Playing with Fire

PLATES

1. Maria Yudina as newly appointed professor of Petrograd Conservatoire, 1922. Collection of Yakov Nazarov.

2. Maria’s father, Veniamin Gavrilovich Yudin. Collection of Yakov Nazarov.

3. Maria’s mother, Raisa Yakovlevna Yudina. Collection of Yakov Nazarov.

4. Anna Yesipova. Collection of Yakov Nazarov.

5. Bakhtin’s circle recreated in Leningrad, c.1924–6. Collection of Yakov Nazarov.

6. Yudina at piano, late 1920s/early 1930s. Collection of Yakov Nazarov.

7. Detail from The House Cut Open by Alisa Poret and Tatiana Glebova. Collection of Yaroslav Arts Museum.

8. Yudina in besieged Leningrad, summer 1943. Collection of Yakov Nazarov.

9. Concert in wartime Moscow with conductor Nikolai Anosov at the Grand Hall of the Conservatoire, 8 June 1943. Collection of Yakov Nazarov.

10. Poster for Yudina’s recital at the Grand Hall of the Philharmonia in besieged Leningrad, 3 October 1943. From collection of Musical Library of St Petersburg Academic Shostakovich Philharmonia.

11. Pencil drawing of Maria Yudina by Vladimir Favorsky, January 1949.

12. Yudina with Igor Stravinsky at the opening of an exhibition in his honour at the Leningrad House of Composers, 6 October 1962. Collection of Yakov Nazarov.

13. Stravinsky receiving applause at the Grand Hall of the Moscow Conservatoire, September 1962. Photo taken by Khrennikov’s wife, Klara Vaks. In archival collection of RNMM (Glinka Museum) Moscow. Federal State Budgetary Institution of Culture Russian National Museum of Music (без запятой).

14. Tikhon Khrennikov and Maria Yudina, autumn 1962. Photo taken by Khrennikov’s wife, Klara Vaks. In archival collection of RNMM (Glinka Museum) Moscow. Federal State Budgetary Institution of Culture Russian National Museum of Music (без запятой).

15. Yudina’s desk-cum-dining table at her flat on Rostovskaya Embankment, 1967. Photo taken by Yakov Nazarov. Collection of Yakov Nazarov.

16. Yudina reading from the Gospel at Pasternak’s grave on the 10th anniversary of his death, 30 May 1970. Collection of Yakov Nazarov.