Playing with Fire

ENDNOTES

ABBREVIATIONS

AnthLBL

Luchi Bozhestvennoj Lyubvi (Rays of Divine Love), ed. Anatoli Kuznetsov, Moscow and St Petersburg, 1999

AnthMYSVM

Maria Venyaminovna Yudina, Stat’i, Vospominaniya, Materialy (Maria Yudina, Articles, Reminiscences, Materials), ed. Anatoli Kuznetsov, Moscow, 1978

AnthNevel’IV

Nevelski Sborniki (Nevel’ Collections), from various years, Akropl, St Petersburg, 1999

AnthPlSe

Plameneyushcheye Serdtse: Maria Yudina v vospominaniyakh sovremennikov (The Flaming Heart: Reminiscences of Maria Yudina by her Contemporaries), ed. Anatoli Kuznetsov, St Petersburg Centre of Humanitarian Initiatives, 2009

AnthRRCB

Routledge Research Companion to Bach

AnthSLK

Shostakovich v Leningradskoj Konservatorii (Shostakovich at the Leningrad Conservatoire), vol. 3

AnthVY

Vspominaya Yudinu (Remembering Yudina), ed. A. Kuznetsov, Moscow, 2008

AnthVSChM

Vy Spasyotes’ cherez muzyku (You Will Be Saved Through Music), ed. A. Kuznetsov, Moscow, 2005

CCorr1

Complete Correspondence, vol. 1, Maria Yudina, Vyskokij Stoiki dukh (The Lofty Resilient Spirit), 1918–1945

CCorr2

Complete Correspondence, vol. 2, Maria Yudina, Obrechyonnnaya Abstraktsii, simvolike, i besplotnosti muzyke (Doomed to Abstraction, Symbolism and Disembodied Music), 1946–1955

CCorr3

Complete Correspondence, vol. 3, Maria Yudina, Zhizn polna smysla (Life Is Full of Meaning), 1956–1959

CCorr4

Complete Correspondence, vol. 4, Maria Yudina, V Iskusstve Radostno Byt’ Vmeste (The Joy of Togetherness in Art), 1959–1961

CCorr5

Complete Correspondence, vol. 5, Maria Yudina, Dukh Dyshit, Gde Khochet (The Spirit Breathes Where It Wills), 1962–1963

CCorr6

Complete Correspondence, vol. 6, Maria Yudina, Nereal’nost’ Zla (The Unreality of Evil), 1964–1966

CCorr7

Complete Correspondence, vol. 7, Maria Yudina, Pred litsom Vechnosti (Before the Face of Eternity), 1967–1970

CorrBPOF

Correspondence of Boris Pasternak and Olga Freidenberg 1910–1954, compiled by Mossman, Secker & Warburg, London, 1982

CorrMYPS

Maria Youdina–Pierre Souvtchinsky: Correspondance et Documents (1959–1970), ed. Jean-Pierre Collot, Contrechamps éditions, 2020

CorrShostakovich MIVL

Mne ispolnilos vosemnatsats lyet! Pis’ma D.D. Shostakovicha – L.N. Oborinu (I am now eighteen! Letters from D.D. Shostakovich to L.N. Oborin) in Vstrechi s Proshlym (Encounters with the Past), ed. M.G. Kozlova, Moscow: Sovetskaya Rossia, 1984

INTRODUCTION

1. Berdyaev, The Meaning of the Creative Act, p. 225.

2. Blazhennyj Ioann: Fortepiannoye Evangel Marii Veniaminovny Yudinoj (The Piano Gospel of Maria Yudina) Kiev 2012.

3. Maria Youdina–Pierre Souvtchinsky, Correspondence et Documents 1959–1970, Paris: Contretemps, 2019.

1 CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH: NEVEL’, PETROGRAD

1. AnthLBL, p. 25; Bakhtin, ‘Iskusstvo i Otvestvennost’, p. 1.

2. AnthLBL, p. 95.

3. AnthPlSe, p. 6.

4. Ibid, pp. 5–6.

5. AnthLBL, p. 604.

6. AnthVY, pp. 61–2.

7. Ibid.

8. AnthMYSVM, p. 17.

9. Drozdova, Uroki Yudinoj, p. 14.

10. AnthPlSe, pp. 94–7.

11. Ibid.

12. AnthLBL, p. 110.

13. Ibid. p. 111.

14. Ibid.

15. AnthPlSe, p. 26.

16. AnthLBL, Nevel’ Diary, p. 25.

17. Ibid, pp. 91–5.

18. AnthPlSe, p. 60.

19. AnthLBL, pp. 91–5.

20. Ibid.

21. Ibid.

22. Ibid.

23. Ibid.

24. Ibid.

25. AnthPlSe, p. 26.

26. AnthLBL, p. 26.

27. AnthLBL, p. 94.

28. Ibid, pp. 45–82.

29. Ibid, p. 45.

30. Ibid, p. 47.

31. Ibid, p. 47.

32. Ibid, p. 48.

33. Ibid, p. 58.

34. Ibid, p. 49, p. 59.

35. Ibid, p. 52.

36. Ibid, p. 65.

37. Ibid, pp. 77–8.

38. Ibid, p. 80.

39. Berdyaev, The Meaning of the Creative Act, p. 178.

40. Ibid, p. 173.

41. AnthVY, p. 16.

42. AnthLBL, p. 606.

43. Ibid, p. 616.

44. Ibid, p. 617.

45. Ibid, p. 616.

46. Ibid, p. 617.

47. Ibid, p. 625.

48. Ibid, p. 21.

49. Ibid, p. 606.

50. Shatskikh, Vitebsk: The Life of Art, p. 290.

51. Ibid, pp. 94–5.

52. Ibid.

53. AnthLBL, p. 621.

54. Ibid.

55. Ibid, p. 622.

56. Ibid, p. 621.

2 1919–1927: BAPTISM, UNIVERSITY STUDIES, PHILOSOPHICAL CIRCLES

1. Alexander Blok, Stikhotvoreniya,Poemy. Roza i Krest (Verses, Long Poems. The Rose and the Cross), Moscow: Khudozhestvennaya Literatura, 1974, p. 211.

