Playing with Fire

INDEX

Achron, Iosif, (i)

Acmeist movement, (i)

Akhmatova, Anna, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix)

Akhmeteli, Sandro, (i)

Akimova, Sofia, (i)

Alikhanov, Abram, (i)

All-Union Radio Orchestra, (i)n, (ii), (iii), (iv)

Alpatov, Mikhail, (i), (ii)

Andreyev, Father Fyodor, (i), (ii), (iii)

Andreyeva, Anna and Maria (Masha), (i), (ii), (iii)

Andreyeva, Natalia Nikolayevna, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

Andreyevsky, Ivan Mikhailovich, (i), (ii)

Andrukhovich, Tamara, (i)

Anosov, Nikolai Pavlovich, (i), (ii)

Ansermet, Ernest, (i)

‘anti-cosmopolitanism’ (anti-Semitic repressions), (i), (ii), (iii)

anti-religious campaigns, (i)

Antsiferov, Nikolai, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

Apostolov, Pavel, (i)

Appolonov, Grigori, (i)

Apresov, Vladimir, (i), (ii)

Aranovich, Yuri, (i), (ii)

Artobolevskaya, Anna, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

Artobolevsky, Georgi, (i), (ii)

Asafiev, Boris, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

Aslanishvili, Shalvo (Shaliko), (i)

ASM (Association of Contemporary Music), (i)

Asmus, Valentin, (i)

Athonite ‘heretics’, (i)

Auer, Leopold, (i)

Bacewicz, Grażyna, (i)

Bach, Johann Sebastian: bicentenary celebrations, (i); music performed in Soviet Russia, (i); MVY’s interpretations of, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

‘Bach Circle’, (i)

Bakhtin, Mikhail: friendship with MVY, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); and the Bakhtin Circle, (i), (ii); in Nevel’, (i), (ii), (iii); arrested and exiled, (i); on Faddei Zelinsky, (i); examination of thesis, (i); in exile, (i), (ii); lectures at the Gnesins’ Institute, (i); on Pasternak, (i); on religion, (i)

Bakhtin, Vsevolod, (i), (ii), (iii)

Bakhtin Circle, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

Balanchine, Georges, (i), (ii)

Barrault, Jean-Louis, (i)

Barshai, Rudolf, (i), (ii)

Barth, Karl, (i)

Bartók, Béla, (i)

Bashkirov, Dmitri, (i)

Beethoven, Ludwig van: 125th anniversary, (i); MVY’s interpretations of, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x)

Beethoven String Quartet, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

Bekman-Shcherbina, Yelena, (i)

Belavin, Metropolitan Tikhon, see Tikhon, Patriarch

Belov, Vladimir, (i)

Bely, Andrei, (i), (ii), (iii)

Bely, Viktor, (i)

Bentzon, Niels Viggo, (i)

Berberova, Nina, (i)

Berchenko, Roman, (i)

Berdyaev, Nikolai, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

Berg, Alban, (i)

Beria, Lavrenti, (i)

Bernstein, Leonard, (i)

Bespalov, Nikolai, (i)

Bezrodny, Igor, (i)

Biek, Hermann, (i), (ii)

Birmak, Adriana, (i)

Birman, Serafima Germanovna, (i)

Bitov, Boris, (i)

Blazhkov, Igor, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

Blok, Alexander, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

Blumenfeld, Felix, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

Bobrovsky, Viktor, (i)

Bogdanov-Berezovsky, Valerian, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)

Bolsheviks, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

Borisovsky, Vadim, (i)

Boulanger, Nadia, (i)

Boulez, Pierre, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

Bradshaw, Susan, (i), (ii)

Braudo, Isai, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

Bromberg, Serafima Alexandrovna, (i), (ii), (iii)

‘Brotherhood of Saint Seraphim Sarovsky’, (i), (ii), (iii)

‘Brotherhood of Saint Sophia of Divine Wisdom’, (i)

Bruni-Balmont, Nina, (i)

Bruni-Balmont, Tatiana, (i)

Bryusov, Valery, (i)

Budylina, M.V., (i)

Bulgakov, Sergei, (i), (ii)

Busoni, Ferruccio, (i), (ii)

Bykov, Alexei, (i), (ii)

Casella, Alfredo, (i)

Chagall, Marc, (i), (ii)

