Natasha's Dance

TEXT ILLUSTRATIONS

1. Shifting the huge granite rock for the pedestal of The Bronze Horseman. Engraving after a drawing by A. P. Davydov, 1782

2. Seventeenth-century Muscovite costumes. Engraving from Adam Olearius, Travels to Muscovy and Persia (Hamburg: Schleswig, 1669)

3. The Sheremetev theatre at Ostankino. Photograph copyright © William C. Brumfield.

4. Gerard de la Barthe: A Cure Bath in Moscow, 1790. Pushkin Museum, Moscow (photo: AKG London)

5. The 'peasant prince': Sergei Volkonsky in Irkutsk. Daguerreotype by A. Lavignon, 1845 (photo: Novosti, London)

6. Alexei Venetsianov: Cleaning Beetroot, 1820. Copyright © 2002, State Russian Museum, St Petersburg/Petrushka, Moscow

7. A wet nurse in traditional Russian dress. Early-twentieth-century photograph. Private collection. Reproduced from Chloe Oblensky, The Russian Empire: A Portrait in Photographs (London: Jonathan Cape, 1979)

8. Monument to the millennium of Russia in the square in front of St Sophia's Cathedral, Novgorod. Photograph by Mikhail Mikeshin, early 1910s

9. Maria Volkonsky and her son Misha. Daguerreotype, 1862. Reproduced from Christine Sutherland, The Princess of Siberia: The Story of Maria Volkonsky and the Decembrist Exiles (London: Methuen, 1984)

10. Etienne-Maurice Falconet: The Bronze Horseman. Monument to Peter the Great, 1782 (photo: Hulton Archive, London)

11. Viktor Gartman: design tor the Kiev city gate (photo: Novosti/ Bridgeman Art Library, London)

12. Vladimir Shervud: Russian Museum, Red Square, Moscow. Photograph, early 1900s (photo: Alexander Meledin Collection/Mary Evans Picture Library, London)

13. Ilia Repin: sketches for The Volga Barge Haulers, 1870. National Gallery, Prague

14. Tolstoy's estate at Yasnaya Polyana. Late-nineteenth-century photograph

15. Elena Polenova: 'Cat and Owl' carved door, Abramtsevo workshop, early 1890s. Courtesy Izobrazitel'noe Iskusstvo, Moscow

16. Church at Abramtsevo. Designed by Viktor Vasnetsov, 1881-2. Photograph copyright © William C. Brumfield

17. Gusli player. Reproduced from Chloe Oblensky, The Russian Empire: A Portrait in Photographs (London: Jonathan Cape, 1979)

18. Nikolai Roerich: costumes for the Adolescents in the first production of The Rite of Spring, Paris, 1913 (photo: Lebrecht Collection, London)

19. Stravinsky transcribes a folk song sung by a peasant gusli player on the porch of the Stravinsky house at Ustilug, 1909 (photo: Fondation Theodore Strawinsky/Lebrecht Collection, London)

20. Hermits at a monastery in northern Russia (photo: Popperfoto, Northampton)

21. Group of Komi people in typical clothing. Photograph, c. 1912, by S. I. Sergei. Reproduced from L. N. Molotova, Folk Art of the Russian Federation from the Ethnographical Museum of the Peoples of the U.S.S.R. (Leningrad: Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1981)

22. Vasily Kandinsky: sketches of buildings in the Komi region. From the Vologda Diary, 1889. Centre Pompidou, Musee National d'Art Moderne, Paris. (Copyright © Photo CNAC/MNAM Dist. RMN) © AD AGP, Paris and DACS, London 2002

23. Masked Buriat shaman with drum, drumstick and horse-sticks. Photograph by Toumanoff, early 1900s

24. Watercolour copy of a lost self-portrait with Circassian sword and cloak by Mikhail Lermontov, 1837 (photo: Novosti, London)

25. Vladimir Stasov: study of the Russian letter 'B' from a fourteenth-century manuscript of Novgorod. Reproduced in Stasov, Russkii naroodnyi ornament, 1872) (photo copyright © British Library, London [ref. 7743])

26. Vladimir Stasov: title page of Rimsky-Korsakov's opera score Sadko, 1897. Photograph copyright © British Library, London [ref. G.1073.a]

27. Akhmatova and Punin in the courtyard of the Fountain House, 1927. Copyright © Museum of Anna Akhmatova in the Fountain House, St Petersburg

28. Liubov Popova: stage design for Meyerhold's 1922 production of the Magnanimous Cuckold. Tretyakov Gallery Moscow (photo: Bridgeman Art Library, London)

29. Alexander Rodchenko: 'To Her and Me', illustration from Mayakovsky's Pro eto, 1923. Private collection. © DACS 2002

30. 'The Russian house inside the Italian cathedral'. Final shot from Andrei Tarkovsky's Nostalgia, 1983 (photo: Ronald Grant Archive, London)

31. Sergei Efron and Marina Tsvetaeva, 1911. Courtesy Viktoria Schweitzer