2. AnthLBL, p. 105.

3. AnthVY, p. 108.

4. Ibid, p. 59.

5. Ibid.

6. Ibid, p. 85.

7. AnthLBL, p. 112.

8. Shaporina, Dnevnik, vol. 1, p. 64.

9. AnthLBL, p. 113.

10. Shaporina, Dnevnik, vol. 1, p. 70.

11. Sheila Fitzpatrick, thesis, ‘The Commissariat of Education under Lunacharsky’, 1917–1921, University of Oxford, 1969.

12. CorrBPOF, p. 58.

13. Haight, Akhmatova: A Poetic Pilgrimage, p. 57.

14. AnthLBL, p. 110.

15. Ibid.

16. Berberova, The Italics Are Mine, p. 123.

17. Ibid, p. 125.

18. AnthLBL, pp. 111–12.

19. Ibid.

20. Hemschemer, The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova, p. 263.

21. AnthLBL, p. 113.

22. Ibid, p. 107.

23. Ibid.

24. Ruben, The Life and Thought of Lev Karsavin, p. 104.

25. Ibid, p. 105.

26. AnthVY, p. 83.

27. Ibid, p. 88.

28. Ibid.

29. AnthLBL, p. 160.

30. CCorr1 Yudina–Zhirmunsky, 29 January 1921.

31. AnthVSChM, p. 7.

32. AnthLBL, p. 105.

33. Ibid.

34. Likhachov, Mysli o Zhizni, p. 120.

35. Bakhtin, Lichnost’ i tvorchestvo.

36. Likhachov, Mysli o Zhizni, p. 120.

37. Ibid.

38. Ibid, p. 221.

39. Ibid, pp. 225–6.

40. CCorr1 Yudina–Rimsky-Korsakov, second half of 1924.

41. CCorr1 Yudina–Kazanovich, October 1924.

42. Clark and Holquist, Mikhail Bakhtin, p. 107.

43. Drozdova, M. Yudina Religioznaya Sud’ba, p. 46.

44. CCorr1 Yudina–Kazanovich, n.d. 1926.

45. Clark and Holquist, Mikhail Bakhtin, p. 114.

46. Vaginov, Kozlinaya Pesnya, p. 15.

47. Chamberlain, The Philosophy Steamer, p. 45.

48. CCorr1 Yudina–Kazanovich, October 1924.

49. CCorr1 Yudina–Rimsky-Korsakov, second half of 1924.

50. CCorr1 Yudina–Kazanovich, October 1924.

51. CCorr6 Yudina–Father Gerasim Prokofiev, 22 January 1965.

52. AnthLBL, pp. 642–50.

53. Ibid.

54. Ibid.

55. Pyman, Florensky: A Quiet Genius, p. 146.

56. AnthLBL, p. 158.

57. Ibid, p. 568.

58. Filippov, ‘Iz Proshlogo’, pp. 198–9.

59. Filippov, ‘Ob Ordene Russkoi Intelligentsii’.

60. AnthPlSe, pp. 160–1.

61. Filippov, ‘Iz Proshlogo’, pp. 198–9.

62. Ibid.

3 1921–1927: GRADUATION AND START OF A MUSICAL CAREER

1. Vladimir Favorsky, Ob iskusstve, o knige, o gravyure, Moscow: Kniga, 1986.

2. Pyman, Florensky: A Quiet Genius, p. 143.

3. Bogdanov-Berezovsky, ‘Yunost’ Novoi Kulturoji’, pp. 70–1.

4. CorrShostakovich MIVL Shostakovich–Oborin, 17 April 1925.

5. AnthMYSVM, p. 106.

6. Ibid.

7. Drozdova, Uroki Yudinoi, p. 14.

8. AnthMYSVM, p. 40.

9. Ibid.

10. AnthLBL, p. 114.

11. AnthMYSVM, p. 39.

12. Zhizn Iskusstva, 11 July 1921.

13. AnthLBL, p. 700.

14. Drozdova, Uroki Yudinoi, pp. 30–1.

15. Ibid, pp. 696–700.

16. AnthMYSVM, p. 40.

17. Savshinsky, Leonid Nikolaev Pianist, Kompozitor, Pedagog, p. 115.

18. Drozdova, Uroki Yudinoi, p. 41.

19. CCorr1 Yudina–Mikhoels, 27 March 1945.

20. Drozdova, Uroki Yudinoi, pp. 40–2.

21. Ibid.

22. AnthLBL, p. 298.

23. Ibid.

24. AnthVY, p. 26.

25. Ibid, p. 32.

26. Ibid.

27. Poret, Zapiski, Risunki, Vospominaniya, p. 156.

28. Documentary, Portret Legendarnoj Pianistki.

29. CCorr1 Yudina–Kazanovich, August 1923.

30. Vlasova, ‘Vy zhdyote Verdi’.

31. Ibid.

32. Bogdanov-Berezovsky, Dorogi Isskustva, pp. 99–100.

33. Poret, Zapiski, Risunki, Vospominaniya, p. 158.

34. Documentary, Portret Legendarnoj Pianistki.

