St Petersburg

Petrograd: Akhmatova’s identification with, xvii, 221-25, 240-43; Bolshevik

Petrograd, 202-24, 336-37; after Bolshevik revolution, 211-14, 225-27; Bolshevik revolution in, 202-07, 336-37; as center of avantgarde movement, 369-71; first celebration of Bolshevik revolution in, 212-13; Lenin’s move of capital to Moscow from, xvi, 207-11, 338, 339, 446; population of, 211; renaming of, to Leningrad, 336-40; St. Petersburg renamed as, 195-96, 337, 339; in World War I, 195-200, 206-09. See also Leningrad; St. Petersburg

Petrograd Conservatory, 305-06, 352-53. See also Petersburg Conservatory

Petrouchka, 137, 261, 263-66, 295, 316, 326, 348, 471, 489

Petrov, Andrei, 487

Petrov-Vodkin, Kuzma, 185, 293, 307, 395

Pilnyak, Boris, 431

Piotrovsky, Adrian, 399

Pisarev, Dmitri, 51, 81-82

Plisetskaya, Maya, 506-07

Polivanov, Yevgeny, 288

Polonsky, Yakov, 94

Ponomarev, Vladimir, 306

Popov, Valery, 526

Porcelain production, 282-83

Potemkin, Grigory, 17

Pravda, 157, 232, 410-11, 433, 434, 436, 496

Preobrazhenskaya, Olga, 258

Prokofiev, Sergei, 74, 79, 80, 149, 150, 296, 311, 315, 318, 341, 345-56, 360, 364, 369, 370, 422, 451, 453, 463, 489, 501, 511

Proletarian culture, 372-73, 411

Pronin, Boris, 186, 187

Propper, Solomon, 154-55

Proust, Marcel, 215, 320, 523

Pseudoclassicism, 362

Publishing. See Book market; Children’s literature; and names of specific magazines and newspapers

Pudovkin, Vsevolod, 459

Pugni, Cesare, 259

Pulcinella, 316, 362

Punin, Nikolai, xxiii-xxiv, 184-86, 212, 270, 279-82, 284, 369-70, 415-16, 449, 452, 469, 497

Pushkin, Alexander: alcohol use by, 520; on Alexander I, 22; Blok’s speech on, 231-32, 239; on Catherine the Great, 17; Communists’ view of, 319; compared with Dostoevsky, 54; compared with Glinka, 342-43; death of, 25, 30, 43; Dostoyevsky on, 126; duel of, 172; on ethnic groups, 101; on founding of St. Petersburg, 11; life of, 3-4, 15; and Nabokov, 320, 322-23; and Nicholas I, 24-25, 236-37; operas based on works of, 54, 76, 77, 319, 371, 467-68; on Peter the Great, 12, 13, 15-16, 25; on Petersburg, 542; Pisarev on, 81; quotations from, in Poem Without a Hero, 473; reputation of, in Stalinist Russia, xv; Zoshchenko on, 383—works: The Bronze Horseman, xii-xiv, 4-6, 7, 16, 23-25, 25n, 30, 34, 35, 52, 53, 120, 121, 125, 135-36, 216, 275, 287, 310, 336, 340, 388, 397, 424-25, 448-49, 466, 470, 472, 475, 524, 547; Eugene Onegin, 322-23, 476; The Queen of Spades, 119-21, 135, 294; “To the Slanderers of Russia,” 100-01 Pushkin, Alexander I., 503-04, 507

Pushkin, Natalie, 30

Rachmaninoff, Sergei, 76, 262, 305, 363, 367

Radlov, Sergei, 283, 284-85, 308, 311, 315, 502

Ragtime, 316, 328

RAPM. See Russian Association of Proletarian Musicians (RAPM)

RAPP. See Russian Association of Proletarian Writers (RAPP)

Rasputin, Grigory, 194, 197, 198, 327, 454

Rastrelli, Carlo, 541

Rastrelli, Francesco, 15

Ravel, Maurice, 86, 88, 110, 341, 356, 429

Raymonda, 256, 305, 351

Razin, Stepan, 152

Realism. See Socialist realism

Rein, Yevgeny, 481, 488, 510, 521

Rekshan, Vladimir, 532

Religious-Philosophical Society, 150-51, 158

Remizov, Alexei, 392-93

Repin, Ilya, 83, 89, 94, 96-97

Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai: in Belyaev Circle, 349-50; death of, 150; and Historical Russian Concerts, 262; music by, 77-79, 311, 340, 341, 346-47, 353; and Mussorgsky, 87, 356; on orchestration, 353; on Oriental motifs, 102; on Prince Igor, 107-08; private life of, 395; as professor of Petersburg Conservatory, 150, 189, 343-45; and Prokofiev, 352. 353; and Shostakovich, 341, 353. 355; significance and popularity of, 150, 341-42, 489; Richard Strauss on, 348; and Stravinsky, 149-50, 341, 344-45, 350, 352-53; students of, 253, 343-46, 348, 350; Turgenev on, 97

Rock movement, 532-35

Roerich, Nikolai, 64

Rokhlin, Vadim, 529

Romanov, Boris, 191

Romanov, Grigory, 535-36

Romeo and Juliet (ballet), 311, 501

Rossi, Carlo, 42-43, 251, 254, 283

Rostopchina, Countess Eudoxia, 164

Rostovtsev, Mikhail, xv

Rozanov, Vassily, 184, 403-04, 407

Ruban, Vassily, 20

Rubinstein, Anton, 73-74, 80, 111, 253, 304, 360

Rukhin, Yevgeny, 529

Russian Association of Proletarian Musicians (RAPM), 372, 373

Russian Association of Proletarian Writers (RAPP), 372, 411

Russian Museum, xi, 95, 216, 411

Russian Orthodox Church, 51, 101, 150-51, 366, 368, 511, 543

Russian revolution of 1905, 144, 145-46

Russian Revolution of 1917, 65, 94, 202-07, 281, 313, 336-40, 405; fiftieth anniversary of, 326-27

Russo-Japanese War, 144-45

Russo-Turkish War, 133

Saar, Mart, 343

Sadovnikov, Vassily, 60

St. Isaac’s Cathedral, 22, 42, 222