Chepurin, Father Nikolai, (i)

Cherepnin, Nikolai, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

Chernikov, Olga, (i)

Chernobrova-Levina, Rosa, (i)

Chopin, Frédéric, (i)

Chukov, Nikolai, (i)

Chukovskaya, Lydia, (i)

Chukovsky, Kornei, (i)

Chulaki, Mikhail, (i)

Clark, Edward, (i)

Clark, Katerina, (i)

Cliburn, Van, (i)

Cohen, Hermann, (i)

Collot, Jean-Pierre, (i)

Cooper, Emil, (i), (ii), (iii)

Cordin, Lina, (i)

Craft, Robert, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

Cuban Missile Crisis, (i)

Danblon, Paul, (i)

Death of Stalin, The (film, 2017), (i), (ii)

Denisov, Edison, (i)

Derevyanko, Pyotr, (i)

Derevyanko, Viktor, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

Désormière, Roger, (i)

Diaghilev, Sergei Valentinovich, (i)

Dobiash-Rozhdestvenskaya, Olga, (i), (ii), (iii)

Dobuzhinsky, Mstislav, (i)

Dolivo, Anatoli, (i), (ii), (iii)

Dolukhanova, Zara, (i)

Dorliak, Kseniya, (i), (ii)

Drozdov, Vladimir Nikolayevich, (i), (ii)

Drozdova, Maria, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)

Druskin, Mikhail, (i), (ii)

Druzhinin, Fyodor, (i), (ii), (iii)

Dubinsky, Rostislav, (i)

Dubourvieux, Nadine, (i)

Dudintsev, Vladimir, (i)

Dyakov, Abram, (i)

DZZ (Dom Zvuko Zapisej), (i), (ii)

Eden, Anthony, (i)

Eisenhower, Dwight D., (i)

Eliasberg, Karl, (i), (ii), (iii)

Fairclough, Pauline, (i)

Fateyev, Vasili, (i)

Favorsky, Vladimir, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)

February Revolution (1917), (i)

Fedorchenko, Esfira, (i)

Fedotov, Georgi, (i)

Feigin, Grisha, (i)

Feinberg, Samuil, (i), (ii)

Filaret, Metropolitan, (i)

Filippov, Boris, (i), (ii)

Filonov, Pavel, (i)

First All-Union Congress of Composers, (i)

Flier, Yakov, (i), (ii), (iii)

Florenskaya, Anna Mikhailovna, (i), (ii)

Florenskaya-Trubachyova, Olga, (i), (ii), (iii)

Florensky, Father Pavel, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi)

Floriot, Marc, (i)

Fogd-Stoyanova, Tatiana, (i)

formalism, repression of, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

Franck, Semyon, (i), (ii)

Freidenberg, Olga, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

Frenkel, Naftaly, (i)

Freud, Sigmund, (i)

Fried, Grigori, (i)

Fried, Oskar, (i)

Friedman, Valentina, (i), (ii)

Fyodorishchev, Yuri, (i)

Gakkel, Leonid, (i)

Gandshin, Jacques, (i)

Garshin, Vladimir, (i)

Gauk, Alexander, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

Gerasimova, Marianna, (i)

German Romanticism, (i)

Gevorkyan, Minas, (i)

Gilels, Emil, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)

Ginzburg, Leo, (i), (ii), (iii)

Gippius, Karl, (i)

Gippius, Zinaida, (i)

Glazunov, Alexander, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

Glebova, Tatiana, (i), (ii)

Glière, Reinhold, (i)

Glob, Andrei, (i)

Gnesin, Mikhail, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)

Gnesina, Yelena Fabianovna, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

Gnesins’ Institute, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix)

Godowsky, Leopold, (i)

Goldenweiser, Alexander, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

Golubtsev, Father Nikolai, (i), (ii)

Gorky, Maxim, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

Gornastaeva, Vera, (i)

Gottlieb, Adolf, (i)

Gould, Glenn, (i), (ii)

Grabovsky, Leonid, (i)

Graham, Martha, (i)

Greyvs, Ivan, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

Grinberg, Maria, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

Grishtayeva, Kseniya, (i)

Grossman, Maria, (i)

Grunberg, Pavel, (i)

Guchkova, Vera, (i)

Gumilyov, Nikolai, (i)

Gurvich, Iosif Mikhailovich, (i)