35. AnthLBL, p. 148.

36. Poret, Zapiski, Risunki, Vospominaniya, p. 156.

37. CCorr1 Yudina–Nikolayev, 21 August 1922.

38. Ibid.

39. CCorr1 Yudina–Nikolayev, March 1925.

40. AnthPlSe, p. 34.

41. Ibid.

42. CCorr1 Yudina–Steinberg, 31 January 1925.

43. AnthVY, p. 100.

44. Ibid.

45. Ibid, p. 180.

46. AnthLBL, p. 99.

47. Ibid.

48. Ibid, pp. 98–9.

49. Ibid.

50. Drozdova, M. Yudina Religioznaya Sud’ba, p.7.

51. AnthLBL, p. 21.

52. Klemperer, Minor Recollections, p. 58.

53. Zhizn Iskusstva, no. 11, March 1924.

54. AnthSLK, vol. III, p. 375.

55. Ibid.

56. Ibid, p. 363.

57. AnthLBL, p. 169.

58. Ibid, p. 168.

59. Fairclough, Classics for the Masses, pp. 123–7.

60. AnthLBL, p. 297.

61. Ibid, p. 219.

62. Berchenko, V Poiskakh Utrachennogo Smysla.

63. Ibid, pp. 146–8.

64. Ibid, pp. 160–5.

65. Ibid, pp. 172–5.

66. AnthVY, p. 127.

67. Drozdova, Uroki Yudinoi, p. 45.

4 1928–1933: LENINGRAD–MOSCOW VIA TBILISI

1. CCorr1 Yudina–Shaporin, 11 July 1929.

2. Drozdova, M. Yudina Religioznaya Sud’ba, pp. 79–80.

3. Antsiferov, Iz dum o Bylom, p. 327.

4. Ibid, pp. 336–7.

5. AnthLBL, pp. 152–3.

6. See Marina Frolova-Walker and Jonathan Walker, Music and Soviet Power, for detailed information on RAPM and ASM.

7. CCorr1 Yudina–Shaporin, 11 July 1929.

8. Ibid.

9. Ibid, 16–17 July 1929.

10. Ibid.

11. Ibid.

12. CCorr1 Yudina–Gnesin, 30 August 1929.

13. Ibid.

14. CCorr1 Supplement to the year 1929.

15. CCorr1 fn Yudina–Gnesin, 16 April 1930.

16. AnthLBL, pp. 187–96.

17. Letter to EW from Josephine Pasternak, and AnthLBL, pp. 312–13.

18. Ibid.

19. CCorr1 Yudina–Gnesin, 22 January 1930.

20. CCorr1 Yudina–Mashirov, 11 March 1930.

21. Drozdova, M. Yudina Religioznaya Sud’ba, p. 81.

22. CCorr1 appendix to letter 121.

23. Ibid.

24. TsGALI archive. Fond 298, Op. 2, D. 37.

25. Ibid.

26. Drozdova, M. Yudina Religioznaya Sud’ba, pp. 84–5.

27. CCorr1 Yudina–Skrzhinskaya, 24 November 1930.

28. Ibid, 6 December 1930.

29. CCorr1 Yudina–Gnesin, 22 January 1930.

30. AnthLBL, pp. 128–9.

31. Ibid.

32. CCorr1 Yudina–Shaporin, 14 December 1930.

33. AnthLBL, p. 129.

34. CCorr1 Yudina–Skrzhinskaya, 7 and 8–10 May 1931.

35. Ibid.

36. Ibid.

37. AnthLBL, p. 200.

38. Ibid.

39. Ibid.

40. Ibid, p. 129.

41. Ibid, p. 130.

42. Ibid, pp. 180–2.

43. Ibid.

44. Ibid, p. 650.

45. AnthVY, p. 86.

46. CCorr1 Yudina–Skrzhinskaya, 13–28 November 1931.

47. LBL.

48. AnthLBL, pp. 134–5.

49. Ibid.

50. Ibid.

51. AnthVY, p. 87.

52. CCorr1 Yudina–Skrzhinskaya, 30 December 1931.

53. Popov, Iz Literaturnovo Naslediya, p. 245.

54. CCorr1 Yudina–Aslanishvili, September 1932.

55. CCorr1 Yudina–Zalesky, 29 August 1932.

56. CCorr1 Yudina–Braudo, 5 November 1932.

57. CCorr1 Yudina–Skrzhinskaya, 31 December 1932.

58. Ibid, 25 February 1933.

59. Ibid, 11 February 1933.

60. Ibid, 19 February 1933.

61. AnthLBL, p. 150.

62. CCorr1 Yudina–Skrzhinskaya, 11–25 April 1933.

63. Shostakovich–Yavorsky, 25 February 1927.

64. Sergei Prokofiev Diaries 1924–1933, p. 519.

65. Ibid, p. 1,063.

66. CCorr1 Yudina–Skrzhinskaya, 23 July 1933.

5 1933–1936: MOSCOW

1. Anna Akhmatova, ‘Predislovie’ (Preface) in Requiem, trans. Elizabeth Wilson, in Anna Akhmatova, Collected Works, vol. 1, pp. 362–3.

