Natasha's Dance

CHAPTER OPENERS

1. Benjamin Paterssen: Vue de la grande parade au Palais de l'Empereur

Alexandre 1er a St Petersburg, c. 1803. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

2. Adolphe Ladurnier: View of the White Hall in the Winter Palace,

St Petersburg, 1838. State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg/

Petrushka, Moscow

3. St Basil's Cathedral, Red Square, Moscow, during the late nineteenth

century (photo: David King Collection, London)

4. A typical one-street village in central Russia, c. 1910. Photograph

by Netta Peacock. Victoria Albert Museum Picture Library,

London

5. Natalia Goncharova: backdrop design for The Firebird (1916)

Victoria Albert Museum Picture Library, London

6. Scvthian figures: late nineteenth-centurv archaeological engraving

List of Illustrations and Photographic Acknowledgements

7. Anna Akhmatova at the Fountain House. Copyright © Museum of Anna Akhmatova in the Fountain House, St Petersburg

8. Igor and Vera Stravinsky arriving at Sheremetevo Airport in Moscow, 21 September 1962. Reproduced from Igor and Vera Stravinsky, A Photograph Album 1921-1971 (London: Thames Hudson, 1982)