Gutman, Jan, (i)

Heifetz, Jascha, (i)

Hess, Myra, (i)

Hindemith, Paul, (i), (ii), (iii)

Holquist, Michael, (i)

homosexuality, repression of, (i)

Horenstein, Jascha, (i), (ii), (iii)

Horowitz, Vladimir, (i), (ii)

Hungary, Soviet invasion, (i)

Iannucci, Armando, The Death of Stalin (film, 2017), (i), (ii)

Igumnov, Konstantin, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)

intelligentsia, Russian, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

Ireland, John, (i)

Ivanov, Vyacheslav, (i)

Ivanov-Razumnik, (i)

Ivinskaya, Olga, (i), (ii)

Jackowski, Alexander, (i)

Jews, atrocities against, (i)

Jolivet, André, (i), (ii), (iii)

Josephite movement, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

Kabalevsky, Dmitri, (i), (ii), (iii)

Kabardinian folk songs, (i)

Kagan, Matvei, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii)

Kagan, Sofia, (i)

Kalafati, Vasili, (i)

Kalantarova, Olga, (i)

Kamendrovskaya, Tatiana, (i)

Kamensky, Alexander, (i)

Kanayev, Ivan, (i), (ii)

Kandinsky, Vasili, (i)

Karetnikov, Nikolai, (i)

Karsavin, Lev, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)

Kazan Cathedral Choir, (i)

Kazan Conservatoire, (i)

Kazanovich, Yevlaliya, (i), (ii)

Kazansky, Metropolitan Veniamin, (i), (ii)

Kerner, Anna, (i)

Khachaturian, Aram, (i)

Khachaturian, Karen, (i), (ii)

Kharms, Daniil, (i), (ii), (iii)

Kholodilin, Alexander, (i)

Khrennikov, Tikhon, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

Khrushchev, Nikita, (i)

King, David, (i), (ii)

Kleiber, Erich, (i)

Klemperer, Otto, (i), (ii)

Klimov, Mikhail, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

Klin (city), (i), (ii)

Klyuev, Nikolai, (i)

Knipper, Olga, (i), (ii)

Kochetkov, Alexander, (i), (ii)

Kochurov, Yuri, (i), (ii), (iii)

Kogan, Grigori, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

Kondrashin, Kirill, (i)

Korolenko, Vladimir, (i)

Koroliov, Yevgeni, (i)n, (ii)

Koval, Marian, (i)

Kozlov, Pavel, (i)

Kozolupova, Marina, (i), (ii)

Krasheninnikova, Yekaterina and Maria, (i)

Kremlyev, Yuli, (i), (ii), (iii)

Krenek, Ernst, (i), (ii)

Krylenko, Nikolai, (i)

Kulikov, Father Alexander, (i)

Kushnaryov, Khristofor, (i)

Kuznetsov, Anatoli, (i), (ii), (iii)

Leipzig, (i)

Lenin, Vladimir, (i), (ii), (iii)

Leningrad (Petrograd), (i), (ii), (iii); siege (1942–43), (i), (ii), (iii)

Leningrad (Petrograd) Conservatoire, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

Leningrad (Petrograd) Philharmonic Orchestra, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)n, (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x)

Leningrad Academic Capella, (i)

Leschetizky, Theodor, (i), (ii)

Lesgaft, Pyotr, (i)n

Lesgaft Courses, (i), (ii)

Levitin, Yuri, (i)

Likhachov, Dmitri, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

Linetskaya, Elga, (i)

Lipkin, Seymour, (i)

Lissitzky, Lazar Markovich (‘El Lissitzky’), (i)

Livanova, Tamara, (i)

Lodzinsky, Mikhail, (i), (ii)

Loiter, Yelizaveta, (i)

Lokshin, Alexander, (i), (ii)

Losev, Alexei, (i), (ii), (iii)

Lossky, Nikolai, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

Lothar-Shevchenko, Vera, (i)

Lubimov, Alexei, (i), (ii)n, (iii), (iv), (v)

Lunacharsky, Anatoli, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

Lutosławski, Witold, (i)

Lyatoshinsky, Boris, (i)

Lysenko, Trofim, (i), (ii)

Lyubetsky, Lev, (i)

Lyublinsky, Vladimir, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

Makarova, Shura, (i)

Malevich, Kazimir, (i)