2. CCorr1 Yudina–Skrzhinskaya, 16 September 1933.

3. AnthLBL, p. 633.

4. CCorr1 Yudina–Zalesky, 9 September 1933.

5. CCorr1 Yudina–Skrzhinskaya, 17 October 1933.

6. CCorr1 Yudina–Ossovsky, 16 September 1933.

7. AnthLBL, pp. 191–2.

8. CCorr1 Yudina–Skrzhinskaya, 17 October 1933.

9. Sovetskaya Muzyka, no. 6, 1933.

10. CCorr1 Yudina–Skrzhinskaya, 2 December 1933.

11. Ibid.

12. Shaporina, Dnevnik, vol. 1, p. 155.

13. Ibid.

14. CCorr1 Yudina–Ossovsky, 4 February 1934.

15. AnthLBL, p. 475.

16. Ibid.

17. CCorr1 Yudina–Ossovsky, 4 February 1934.

18. Ibid.

19. Ibid.

20. CCorr1 Yudina–Skrzhinskaya, 26 March 1934.

21. CCorr1 Yudina–Skrzhinskaya, 4 March 1934.

22. AnthLBL, pp. 208–9.

23. Ibid.

24. Ibid, p. 209.

25. Ibid, pp. 658–86.

26. Ibid, p. 297.

27. Ibid, pp. 190–1.

28. AnthMYSVM, p. 325, note 7.

29. Antsiferov, Iz dum o Bylom, p. 385.

30. Ibid, p. 386.

31. Shaporina, Dnevnik, vol. 2, p. 35.

32. Losev, Zhenshchina Myslitel’.

33. Ibid.

34. Ibid.

35. CCorr1 Losev–Yudina, 16 February 1934.

36. Ibid.

37. Ibid.

38. Ibid.

39. Ibid.

40. AnthVY, p. 122.

41. AnthLBL, pp. 182–3.

42. Ibid.

43. Ibid.

44. Ibid.

45. Solomon Volkov, St Petersburg: A Cultural History, London: Sinclair Stevenson, 1996, p. 387.

46. AnthLBL, p. 303.

47. Ibid.

48. Pyman, Florensky: A Quiet Genius, p. 143.

49. Ibid.

50. AnthLBL, p. 548.

51. AnthLBL, p. 158.

52. CCorr1 Yudina–Skrzhinskaya, August 1934.

53. CCorr1 Yudina–Skrzhinskaya, 7 September 1934.

54. Ibid.

55. AnthVY, p. 89.

56. Mandelstam, Hope Against Hope, p. 168.

57. Ibid, p. 259.

58. CCorr1 Yudina–Skrzhinskaya, 10 February 1935.

59. CCorr1 Yudina–Skrzhinskaya, 22 January and 10 February 1935.

60. CCorr1 Prokofiev–Yudina, 3 July 1935.

61. AnthPlSe, p. 29.

62. AnthVY, p. 188.

63. Ibid, p. 91.

64. CCorr1 Yudina–Skrzhinskaya, 23 March 1935.

65. CCorr1 Skrzhinskaya–Yudina, 28 March 1935.

66. Ibid.

67. Ibid.

68. AnthLBL, p. 651.

69. Ibid, p. 652.

70. Ibid, p. 653.

71. Ibid, p. 182.

72. CCorr1 Prokofiev–Yudina, 3 July 1935.

73. CCorr1 Yudina–Prokofiev, 12 July 1935.

74. CCorr1 Yudina–Yavorsky, 6 October 1935.

75. CCorr1 Yudina–Skrzhinskaya, 18 September 1935.

76. CCorr1 Yudina–Veysberg, 13 October 1934.

6 1936–1941: THE MOSCOW CONSERVATOIRE AND MUSICAL PROJECTS

1. Osip Mandel’stam, from Vosmistishii (eight lined verse), trans. Elizabeth Wilson, in Mandel’stam, Collected Works, vol. 1, p. 200.

2. Rubinchik, ‘Genrikh Neigauz i ego ucheniki’.

3. AnthVY, p. 176.

4. Ibid, p. 170.

5. Ibid. p. 176

6. Monsaingeon. Richter. Écrits, Conversations, pp. 80–1.

7. AnthVY, p. 67.

8. Ibid, p. 78.

9. Ibid, pp. 62–74.

10. Drozdova, Uroki Yudinoi, p. 43.

11. AnthLBL, pp. 296–300.

12. Drozdova, M. Yudina Religioznaya Sud’ba, p. 214.

13. AnthLBL, pp. 296–300.

14. Ibid, pp. 297–8.

15. Ibid, p. 289.

16. Drozdova, Uroki Yudinoi, p. 46.

17. Inger, ‘Pianistka Maria Grinberg’.

18. AnthLBL, p. 720.

19. Inger, ‘Pianistka Maria Grinberg’.

20. Drozdova, Uroki Yudinoi.

21. Ibid, pp. 103–5.

22. Ibid, p. 106.

23. CCorr1 Yudina–Yavorsky, summer 1938.

24. AnthLBL, p. 191.

25. Ibid, p. 188.

26. Ibid.

27. Shaporina, Dnevnik, vol. 1, p. 208.

28. CCorr1 Yudina’s Notes, p. 367.

29. Ibid.

30. AnthLBL, p. 158.

31. Yudina–Prokofiev, early January 1938, RGALI, Sergei Prokofiev Archive. Fond 1929, Op. 1, D. 765.

32. CCorr1 Yudina–Steinberg, 24 January 1938.

33. Ibid.

34. AnthLBL, p. 133.

35. AnthPlSe, p. 375.

36. Gavriil Yudin, AnthPlSe, p. 29.

37. Nice, BBC Music Magazine.

38. AnthVY, p. 70.

39. AnthLBL, p. 188.

40. Ibid.

41. Gorchakov, The Theatre in Soviet Russia.

42. Taneyev–Tchaikovsky, 11 April 1889, in Pis’ma P.I. Chaikovskogo i S.I. Taneyeva.

43. Sergei Protopopov, Tvorcheskii Put’ S.I. Taneyeva (The Creative Path of S.I. Taneyev), Sobranie Materialov k 90-letiyu S.I. Taneyeva (Collected materials for the 90th anniversary of Taneyev’s birth), Moscow/Leningrad, 1947.

