, 283, 357-60

Kuzmin, Mikhail, 144, 150, 159-60, 166, 171, 173-74, 189-90, 233, 290, 293, 312, 317, 344, 471, 489

Kuzmina, Elena, 302

Kuzminsky, Konstantin, 513, 523, 528

Kuznetsov, Alexei, 440, 448

Lanceray, Yevgeny, 163, 171

Laroche, German, 98

Lavrovsky, Mikhail, 501

Lavrov, Kirill, 500

Lebedev, Vladimir, 184, 214, 494-97

Lebedev, Yevgeny, 500

Lebedinsky, Lev, 430

LeBlond, Alexandre Jean-Baptiste, 11

LeClerq, Tanaquil, 313

Lecouvreur, Adrienne, 312

Lenfilm studios, 454-56, 458-59, 463-64, 539

Lenin, Vladimir: attempted assassination of, 207-08; and Blok, 232, 236; and Bolshevik revolution, 203, 305; death of, 335-36, 340; and end of World War I, 206, 207-09; on films, 454; and Gumilyov’s arrest, 235, 236; as head of Bolshevik government, 205; on industrialization, 129; and move of capital from Petrograd to Moscow, xvi, 207-11, 338, 339, 446; New Economic Policy (NEP) of, 303-04, 308-09, 310; opposition to opera and ballet, 285-86; and Zinoviev, 338

Leningrad: award to, as “hero city,” 445-48; flooding of, 339-40; Great Terror in, xvi, xvii, 414-22, 441, 442, 459-60, 495-96, 522; Kharms on, 406; Kirov assassination in, 413-15; population of, 478; reactionary climate of, toward intellectual elite, 478-79; renamed St. Petersburg, 542-45; shift of talent to Moscow from, 446-47; Petrograd renamed as, 336-40; Stalin’s cultural deprivation of, after World War II, xvi, 449-54, 463, 465, 468-70, 538; Vaginov on, 406; after World War II, 445-54; in World War II, xvi, 105, 396-97, 425-29, 432-42, 445-47, 479, 489-90, 526. See also Petrograd; St. Petersburg

Leningrad Comedy Theater, 490-92, 499, 500

Leningrad Conservatory, 94, 254-55, 363-64, 366, 393, 425, 485, 489. See also Petersburg Conservatory

Leningrad Philharmonic, 306, 354-55, 427, 440, 453, 482-84, 488, 511

Leontiev, Leonid, 306

Lermontov, Mikhail, 25, 43, 199-200, 453, 471-72, 500, 524

Leschetitzky, Theodor, 360

Leskov, Nikolai, 176, 358, 408-09

Levinson, André, 197, 227-28, 292, 317, 319, 321

Liadov, Anatoly, 343, 348-50, 362

Ligachev, Yegor, 543 Ligovsky Prospect, 45

Likhachev, Dmitri, 438, 545

Liszt, Franz, 71, 73, 106, 360, 367

Literary hoaxes, 169-73

Literaturnaya gazeta (Literary Gazette), 510, 517

Litvinov, Maxim, 430

Livshits, Benedikt, 185, 186, 196, 274

Lokhvitskaya, Mirra, 167-68, 175

Lomonosov, Mikhail, 16

Lopukhov, Fyodor, 191, 254-55, 267, 292, 297-300, 305, 313-15, 408, 412, 414, 447, 501, 503, 506

Lopukhova, Lydia, 297

Loseff, Lev, 412, 466, 513, 520, 522, 540

Lotman, Yuri, 252

Lourié, Arthur, 185, 188-89, 191, 219, 233, 284

Lukashevich, Klavdia, 165-66

Lukin, Lev, 296

Lunacharsky, Anatoly, 203-06, 208, 210-13, 227, 228, 231, 232, 281, 286, 403

Lunts, Lev, 376

Lvov, Alexei, 72-73

Lysenko, Nikolai, 343

Lyubov and Silin, 490

Magazines. See names of specific magazines

Mahler, Gustav, 147, 355, 485

Makarova, Natalya, 507, 541

Makovsky, Konstantin, 104-05

Makovsky, Sergei, 169-72

Makovsky, Vladimir, 94

Malakhovskaya, Natalya, 531

Malevich, Casimir, xix, 270, 271, 276-81, 283, 315, 367, 369, 394-96, 411-12, 486

Malko, Nikolai, 345, 349, 354-55, 357

Mamonova, Tatyana, 531

Mandelstam, Nadezhda, 191-92

Mandelstam, Osip: and Akhmatova, 176, 179, 207, 241, 481; and ballet, 290; Brodsky’s essay on, 516; Communist view of, 318; compared with Brodsky, 515; death of, 528, 537; on European humanistic legacy, 545; on “fragile Europeans,” 146, 191; and House of the Arts, 380-81, 384-85; on “longing for world culture,” 519, 527; in Moscow, 447; on Petersburg, 221-24, 383, 386-87, 461; poetry of, 179, 220, 223, 317, 381-82, 447, 481, 548; rehabilitation of, 489, 538-59; on Rozanov, 404; on Shklovsky, 289; on Shvarts’s children’s books, 498; and Stray Dog, 195; on Tyshler, 184; on Vaginov, 405; during World War I, 207; and Zoshchenko, 383

Mandelstam, Roald, 528

Maramzin, Vladimir, 517, 541

Markov, Vladimir. See Matvejs, Voldemar

Marshak, Samuil, 492-96

Martin, John, 70

Martyanov, Nikolai, 207 Martynov, Andrei, 60

Marx, Adolf, 155-56

Maryinsky Theater, 64-65, 69, 78, 96, 98, 121-24, 147-49, 171-72, 192, 193, 204, 247-48, 255, 260, 267, 268, 285-86, 294, 297, 299, 303, 305, 308, 310-13, 315-16, 319, 340, 351, 483, 489, 503, 541, 543, 546

Massie, Robert K., 327

Masters of Analytical Art, 395, 398

Matiushin, Mikhail, xix, 270, 276, 278, 288, 369, 395—work: Victory Over the Sun, 274, 276-78, 280, 394, 527

Matov, Alexei, 310

Matvejs, Voldemar, 282

Maupassant, Guy de, 94, 166, 176, 294

Maxim’s Youth, 458, 459

May, Karl, 122

Mayakovsky, Vladimir, 177, 187, 205, 212, 236, 239, 270-76, 281-84, 288, 291, 307, 317-18, 471, 527—works: A Cloud in Trousers, 286-87, 315; Mystery-Bouffe, 271, 283, 286; Vladimir Mayakovsky, 273-76, 288-89, 394

Meek, Nadezhda von, 114, 126

Medtner, Nikolai, 296

Melngailis, Emils, 343

Menshikov, Alexander, 7, 12-13, 46, 520