Malko, Nikolai, (i), (ii), (iii)

Mandelstam, Nadezhda, (i)

Mandelstam, Osip, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

Marburg School, (i)

Mariinsky Theatre, (i), (ii)

Markiz, Lev, (i)

Marshak, Samuil, (i), (ii), (iii)

Mashirov, Alexei, (i), (ii)

Maslakovets, Alla, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

Maslakovets, Pyotr, (i), (ii)

Masonic orders, (i)

Matsov, Roman, (i), (ii)

Matveyev, Mikhail, (i)

Mayakovsky, Vladimir, (i)

Medtner, Nikolai, (i)

Medvezhya Gora (gulag), (i)

Meier, Alexander, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii)

Melodiya Studios, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

Men’, Father Alexander, (i)

Mendelssohn, Felix, (i)

Mendelssohn, Mira, (i)

Merezhkovsky, Dmitri, (i)

Merzhanov, Viktor, (i), (ii)

Messiaen, Olivier, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

Meyereovich, Mikhail, (i), (ii)

Meyerhold, Vsevolod, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

Migai, Sergei, (i), (ii)

Mikeladze, Yevgeni, (i), (ii)

Mikhailov, Lev, (i)

Mikhoels, Solomon, (i), (ii), (iii)

Miklashevskaya, Irina, (i)

Mirsky, Dmitri, (i)

Mitropoulos, Dmitri, (i)

Moholy-Nagy, Làszlò, (i)

Mokreyeva, Galina, (i), (ii)

Molotov, Vyacheslav, (i), (ii)

Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, (i)

Moscow Chamber Orchestra, (i)

Moscow Conservatoire, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

Moscow Radio Orchestra, (i)

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, (i), (ii)

Mravinsky, Yevgeni, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

Muradeli, Vano, (i)

Muromtsev, Yuri, (i)

Musgiz (music publisher), (i), (ii)

Music Technikum, (i)

Myaskovsky, Nikolai, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

Nalchik (city), (i)

‘Name-Worshippers’ (religious sect), (i)

Narkompros (Commissariat for Enlightenment), (i)

Nasedkin, Alexei, (i)n

Naumov, Lev, (i)

Nazarov, Yasha, (i)

Nest’ev, Israel, (i)

Neuhaus, Heinrich, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii)

Neuhaus, Stanislav, (i), (ii), (iii)

Neusykhin, Alexander, (i)

Nevel’, Russia, (i), (ii), (iii); massacre of Jews, (i)

New Viennese School, (i)

New York City Ballet, (i)

New York Philharmonic, (i)

Nikitina, Olga, (i)

Nikolayev, Leonid, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

Nikolayeva, Tatiana, (i), (ii), (iii)

Nixon, Richard, (i)

Nono, Luigi, (i)

Novosibirsk (city), (i)

Nusinov, Isaak, (i)

OBERIU (Leningrad absurdist group), (i)

Oborin, Lev, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

OGPU (secret police), (i), (ii)

Oistrakh, David, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)

Orlov, Alexander, (i)

Ormandy, Eugene, (i)

Ossovsky, Alexander, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

Pale of Settlement, (i)

Pärt, Arvo, (i), (ii)

Pasternak, Boris: Dr Zhivago, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); first encounter with MVY, (i); friendship with Heinrich Neuhaus, (i); friendship with MVY, (i), (ii), (iii); meets Leonard Bernstein, (i); and MVY’s Schubert lieder project, (i), (ii); death and funeral, (i)

Pavlovskaya-Borovik, Vera, (i)

Peiko, Nikolai, (i)

Perelman, Natan, (i)

Peshkova, Yekaterina Pavlovna, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

Petersburg Religious Philosophical Society, (i)

Petrograd (St Petersburg), during the Civil War, (i)

Petrograd Conservatoire, (i), (ii)

Petrograd University, (i)

Petrograd/Leningrad Philharmonic, (i), (ii)

Petrogradsky Trial (1922), (i)

Petrov-Vodkin, Kuzma, (i)

Petrovykh, Iosif, (i)

Petrozhitsky, Lev, (i)

Pieck, Wilhelm, (i)

Pigulevskaya, Nina, (i)

Pikayzen, Viktor, (i), (ii), (iii)

Platonov, Sergei, (i)

Pollock, Jackson, (i)

