1 Ocherki istorii Leningrada (Sketches of the History of Leningrad), vol. 3 (Moscow and Leningrad, 1956), p. 104.
2 Benois, Moi vospominaniia (My Reminiscences), vol. 2 (bks. 4-5), p. 412.
3 Quoted in Panorama iskusstv (Panorama of the Arts), issue 4 (Moscow, 1981), p. 32.
4 Akhmatova, Sochineniia (Works), 2 vols., vol. 2, p. 253.
5 Nathan Milstein, in conversation with the author, New York, 1987.
6 Sergei Prokofiev, Avtobiografiia (Autobiography) (Moscow, 1973), p. 538.
7 M. F. Gnesin, Stat’i. Vospominaniia. Materialy (Articles. Reminiscences. Materials) (Moscow, 1961), p. 141.
8 Prokofiev, Avtobiografiia (Autobiography), pp. 503-4.
9 I. F. Stravinsky, Stat’i i materialy (Articles and Materials) (Moscow, 1973), p. 445.
10 N. A. Berdyaev, Samopoznanie (opyt filosofskoi biografii) (Self-Cognition [An Attempt at a Philosophical Biography]) (Moscow, 1991), p. 144.
11 Alexander Blok, Zapisnye knizhki, 1901-1920 (Notebooks, 1901-1920) (Moscow, 1965), p. 126.
12 Ibid., p. 118.
13 Kornei Chukovsky, Sobranie sochinenii (Collected Works), 6 vols., vol. 6 (Moscow, 1969), pp. 122, 124.
14 Quoted in N. M. Zorkaia, Na rubezhe stoletii. U istokov massovogo iskusstva v Rossii 1900-1910 godov (At the Turn of the Century: At the Source of Mass Art in Russia 1900-1910) (Moscow, 1976), p. 94.
15 Quoted in A. N. Bokhanov, Burzhuaznaia pressa Rossii i krupnyi kapital: Konets XIX v-1914 g. (The Bourgeois Press in Russia and Major Capital: The Late Nineteenth Century-1914) (Moscow, 1984), p. 40.
16 Quoted in Chukovsky, Sochineniia (Works), vol. 6, p. 146.
17 Quoted in Voprosy literatury (Issues of Literature), 2 (1977), p. 198.
18 Quoted in A. Turkov, A. P. Chekhov i ego vremia (A. P. Chekhov and His Times) (Moscow, 1980), p. 73.
19 Ibid., p. 60.
20 Ibid., p. 54.
21 I. I. Yasinsky, Roman moei zhizni (The Novel of My Life) (Moscow and Leningrad, 1926), p. 280.
22 Nathan Milstein, in conversation with the author, New York, 1980.
23 Quoted in E. A. Dinershtein, “Fabrikant” chitatelei: A. F. Marks (“Manufacturer” of Readers: A. F. Marx) (Moscow, 1986), p. 77.
24 V. V. Vorovskii, Estetika. Literatura. Iskusstvo (Aesthetics. Literature. Art) (Moscow, 1975), p. 255.
25 Chukovsky, Sochineniia (Works), vol. 6, pp. 370-71.
26 Vorovskii, Estetika (Aesthetics), pp. 530-31.
27 D. S. Mirsky, Contemporary Russian Literature, 1881-1925 (London, 1926), p. 151.
28 Anna Akhmatova, in conversation with the author, Komarovo, 1965.
29 Kornei Chukovsky, Iz vospominanii (From Reminiscences) (Moscow, 1959), p. 373.
30 Ibid., p. 371.
31 Quoted in D. Maksimov, Poeziia i proza A. Bloka (Poetry and Prose of A. Blok) (Leningrad, 1975), p. 507.
32 Literaturnoe nasledstvo (Literary Heritage), vol. 92 (in four books), Aleksandr Blok: Novye materialy i issledovaniia (Alexander Blok: New Materials and Research), book 3 (Moscow, 1982), p. 438.