44. AnthLBL, p. 189.

45. Ibid.

46. Ibid.

47. AnthLBL, p. 108.

48. CCorr4: Yudina–Moisei Grinberg, 28 August 1959.

49. Yudina–Prokofiev, 10 October 1939, RGALI, Sergei Prokofiev Archive. Fond 1929, Opis’ 1, D. 765.

50. AnthLBL, p. 125.

51. AnthVY, p. 84.

52. Ibid, pp. 89–90.

53. Ibid, p. 110.

54. Takho-Godi, Zhizn i sud’ba, pp. 251–2.

55. CCorr1 Yudina–Saltykov, late June 1939.

56. CCorr1 Yudina–G.M. Kogan, 26 June 1939.

57. CCorr1 Yudina–Saltykov, 11 June 1939.

58. Ibid, 6 July 1939.

59. Ibid.

60. AnthLBL, p.126.

61. CCorr1 Yudina’s Notes, p. 389.

62. Ibid.

63. AnthLBL, p. 108.

64. Yudina–Prokofiev, 10 October 1939, RGALI, Sergei Prokofiev Archive. Fond 1929, Opis’ 1, D. 765.

65. CCorr1 Yudina–Florenskaya, 3 August 1940.

66. CCorr1 Yudina–Myaskovsky, 30 September 1939.

67. Ibid.

68. CCorr1 Yudina–Yavorsky, 20 September 1940.

69. AnthVY, p. 278.

70. AnthLBL, p. 140.

71. CCorr1 Pasternak–Yudina, 8 February 1941.

72. AnthLBL, p. 164.

73. Ibid.

74. CCorr4 Yudina–Suvchinsky, 5 November 1961.

75. CCorr1 Yudina–Bakhtin, 10 September 1940.

76. Ibid, late March 1941.

77. Ibid.

78. CCorr1 Yudina–Bakhtin, 29 March 1941.

7 1941–1945: WAR AND ITS AFTERMATH

1. From Yudina’s Radio speech from Leningrad, summer 1943. RGB, Fond 527, Carton 2, ed. khr. 5.

2. AnthLBL, pp. 101–2.

3. Ibid, p. 126.

4. CCorr1 Yudina–Apresov, 3 February 1942.

5. Ibid.

6. Ibid.

7. Ibid.

8. CCorr1 Bobrovsky–Yudina, 1 April 1943.

9. Ibid.

10. MGK, Sto let Moskovskoi Konservatorii, p. 348.

11. Ibid.

12. Yusefovich, Besedy s Igorem Oistrakhom, p. 53.

13. CCorr7 Yusefovich. M.V.Yudina i kvartet imeni Beethovena, p. 445.

14. CCorr1 Yudina–Apresov, 3 February 1942.

15. CCorr1 Yudina–Steinbergs, 13 February 1942.

16. Yusefovich, Besedy s Igorem Oistrakhom, p. 53.

17. Nina Simonovich-Yefimova, letter to her son Adrian, 31 December 1941.

18. Rittikh, Tchaikovsky House-Museum 1941–42.

19. AnthVSChM, p. 180.

20. AnthLBL, p. 168.

21. CCorr1 Yudina–Steinbergs, 27 June 1942.

22. CCorr1 Yudina–Steinbergs, 27 June 1942.

23. AnthLBL, p. 104.

24. Ibid, p. 102.

25. Ibid.

26. CCorr1 Yudina–Apresov, 3 February 1942.

27. AnthNevel’IV, pp. 85–7.

28. CCorr2 Yudina–Mikhoels, 27 March 1946.

29. CCorr1 Yudina–Steinbergs, 27 June 1942.

30. Ibid.

31. AnthLBL, p. 151.

32. Ibid.

33. Ibid, p. 104.

34. Ibid, p. 105.

35. Ibid.

36. Zak, Stati, Materialy, Vospominaniya, p. 122.

37. AnthPlSe, p. 377.

38. Yusefovich, David Oistrakh Besedy s Igorem Oistrakhom, p. 54.

39. CorrBPOF, pp. 225 and 211.

40. Ibid, pp. 223.

41. AnthLBL, pp. 103–4.

42. Yusefovich, David Oistrakh Besedy s Igorem Oistrakhom, p. 55.

43. Ibid.

44. Shaporina, Dnevnik, vol. 1, p. 395.

45. CCorr2 Lyublinsky–Yudina, 21 February 1953.

46. RGB. Fond 527, Carton 2, ed. khr. 5.

47. Ibid.

48. Ibid.

49. Shaporina, Dnevnik, vol. 1, p. 426.

50. Ibid, pp. 408–9.

51. CCorr1 Yudina–Zalesky, May/June 1943.

52. CorrBPOF, p. 226.

53. Ibid, pp. 227 and 228.

54. Ibid, p. 230.

55. Shaporina, Dnevnik, vol. 1, p. 456.

56. Ibid.

57. Ibid, p. 458.

58. Ibid.

59. Mendelson-Prokofieva, O Sergee Sergeeviche Prokofieve, pp. 246–7.

60. Ibid, pp. 598–9.

61. Ibid.

8 1945–1953: THE ANTI-FORMALIST AND ANTI-COSMOPOLITAN CAMPAIGNS

1. Nikolai Zabolotsky, from his poem ‘Beethoven’, trans. Elizabeth Wilson, in Zabolotsky, Stolbtsy, Stikhotvoreniya, Poemy.

2. CCorr1 Shostakovich–Yudina, September 1944.

3. Laskin, Peterburgskie Teni, p. 80.

4. CCorr1 Yudina–Molotov, undated, c. 1944/45.

5. CCorr1 Yudina–Moscow Conservatoire Directors’ Office, 27 August 1945.

6. CCorr1 Yudina–Union of Composers Council, September 1945.

7. CCorr1 Yudina–Moscow Conservatoire Directors’ Office, October 1945.

8. Ibid.

9. CCorr2 Yudina–Skrzhinskaya, 16 January 1946.

10. Yudina–Sergei Prokofiev and Mira Mendelson-Prokofieva, early December 1945; RGALI. Fond 1929, Opis’. 3, ed. khr. 489.