Polovtseva, Kseniya, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii)

PomPolit (association), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

Ponkizovkin, Yuri, (i)

Popov, Gavriil, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

Popov, Konstantin, (i)

Popova, Lyubov, (i)

Poret, Alisa, (i), (ii), (iii)

Preobrazhensky, Alexander, (i)

Prezent, Isaac, (i)

Prieberg, Fred, (i), (ii)

Privshin, Mikhail, (i)

Prokhorova, Vera, (i), (ii)

Prokofiev, Sergei: Second Piano Concerto, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii); Romeo and Juliet, (i); collaboration with Meyerhold, (i); evacuated during the war, (i); music censored, (i); provides accommodation to MVY, (i); War and Peace, (i), (ii); death, (i)

Protopopov, Sergei, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

Pumpyansky, Lev Vasilyevich, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)

purges, (i); in education, (i)

Pyast, Vladimir, (i)

Rabinovich, Isaak, (i)

Rabinovich, Nikolai, (i)

Rachmaninov, Sergei, (i), (ii)

Radlov, Sergei, (i)

Raikh, Zinaida, (i)

Raisky, Nazary, (i)

Rakhlin, Nathan, (i), (ii)

Ramin, Günther, (i)

Rank, Otto, (i)

RAPM (Russian Association of Proletarian Music), (i), (ii)

religious music, Soviet banning of, (i)

Renzin, Isai, (i)

Resolution (1946), condemning ideological impurity, (i), (ii)

Richter, Sviatoslav, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

Rilke, Rainer Maria, (i)

Rimsky-Korsakov, Andrei, (i)

Rodchenko, Alexander, (i), (ii)

Rolland, Romain, (i)

Rosenstock, Joseph, (i)

Rosicrucian Order, (i)

Rostropovich, Mstislav, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

Rozhdestvenskaya, Natalia, (i), (ii)

Rozhdestvensky, Alexander, (i)

Rozhdestvensky, Gennadi, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

Ruben, Dominic, (i)

Rubinstein, Anton, (i)

Rubinstein, Nikolai, (i)

Rubinstein Prize, (i)

Ruchevskaya, Yekaterina, (i)

Rudneva, Lyubov, (i)

Rugevich, Anna Sergeyevna, (i)

Rugevich, Vladimir, (i)

Russian Orthodox Church, (i), (ii)

Saltykov, Kirill, (i)

Saltykova, Yelena Nikolayevna, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii)

samizdat, (i), (ii)

Sanderling, Kurt, (i)n, (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

Savyolovo, (i)

Scherchen, Hermann, (i), (ii)

Schillinger, Joseph, (i)

Schmitt, Florent, (i)

Schnabel, Artur, (i)

Schoenberg, Arnold, (i)

Schubert, Franz, (i), (ii), (iii)

Schweitzer, Albert, (i)

Scriabin Memorial Museum, (i), (ii)

Sébastien, Georges, (i), (ii)

Second World War, (i)

Selyu, Yulian, (i), (ii)

Serebryakov, Pavel, (i)

Serocki, Karimierz, (i)

Shakhovskaya, Natalia, (i)

Shakty Trials, (i)

Shapiro, Raisa, (i)

Shaporin, Yuri, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

Shaporina, Lyubov, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix)

Shatsky, Stanislav, (i)

Shcherbachov, Vladimir, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

Shebalin, Vissarion, (i), (ii), (iii)

Shervinsky, Sergei, (i)

Shirinsky, Sergei, (i), (ii)

Shishmarev, V.F., (i)

Shostakovich, Dmitri: studies at Petrograd Conservatoire, (i); at MVY’s graduation performance, (i); on MVY’s influence, (i); on Nikolai Malko, (i); Bach’s influence on, (i); at Prokofiev’s performance of his Second Piano Concerto, (i); composition lessons from Yavorsky, (i); music censored, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); support for MVY, (i); at Bach’s bicentenary celebrations in Leipzig, (i); 24 Preludes and Fugues, (i); Ninth Symphony, (i); Second Piano Sonata, (i); Seventh Symphony, (i), (ii), (iii); Tenth Symphony, (i); Thirteenth Symphony, (i)

Shostakovich, Sofia Vasilyevna, (i)

Shotinov, Konstantin, (i)

show trials, (i)

Shpiller, Father Vsevolod, (i), (ii)

