Natasha's Dance

COLOUR PLATE SECTION 1

1. Nikolai Argunov: Portrait ofPraskovya Sheremeteva, 1802. Copyright © 2002, State Museum of Ceramics and XVIII Century Estate, Kuskovo/Petrushka, Moscow

2. Vasily Tropinin: Portrait of Pushkin, 1827. Pushkin Museum, Moscow (photo: AKG London)

3. Alexei Venetsianov: Morning of the Lady of the Manor, 1823. Copyright © 2002, State Russian Museum, St Petersburg/Petrushka, Moscow

4. Alexei Venetsianov: In the Ploughed Field: Spring, 1827. State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow (photo: Bridgeman Art Library, London)

5. Vasily Perov: Hunters at Rest, 1871. State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow (photo: Bridgeman Art Library, London)

6. Interior of the Terem Palace, the Kremlin, Moscow, restored by Fedor Solntsev (photo: Novosti, London)

7. Vasily Surikov: The Boyar's Wife Morozova, 1 884. State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow (photo: Scala, Florence)

8. Imperial Presentation Kovsh by Mikhail Perkin for Faberge, 1906. Copyright © Phototheque de la Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Paris

9. Siren vase by Sergei Vashkov for Faberge, 1908. Copyright © 2002, State Historical Museum, Moscow/Petrushka, Moscow

10. Ilia Repin: Portrait of Vladimir Stasov, 1873. Copyright © 2002, State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

11. Ilia Repin: The Volga Barge Haulers, 1873. Copyright © 2002, State Russian Museum, St Petersburg/Petrushka, Moscow

12. Ivan Kramskoi: The Peasant Ignatiy Pirogov, 1874. Copyright © 2002, Kiev Museum of Russian Art, Kiev, Ukraine/Petrushka, Moscow

13. Leon Bakst: Portrait of Diaghilev with His Nanny, 1906. Copyright © 2002, State Russian Museum, St Petersburg/Petrushka, Moscow

14. Original score by Igor Stravinsky for The Rite of Spring, 1913. Private Collection (photo: Bridgeman Art Library, London). Copyright 1912, 1921 by Hawkes Son (London) Ltd. Reproduced by permission of Boosey Hawkes Music Publishrs Ltd

15. Viktor Vasnetsov: set design for Mamontov's production of Rimsky-Korsakov's opera The Snow Maiden at Abramtsevo, 1881 (photo: Novosti, London)

16. Nikolai Roerich's set and costumes for The Rite of Spring, reproduced by the Joffrey Ballet for its revival of the original ballet in 1987. (Copyright © Herbert Migdoll

17. Nikolai Roerich: The Idols, 1901. Copyright © 2002, State Russian Museum, St Petersburg/Petrushka, Moscow

18. Nikolai Roerich: costume designs for The Snow Maiden, 1921, lor the Chicago Opera Company production, 1922. Courtesy Nicholas Roerich Museum, New York

19. Vasily Kandinsky: Motley Life, 1907. Copyright © Stadtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich © ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2002

10. Vasily Kandinsky: All Saints II, 1911. Copyright © Stadtische

Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich © ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2002

21. Vasily Kandinsky: Oval No. 2, 1925. Centre Pompidou, Musee National d'Art Moderne, CCI, Paris. (Copyright © Photo CNAC/ MNAM l)isr.RMN)(0 AD AGP, Paris and DACS, London 2002

22. Shaman bird head dress, cedar wood, first half of nineteenth century. From the collection of Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera), Russian Academy of Sciences, St Petersburg

23. Isaak Levitan: Vladimirka, 1 892. State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow (photo: Scala, Florence)

24. Vasily Vereshchagin: Surprise Attack, 1871 (photo: Christie's Images, London)

25. Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin: Bathing the Red Horse, 1912. State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow (photo: Scala, Florence)

26. Kazimir Malevich: Red Cavalry, 1930. State Russian Museum, St Petersburg (photo: Scala, Florence)

27. Natan Altman: Portrait of Anna Akhmatova, 1914. Copyright © 2002, State Russian Museum, St Petersburg/Petrushka, Moscow © DACS 2002

Notes on the Maps and Text

Place names indicated in the maps are those used in Russia before 1917. Soviet names are given in the text where appropriate. Since 1991, most Russian cities have reverted to their pre-revolutionary names.

Russian names are spelled in this book according to the standard (Library of Congress) system of transliteration, but common English spellings of well-known Russian names (Tolstoy and Tchaikovsky, or the Tsar Peter, for example) are retained. To aid pronounciation some Russian names (Vasily, for example) are slightly changed (in this case, from Vasilii).