11. CCorr2 Yudina–P. Korobkov and A. Vasilyeva, after 8 January 1946.

12. CCorr2 Yudina–Skrzhinskaya, 16 January 1946.

13. RGB Archive. Fond 527, Carton 2, ed. khr. 11.

14. Ibid.

15. Clark and Holquist, Mikhail Bakhtin, pp. 322–5.

16. AnthLBL, p. 151.

17. Ibid, pp. 153–4.

18. AnthVY, p. 163.

19. AnthLBL, p. 141.

20. Ibid, p. 144.

21. CCorr2 Yudina–Zabolotsky, 19–24 December 1946.

22. CCorr2 Yudina–Pasternak, 25 February 1947.

23. CorrBPOF, pp. 254–5.

24. Laskin, Peterburgskie Teni, p. 82.

25. CCorr2 Yudina–Pasternak, 4 February 1947.

26. CCorr2 Pasternak–Yudina, 4 February 1947.

27. Ivinskaya, A Captive of Time, pp. 195–6.

28. AnthLBL, p. 316.

29. Ibid, p. 674.

30. CCorr2 Yudina–Pasternak, 7–8 February 1947.

31. Ibid.

32. CorrBPOF, pp. 254–5.

33. CCorr2 Yudina–Pasternak, 7–8 February 1947.

34. Ibid.

35. CCorr2 Pasternak–Yudina, 9 February 1947.

36. CCorr2 Yudina–Pasternak, 25 February 1947.

37. Ibid.

38. Documentary, Portret Legendarnoj Pianistki.

39. CCorr2 Yudina–Pasternak, 24 November 1947.

40. AnthLBL, p. 141.

41. Ibid, p. 637.

42. Vagner, ‘My Meeting with M.V. Yudina’, pp. 80–4.

43. CCorr2 Alpatov–Yudina, 1 February 1947.

44. CCorr2 Tomashevskaya–Yudina, 24 February 1947.

45. Vlasova, 1948 god v Sovetskoj muzyke, p. 271.

46. Yudina–Prokofiev, note of 15 February 1948. RGALI Archive. Fond 1929, Opis’ 3, ed. khr. 489.

47. Yudina–Mravinsky, 22 December 1948. Archive.

48. Yudina–Vigner, 23 November 1948. Archive.

49. Marijas Judinas, 26 November 1948, ‘Literatura un māksla’.

50. Yudina–Prokofiev telegram, 21–22 November 1948. RGALI Archive. Fond 1929, Opis’ 3, ed. khr. 489.

51. M. Zorokhovich, 24 October 1946, Krasnoye Znamya.

52. CCorr2 Yudina–Matveyev, 26–27 May 1948.

53. CCorr2 Yudina–Tilicheyeva, 18 December 1946.

54. CCorr2 Tilicheyeva–Yudina, 28 September 1948.

55. CCorr2 Yudina–Matveyev, 26–27 May 1948.

56. Yudina–Antsiferov, 6 July 1948. RNB Archive. Fond 27, ed. khr. 378.

57. CCorr2 Yudina–E.F. Gnesina, 13 August 1949.

58. Ibid, 5 September 1949.

59. CCorr2 Yudina–Lyublinsky, late January 1953.

60. Wilson, Shostakovich, p. 287.

61. Meyer, Shostakovich Zhizn, p. 309.

62. Wilson, Shostakovich, p. 287.

63. Ibid.

64. Akopian, Fenomen Dmitriya Shostakovicha, p. 449.

65. CCorr2 Yudina–Skrzhinskaya, 3 July 1951.

66. CCorr2 Yudina–Bakhtin, 9–10 August 1951.

67. Ibid.

68. CCor2 Yudina–Lyublinsky, 3 May 1954.

69. CCorr2 Yudina–E.F. Gnesina, 14 July 1951.

70. AnthPlSe, p.104.

71. CCorr2 Yudina–Lyublinsky, 7 September 1951.

72. Ibid, 1 November 1951.

73. AnthLBL, p. 432.

74. CCorr2 Yudina–P. Yudin, September 1952.

75. Ibid.

76. Ibid.

77. Ibid.

9 1953–1960: THE THAW YEARS

1. From ‘Posle Grozy’ (After the Thunderstorm), 1958, trans. Elizabeth Wilson, in Pasternak, Izbrannoye v dvukh tomakh, vol. 1, p. 460.