Shtarkman, Naum, (i)

Silver Age, Russian, (i)

Silvestrov, Valentin, (i)

Simonovich-Yefimova, Nina, (i), (ii)

Sinyavsky, Andrei, (i)

Skoblò, Valentin, (i)

Skrebkov, Sergei, (i)

Skrzhinskaya, Irina, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

Skrzhinskaya, Yelena Cheslavna, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x)

Slatin, Ilya, (i)

Sluchevskaya, Lida, (i)

Smetácek, Václav, (i)

Socialist Realism, (i), (ii)

Sofronitsky, Vladimir, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii)

Sokolova, Valentina, (i)

Sollertinsky, Ivan, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

Solomennaya Storozha (housing cooperative), (i), (ii), (iii)

Solovki monastery, (i)

Solovyov, Vladimir, (i), (ii), (iii)

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

Sosnovskaya, Yelena, (i), (ii)

Souvchinsky, Pierre, (i)

Soviet musical life, (i)

Soviet propaganda, (i)

St Petersburg Conservatoire, (i)

Stalin, Iosif, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi)

Stalingrad, (i)

Stanislavsky, Konstantin, (i)

Stanislavsky Theatre, (i)

Starogorodsky, Metropolitan Sergei, (i), (ii)

Stasevich, Abram, (i)

Steinberg, Maximilian, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

Stiedri, Fritz, (i), (ii)

Stockhausen Karlheinz, (i), (ii), (iii)

Stolyarov, Grigori, (i)

Straszyński, Olgierd, (i)

Stravinskaya, Kseniya, (i), (ii)

Stravinsky, Igor: music performed in USSR in 1920s, (i), (ii), (iii); MVY performances of, (i); MVY corresponds with, (i); music censored, (i); MVY’s championship of, (i); 80th birthday celebrations, (i); return to USSR, (i)

Stromin, Albert, (i), (ii)

Suvchinskaya, Marianna (née Karsavina), (i)

Suvchinsky, Pierre (Pyotr Petrovich), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix)

Svetlova, Natalia, (i)

Sviridov, Georgi, (i)

Symbolist Movement, (i)

Szymanowski, Karol, (i), (ii)

Tagantsev plot, (i)

Tager, Sergei, (i)

Talich, Václav, (i)

Tamarkina, Rosa, (i)

Taneyev, Sergei, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); Oresteia, (i)

Tarlé, Yevgeni, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

Tatlin, Vladimir, (i)

Tchaikovsky Hall, Moscow, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

Tchaikovsky Museum, Klin, (i)

Teitelbaum-Levinson, Frieda, (i)

Thibaud, Jacques, (i)

Tiflis (Tblisi), (i), (ii)

Tikhon, Patriarch, (i), (ii), (iii)

Tikhvin (city), (i)

Tilicheyeva, Yevgeniya Oskarovna (née Otten), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x)

Timofeyev, Leonid, (i)

Tishchenko, Boris, (i), (ii)

Tolstoy, Alexei, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

Tolstoy, Ivan Ivanovich, (i)

Tolstoy, Lev, (i)

Tomashevskaya, Irina, (i)

Tomashevskaya, Zoya, (i), (ii)

Traill, Robert, (i)

Trotsky, Leon, (i)

Trubachyov, Sergei, (i), (ii)

Trubetskoi, Sergei, (i)

Tsvetayeva, Marina, (i), (ii)

Tsyganov, Dmitri, (i), (ii)

Tsypkin, Leonid, (i)

Tyulin, Yuri, (i)

Udintsev, Boris, (i)

Udintsevna, Yekaterina, (i)

Ukhtomsky, Alexei, (i), (ii)

Union of Composers, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

Usachevsky, Vladimir, (i)

USSR State Orchestra, (i)

Ustvolskaya, Galina, (i)

Vaginov, Konstantin, (i); The Satyr’s Song (1927), (i)

Vagner, Georgi, (i), (ii)

Vakhrameyev, Metropolitan Filaret, (i)

Vanadziņš, Nikolajs, (i)

Vedernikov, Father Nikolai, (i), (ii)

Veysberg, Yulia, (i), (ii), (iii)

Vigner, Leonid, (i)

Vinogradova, Vera, (i), (ii)

Virsoladze, Eliso, (i)

