St Petersburg

Merezhkovsky, Dmitri, 127-28, 135, 151-52, 155-56, 158, 168-69, 215, 536

Merzlyakov, Alexei, 541

Meyerhold, Vsevolod, xv, xix, 147, 159-60, 190, 199, 201, 202, 205, 269-71, 274, 281, 283-85, 293-94, 302, 307, 309, 315, 316, 371, 471-72, 500, 502

Mezentsov, 91

Mighty Five, 78-79, 81, 83, 96-99, 102, 107, 109, 126, 343, 348, 349, 356, 467

Mikhail, Grand Duke, 73, 94

Mikhailov, Mikhail, 268-69

Mikhailovsky Palace, 21-22, 91, 95

Mikhnov-Voitenko, Yevgeny, 529

Mikoyan, Anastas, 509-10

Milashevsky, Vladimir, 224, 287, 293, 446

Milhaud, Darius, 370, 371

Milstein, Nathan, xix, 74, 149, 155, 312, 329, 361-63, 364, 368

Milyutin, Dmitri, 92

Mining Institute poets, 521-22

Minkus, Ludwig, 259-60, 318

Mir iskusstva (World of Art), xi, xv, 78, 128, 130-36, 138, 147, 149, 150, 163, 169, 181, 183, 185, 186, 193, 205, 214, 215, 220, 221, 223, 249, 250, 260-64, 282, 297, 317, 323, 329, 357-58, 412, 413, 487, 489

Mirsky, D. S., 157, 289, 317, 374, 387

Mitki, 530-31, 534

Mitrokhin, Dmitri, 495

Miturich, Pyotr, 184, 185-86, 280

Modigliani, Amedeo, 162-63

Morozov, Savva, 131

Moscow: Lenin’s move of capital to, xvi, 207-11, 338, 339, 446; and Peter the Great, 8, 9, 209, 210; shift of talent from Leningrad to, 446-47; Shostakovich’s move to, 463; and Slavophiles, 31-32

Motion pictures. See Films

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 76, 118, 213, 367, 392, 467, 511, 530

Mozartiana, 260, 329

Mravinsky, Yevgeny, 74, 305-06, 422, 423, 429, 483-85, 546

Munch, Edvard, 305

Mussorgsky, Modest, xii, 54, 75, 77-80, 83-90, 96-98, 102-03, 105-08, 118, 148, 343, 347, 356, 395, 489, 511, 520—works: Boris Godunov, 54, 84, 85, 86, 96, 98, 102, 106, 107, 108, 356, 488; “Forgotten,” 103, 105, 106; Khovanshchina, 84-85, 108, 118, 356; Marriage, 79, 80, 108, 389; Pictures at an Exhibition, 86, 103, 106; Songs and Dances of Death, 106, 116; Sunless, 88, 105

Myaskovsky, Nikolai, 149, 343, 351, 463

Nabokov, Vladimir, xviii, 30, 33, 147, 215, 320-26, 330, 523, 525, 536, 539-40—work: Speak, Memory, 323, 324-26, 380, 387, 516, 526

Nabokov, Vladimir (father), 204, 320

Nadson, Semyon, 94

Nagrodskaya, Eudoxia, 165-66

Napoleon, 22, 100, 113, 164, 449

Naumenko, Mikhail (“Mike”), 532, 535

Nayman, Anatoly, 481, 510, 521

Nekrasov, Nikolai, 36-37, 38, 45, 61

Neoclassicism, 316-19, 321, 362-63, 492

NEP. See New Economic Policy (NEP)

Nevsky Pickwickians, 122-26

Nevsky Prospect, xxi, 11, 26, 28-29, 39, 44, 45, 60, 61, 111, 112, 145-47, 150, 161, 197, 200, 202, 227, 269, 304, 307, 380, 382-83, 398, 447, 491, 493, 504, 524

New Economic Policy (NEP), 303-04, 308-09, 310

New York City Ballet, 70, 261, 306, 330, 368, 504-05, 507

Newspapers. See specific newspapers

Nicholas and Alexandra, 327

Nicholas I, 21, 24-30, 32-33, 40-43, 45, 61-62, 68, 72, 73, 75, 78, 81, 82, 99-101, 122, 137, 145, 236-37, 251-52, 256, 403

Nicholas II, 95, 129, 144-46, 153-54, 192, 194, 195, 198-99, 202, 216, 248, 256, 337, 397

Nietzsche, Friedrich, 53, 132, 403

Nihilism, 47-48, 81, 90-95, 131, 138, 460, 547

Nijinsky, Vaslav, 149, 191, 202, 265, 292, 501

Nikisch, Arthur, 147

Nikolayev, Leonid, 306, 363-64, 366

Nono, Luigi, 367

Nouvel, Walter, 122, 150

Novoye vremya, 127, 153-54

Nureyev, Rudolf, 502-04, 507, 541

Nutcracker, 137, 204, 256, 258, 297, 330

Oberiuts, 391-94, 397, 405, 412, 417, 486, 489, 493, 496, 530, 531, 537, 539

Oblakov, Andrei, 303

Oborin, Lev, 340

Ogonyok (Little Flame), 155, 165

Oleinikov, Nikolai, 390-91, 397, 493, 539

Opera. See specific composers

Opoyaz, 288-90, 344, 371, 386, 453, 455, 482

Osipenko, Alia, 503

Ouspensky, P. D., 281

Overcoat, The, 455-56, 459

Palace Square, 22, 42, 92, 195, 213, 214, 545

Panov, Valery, 504

Paramonov, Boris, 513

Pasternak, Boris, 166, 273-74, 275, 339, 340, 366, 367, 405, 464, 469

Paul I, 21, 137

Pavlova, Anna, xv, 149, 258, 292, 471, 492, 501

PBO case, 234-36

People’s Comedy, 284-85, 308

Perestroika, 411, 516, 535, 536

Perrot, Jules, 257

Peter and Paul Fortress, 12, 40-41, 47, 213, 541

Peter the Great: alcohol use by, 520; Brodsky on, 515-16; Chemiakin’s monument to, 541-42; Dostoyevsky on, 51-52; founding of St. Petersburg by, xi, xiii-xiv, 6, 9-12, 195, 210, 249, 337; in literature, 215, 218, 397; as monarch, 7-16, 31, 32, 49, 125; and Moscow, 8, 9, 209, 210; Nicholas II on, 195; Pushkin on, 12; and railroads, 67; Stalin on, 452; Tchaikovsky’s and Benois’s interest in, 137; wax figure of, 388, 541. See also Bronze Horseman

Peterburgskaya gazeta, 153, 192

Petersburg. See Leningrad; Petrograd; St. Petersburg

Petersburg Conservatory, 74, 80, 111, 123, 149, 189, 253, 305-06, 343-45, 350-54, 360-66, 393. See also Leningrad Conservatory; Petrograd Conservatory

Petersburg Philharmonic, 546

Petersburg school of composition, 341-42, 352, 355-57, 363, 369, 487

Petipa, Marius, 124, 252, 256-60, 297-98, 305, 315, 317, 318-19, 327-28, 351

Petkevich, Inga, 531

Petrashevsky, Mikhail, 39-41, 43, 48