2. CCorr4 Yudina–Suvchinsky, 13–19 March 1961.

3. CCorr3 Zalessky–Yudina, 29 March 1954.

4. CCorr2 Yudina–Skrzhinskaya, 12 December 1954.

5. AnthPlSe, p. 382.

6. CCorr2 Stepanova–Yudina, 8 May 1955.

7. CCorr3, note to letter 337.

8. CCorr2 Yudina–Skrzhinskaya, 23 September 1953.

9. CCorr3 Kuznetsov, Introduction, p. 8.

10. CCorr2 Yudina–Lyublinsky, 2–5 August 1953.

11. CCorr2 Yudina–Skrzhinskaya, 13 September 1953.

12. CCorr2 Yudina–Lyublinsky, 3 May 1953.

13. Ibid.

14. Ibid, 2–5 August 1953.

15. CCorr2 Yudina–Shrzhinskaya, 15 February 1954.

16. CCorr2 Yudina–Skrzhinskaya, April 1954.

17. CCorr2 Yudina–Zalesky, 1 April 1954.

18. Ibid, 27 June 1954.

19. CCorr2 Yudina–Lyublinsky, 12–26 July 1954.

20. Ibid.

21. CCorr2 Yudina–Rugevich, 20 August 1954.

22. CCorr2 Yudina–Lyublinsky, 12–26 July 1954.

23. CCorr2 Yudina–Lyublinsky, 23 August 1954.

24. CCorr2 Yudina–Betty Dattel, 31 May 1955.

25. CCorr2 Merzhanov–Yudina, 20 June 1955.

26. CCorr2 Zbruyeva–Yudina, 15 December 1955.

27. CCorr3 Yudina–Lyublinsky, 26 August 1957.

28. Ibid.

29. Ibid.

30. Yudina–Bogdanov-Berezovsky, 25 January 1956. RIII Archive. Fond 82, ed. khr. 827.

31. CCorr3 Yudina–Bakhtins, 25 January 1956.

32. CCorr3 Yudina–Trubachyova, 1 February 1956.

33. CCorr3 Yudina–Shaporina, 27 January 1956.

34. CCorr2 Yudina–Skrzhinskaya, 7 February 1955.

35. CCorr3 Zalessky–Yudina, 29 March 1956.

36. CCorr2 Yudina–Pasternak, 15 January 1954.

37. AnthVY, pp. 129–30.

38. CCorr2 Yudina–Pasternak, 15 January 1954.

39. CCorr2 Pasternak–Yudina, 18 January 1954.

40. Ibid, 3 August 1956.

41. CCorr3 Yudina–Pasternak, 3 September 1956.

42. Ibid.

43. AnthVY, pp. 115–16.

44. Ibid.

45. Markiz–Elizabeth Wilson interview, October 2020.

46. CCorr2 Yudina–Lyublinsky, 3 May 1953.

47. CCorr2 Yudina–Skrzhinskaya, 29 November 1955.

48. CCorr3 Lyublinsky–Yudina, 22 May 1957.

49. CCorr3 Yudina–Lyublinsky, 21 October 1957.

50. Ibid, 19 July 1957.

51. Ibid, 14 August 1957.

52. Ibid.

53. Yudina–Gauk. A. Gauk Archive, Moscow.

54. CCorr3 Gauk–Yudina, 17 March 1958.

55. AnthVY, p. 110.

56. AnthLBL, pp. 718–20.

57. CCorr3 Yudina–Lyublinsky, 8 December 1957.

58. CCor3 Yudina–Novozhilova, 4 and 6 April 1959.

59. Ccor3 Yudina–Bruni-Balmont, 23 December 1957.

60. CCorr3 Yudina–Shaporin, 23–24 January 1958.

61. CCorr3 Yudina–Novozhilova, 6 April 1959.

62. CCorr3 Yudina–Braudo, 15 November and 5 December 1957.

63. Yudina–Bogdanov-Berezovsky, 14 January 1958. RIII Archive. Fond 82, ed. khr. 827, ll. 21–6.

64. CCorr3 Yudina–Lyublinsky, 2 December 1958.

65. Ibid.

66. CCorr3 Yudina–Lyublinsky, 8 December 1957.

67. Ibid, 5 December 1956.

68. CCorr3 Notes, p. 176.

69. Prokhorova, Chetyre druga na fone stoletiya, p. 174.

70. CCorr4 Yudina–Kamendrovskaya, 17 September 1959.

71. Ibid, 17 September 1959.

72. Ibid.

73. CCorr4 Yudina–Lyublinsky, 20 September 1959.

74. CorrMYPS Yudina–Suvchinsky, 16 September 1959.

75. CCorr4 Yudina–Lyublinsky, 29 September 1959.

76. CCorr4 Suvchinsky–Yudina, 21 September 1959.

77. CorrMYPS Yudina–Suvchinsky, 19 October 1959.

78. Stravinsky and Craft, Dialogues and a Diary, p. 43.

79. AnthMYSVM, pp. 110–12.

80. CorrMYPS Yudina–Suvchinsky, 12 December 1959.

81. Yudina–Bogdanov-Berezovsky, 8 January 1960. RIII Archive. Fond 82, ed. khr. 827.

82. CCorr4 Yudina–Malko, 15 March 1959.

83. CCorr4 Malko–Yudina, February 1960.

84. Yudina–Rozhdestvensky, 23/24 February 1960. Elizabeth Wilson’s private archive.

85. CCorr4 Suvchinsky–Yudina, 17 March 1960.

86. Walsh, Stravinsky, pp. 528–9.

87. CCorr4 Blazhkov–Yudina, 15 February 1960.

88. CCorr4 Yudina–Blazhkov, 19 February 1960.

89. CCorr4 Yudina–Stravinsky, 29 April 1960.

90. CCorr4 Suvchinsky–Yudina, 12 May 1960.

91. CCorr4 Stravinsky–Yudina, 7 May 1960.

92. CCorr4 Suvchinsky–Yudina, 24 May 1960.

93. CCorr4 Jolivet–Yudina, 8 June 1960.

94. CCorr4 Yudina–Bakhtins, 28 January 1960.

95. CorrMYPS Yudina–Suvchinsky, 5 June 1960.

96. Ibid.

97. Ibid.

98. Ibid.

99. Drozdova, Uroki Yudinoj, pp. 173–6.

100. CCorr4 Matsov–Yudina, 26 April 1960.

101. CCorr4 Yudina–Lyublinsky, 23 June 1960.

102. CCorr4 Yudina–Kogan, 1 July 1960.

10 1960–1970: THE FINAL DECADE

1. Shpiller, Oration at Yudina’s Funeral on 24 November 1970, in AnthLBL, p. 11.

2. P.A. Florensky, Stolp i Utverzhdeniye Istiny, pp. 585–6.

3. CCorr4 Bogdanov-Berezovsky–Yudina, 31 October 1960.

4. AnthLBL, pp. 724–9.

5. CCorr4 Suvchinsky–Yudina, 14 October 1960.

6. Ibid, 12 September 1960.

7. Ibid.

8. Ibid.

9. Ibid.

10. CCorr4 Jolivet–Yudina, 16 October 1960.

11. CCorr4 Yudina–Stravinsky, 28 November 1960.

12. Ibid.

13. CCorr4 Stravinsky–Yudina, 16 January 1961.

14. Interview with Elizabeth Wilson.

15. CCorr4 Yudina–Pärt, 30 October 1961.

16. CCorr4 Yudina–Lyublinsky, 23 May–1 June 1961.

17. Walsh, Stravinsky, pp. 439–40.

18. Ogonyok, August 1961.

19. Stravinskaya, I.F. Stravinsky i ego blizkie, pp. 86–7.