Vitebsk, Russia, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

VKhuTEMAS (institute), (i)

Vladimirov, Vyacheslav, (i), (ii)

Vlasov, Vladimir, (i)

Volfila (religious-philosophical circle), (i), (ii)

Volkonsky, Andrei, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); Musica Stricta, (i)

Volkov, Solomon, Testimony, (i)

Voloshinov, Valentin, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

Voronezh, (i)

Voskreseniye (religious-philosophical circle), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

Vuchetich, (i)

Vvedensky, Alexander, (i)

Vykhodtseva, Yevgeniya, (i)

Vyshinsky, Andrei, (i)

Wagner, Richard, Tristan and Isolde, (i)

Waiman, Mikhail, (i)

Walter, Bruno, (i)

Walton, William, (i)

White Sea-Baltic Canal, (i)

World Festival of Youth, Moscow (1957), (i)

Yagoda, Genrikh, (i)

Yakhontov, Vladimir, (i)

Yaunzem, Irma, (i), (ii)

Yavorsky, Boleslav, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x)

Yefimov, Ivan, (i)

Yershov, Ivan Vasilyevich, (i), (ii)

Yesenin-Volpin, Alexander, (i)

Yesipova, Anna Nikolayevna, (i), (ii)

Yevgrafov, Lev, (i), (ii), (iii)

Yevlakhov, Orest, (i)

Yevtushenko, Yevgeni, (i), (ii), (iii)

Yudin, Boris, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)

Yudin, Gavriil, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)

Yudin, Lev, (i), (ii)

Yudin, Pavel Fyodorovich, (i), (ii), (iii)

Yudin, Veniamin Gavrilovich, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

Yudina, Anna, (i), (ii)

Yudina, Boris, (i)

Yudina, Flora, (i), (ii)

Yudina, Maria Veniaminovna: birth and childhood, (i); musical education, (i); takes part in February Revolution (1917), (i); Jewish background, (i), (ii); romantic relationships, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi); Orthodox faith, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v); and the Bakhtin Circle, (i), (ii), (iii); studies at Petrograd (Leningrad) Conservatoire, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v); attends Petrograd University, (i); member of Voskreseniye, (i); and the Josephite movement, (i), (ii); teaches at the Petrograd (Leningrad) Conservatoire, (i), (ii); interest in vocal music, (i), (ii); membership of LASM (Leningrad Association of Contemporary Music), (i); recital debut in Moscow, (i); dismissed from Leningrad Conservatoire, (i); travels to Alma-Ata, (i); teaches at Tiflis Conservatoire, (i); health problems, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v); moves to Moscow, (i); professor of piano at Moscow Conservatoire, (i); interest in architecture, (i); Schubert lieder project, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); in Moscow during the Second World War, (i); performances during the war, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); in Leningrad during the siege, (i), (ii), (iii); travels to Leipzig for Bach’s bicentenary, (i); home in Solomennaya Storozhka, (i), (ii); literary interests, (i), (ii), (iii); recital tour in Poland, (i); championship of new music, (i), (ii); support for Stravinsky, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); poetry readings, (i); denunciation and ban from performance, (i); rehabilitation, (i); lectures on Romanticism, (i); last public performances, (i); death and funeral, (i); alleged recording for Stalin, (i), (ii); choice of repertoire, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii), (xiv), (xv), (xvi), (xvii), (xviii), (xix), (xx)

Yudina, Raisa Yakovlevna, (i), (ii)

Yudina, Vera, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)

Zabolotsky, Nikolai, (i), (ii), (iii)

Zagursky, Boris, (i)

Zak, Yakov, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)

Zakharov, Vladimir, (i)

Zalesky, Boris, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

Zalessky, Emilyan (Milya), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)

Zamyatin, Yevgeni, (i), (ii)

Zayaitsky, Sergei, (i)

Zbruyeva, Nina, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

Zelinsky, Faddei Frantsevich, (i)

Zhdan, Valya (née Yasnopolskaya), (i), (ii)

Zhdanov, Andrei, (i), (ii), (iii)

Zhiganov, Nazib, (i)

Zhirmunsky, Viktor, (i)

Zhukov, Igor, (i)

Znameny Chant, (i)

Zoshchenko, Mikhail, (i), (ii)

Zubakin, Boris, (i), (ii), (iii)

Zuckerman, Viktor, (i)