20. CCorr4 Blazhkov–Yudina, 1 July 1961.

21. CCorr4 Yudina–Suvchinsky, 13–19 March 1961.

22. CCorr4 Suvchinsky–Yudina, 27 March 1961.

23. CCorr4 Stravinsky–Yudina, 16 June 1961.

24. Walsh, Stravinsky, p. 440.

25. CCorr4 Yudina–Blazhkov, 7 July 1961.

26. CCorr5 Yudina–Balanchine, 10 November 1962, pp. 321–2.

27. CCorr4 Yudina–Lyublinsky, 1 June 1961.

28. CCorr4 Yudina–Chernobrova-Levina, 19 June 1961.

29. CCorr4 Yudina–Melodiya Studios, 13 July 1961.

30. CCorr4 Yudina–Suvchinsky, 21 May 1962.

31. Stravinsky and Craft, Dialogues and a Diary.

32. CCorr4 Yudina–Suvchinsky, 6 August 1961.

33. CCorr4 Yudina–Chernobrova-Levina, 19 June 1961.

34. CCorr4 Yudina–Bruni-Balmont, 20 June 1961.

35. CCorr4 Yudina–Krasheninnikova, 6 August 1961.

36. CCorr4 Suvchinsky–Yudina, 28 August 1961.

37. CCorr4 Yudina–Mokreyeva/Blazhkov, 19 September 1961.

38. Ibid, 20 September 1961.

39. CCorr4 Suvchinsky–Yudina, 23 October 1961.

40. Walsh, Stravinsky, p. 443.

41. CCorr4 Yudina–Blazhkov, 19 September 1961.

42. CCorr4 Yudina–the Suvchinskys, 26 December 1961.

43. CCorr4 Stockhausen–Yudina, 1 August 1961.

44. CCorr4 Yudina–Suvchinsky, 20 September 1961.

45. AnthVY, Gavriil Yudin, p.176.

46. CCorr4 Yudina–Pärt, 30 October 1961.

47. Ibid.

48. CCorr4 Suvchinsky–Yudina, 17 January 1961.

49. CCorr4 Yudina–Lyublinsky, 18 December 1961.

50. CCorr5 Yudina, note p. 37.

51. CCorr5 Yudina–Zalesky, 8 February 1962.

52. CCorr5 Yudina–Suvchinsky, 29 January 1962.

53. CCorr5 Yudina–Chernobrova-Levina, 18 May 1962.

54. CCorr5 Yudina, note p. 37.

55. CCorr5 Yudina–Blazhkov/Mokreyeva, 2 March 1962.

56. CCorr5 Yudina–Suvchinsky, 5–15 June 1962.

57. Stravinskaya, I.F. Stravinsky i ego blizkie, p. 91.

58. CCorr5 Suvchinsky–Yudina, 12 March 1962.

59. Ibid.

60. Ibid, 26 March 1962.

61. CCorr5 Yudina–Suvchinsky, 4 April 1962.

62. CCorr5 Liephart–Yudina, 9 April 1962.

63. CCorr5 Zagursky–Yudina, 1 April 1962. RNB. Fond 1117, ed. khr. 2090, ll. 2–3.

64. CCorr5 Yudina–Stravinsky, 30 April 1962.

65. Ibid.

66. CCorr5 Yudina–Blazhkov, 20 July 1962.

67. CCorr5 Yudina–Stravinskaya, 28–29 August 1962.

68. Yudina–Bogdanov-Berezovsky, 25 October 1962. RIII Archive. Fond 82, ed. khr. 827.

69. Craft–Wilson, May 1986. Elizabeth Wilson personal archive.

70. Stravinskaya, I.F. Stravinsky i ego blizkie, pp. 100–1.

71. Stravinsky and Craft, Dialogues and a Diary, p. 274.

72. Craft–Wilson, May 1986. Elizabeth Wilson personal archive.

73. Synthesizer, named after Scriabin’s initials, invented by Yevgeni Murzin. See Schmelz, ‘From Pink Floyd to Scriabin’.

74. CCorr5 Yudina–Suvchinsky, October 1962.

75. Stravinskaya, I.F. Stravinsky i ego blizkie, p. 115.

76. Ibid, p. 126.

77. Stravinsky and Craft, Dialogues and a Diary, pp. 298–9.

78. Ibid.

79. AnthLBL, pp. 726–7.

80. CCorr5 Yudina–Suvchinsky, October 1962.

81. AnthLBL, p. 727.

82. CCorr5 Yudina–Suvchinsky, October 1962.

83. CCorr5 Yudina–Prieberg, 27 November 1962.

84. CCorr5 Yudina–Suvchinsky, October 1962.

85. Ibid.

86. Ibid.

87. Ibid, 28 November 1962.

88. Yudina–Suvchinsky, 28 November 1962.

89. CCorr5 Yudina–Suvchinsky, October 1962.

90. CCorr5 Suvchinsky–Yudina, 7 January 1963.

91. Ibid, 5 November 1962.

92. CCorr5 Yudina–Blazhkov, 5 November 1962.

93. CCorr5 Yudina–Suvchinsky, 28 November 1962.

94. CCorr5 Yudina–Balanchine, early 1963.

95. CCorr5 Yudina–Suvchinsky, 5 November 1961.

96. Ibid, 28 November 1962.

97. Ibid, 28 December 1962.

98. CCorr5 Suvchinsky–Yudina, 7 January 1963.

99. CCorr6 Yudina–Shostakovich, 25 September 1965.

100. Lubimov–Wilson, 2 January 2021. Elizabeth Wilson personal archive.

101. CCorr5 Yudina–Kholodilin, 17 May 1963.

102. CCorr5 The Teachers of the Khabarovsk Musical High School to the editorial board of Izvestiya, 7 March 1963.

103. Ibid.

104. CCorr5 Yudina–Kholodilin, 17 May 1963.

105. CCorr5 Yudina to Suvchinsky, 28 December 1962.

106. CCorr6 Yudina–Stravinskaya, 19 February 1964.

107. AnthVY, p. 198.

108. CCorr5 Yudina–Suvchinsky, late December 1963.

109. CCorr5 Yudina–Lyublinsky, 7–15 December 1963.

110. Leonid Gakkel, Yeshchyo Shest’ Lyet (Another Six Years), p. 57.

111. CCorr6 Yudina–Bakhtin, 11 August 1964.

112. Drozdova, M. Yudina Religioznaya Sud’ba, p. 213.

113. CCorr6 Yudina–Suvchinsky, November 1966.

114. AnthPlSe, pp. 392–3.

115. CCorr6 Yudina–Bakhtin, 1–14 June 1966.

116. CCorr6 Yudina–Lyublinsky, 6 April 1964.

117. Ibid, 30 September 1966.

118. Ibid, 14 May 1967.

119. AnthLBL, pp. 215–17.

120. Ibid.

121. Ibid.

122. Natalia Solzhenitsyna interview with Elizabeth Wilson.

123. Drozdova, M. Yudina Religioznaya Sud’ba, p. 213.

124. Ibid, pp. 214–16.

125. CCorr6 Yudina–Suvchinsky, November 1966.

126. CCorr7 Yudina–Filaret, 22 January 1967.

127. AnthLBL, pp. 731–8.

128. AnthPlSe, p. 577.

129. AnthLBL, p. 11.

130. CCorr7 Yudina–Lyublinsky, 11 September 1967.