33 V. E. Meyerhold, Stat’i. Pis’ma. Rechi. Besedy (Articles. Letters. Speeches. Conversations), part 1, 1891-1917 (Moscow, 1968), p. 103.
34 Georgii Chulkov, Gody stranstvii. Iz knigi vospominanii (Years of Wanderings: From the Book of Reminiscences) (Moscow, 1930), p. 221.
35 Amanda Haight, Anna Akhmatova: Poeticheskoe stranstvie. Dnevniki, vospominaniia, pis’ma A. Akhmatovoi (Anna Akhmatova: A Poetic Pilgrimage. Diaries, Reminiscences, Letters of A. Akhmatova) (Moscow, 1991), pp. 323, 324-25.
36 Ob Anne Akhmatovoi. Stikhi. Esse. Vospominaniia. Pis’ma (About Anna Akhmatova. Poems. Essays. Reminiscences. Letters) (Leningrad, 1990), p. 33.
37 Joseph Brodsky and Solomon Volkov, Vspominaiia Akhmatovu: Dialogi (Remembering Akhmatova: Dialogues) (Moscow, 1992), p. 35.
38 Quoted in G. A. Tishkin, Zhenskii vopros v Rossii, 50-60-e gody XIX v. (The Women’s Question in Russia, 1850-1860s) (Leningrad, 1984), p. 202.
39 Quoted in E. V. Letenkov, “Literaturnaiia promyshlennost’” Rossii kontsa XIX-nachala XX veka (“Literary Industry” of Russia in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries) (Leningrad, 1988), p. 114.
40 Rech’ (Speech), February 21, 1910.
41 Tamara Ivanova, Moi sovremenniki, kakimi ia ikh znala (My Contemporaries As I Knew Them) (Moscow, 1984), p. 424.
42 V. I. Nemirovich-Danchenko, Na kladbishchakh (In Cemeteries) (Revel, 1922), p. 135.
43 I. A. Bunin, Sobranie sochinenii (Collected Works), 9 vols., vol. 9 (Moscow, 1967), p. 289.
44 Ibid., p. 281.
45 Quoted in Literaturnoe nasledstvo (Literary Heritage), vol. 85, Valerii Briusov (Valery Briusov) (Moscow, 1976), p. 691.
46 Anna Akhmatova, in conversation with the author, Komarovo, 1965.
47 Ibid.
48 Quoted in Pamiatniki kul’tury: novye otkrytiia. Pis’mennost’. Iskusstvo. Arkheologiia. Ezhegodnik-1988 (Cultural Monuments: New Discoveries. Literacy. Art. Archaeology. Annual for 1988) (Moscow, 1989), p. 58.
49 Ibid.
50 Ibid., p. 54.
51 Ibid., p. 59.
52 Quoted in Druzhba narodov (Friendship of the Peoples), 6 (1989), p. 250.
53 Quoted in Anna Saakyants, Marina Tsvetayeva. Stranitsy zhizni i tvorchestva, 1910-1922 (Marina Tsvetayeva: Pages of Her Life and Work, 1910-1922) (Moscow, 1986), p. 88.
54 Valery Briusov, Sobranie sochinenii (Collected Works), 7 vols., vol. 6 (Moscow, 1975), p. 365.
55 N. Gumilyov, Sobranie sochinenii (Collected Works), 4 vols., vol. 4 (Washington, D.C., 1968), p. 262.
56 R. D. Timenchik, Khudozhestvennye printsipy predrevoliutsionnoi poezii Anny Akhmatovoi (Artistic Principles of Anna Akhmatova’s Prerevolutionary Poetry) [Synopsis of dissertation] (Tartu State University, 1982), p. 6.
57 B. Eikhenbaum, O poezii (On Poetry) (Leningrad, 1969), p. 75.
58 Osip Mandelstam, Sochineniia (Works), 2 vols., vol. 2 (Moscow, 1990), pp. 265-66.
59 V. Piast, Vstrechi (Encounters) (Moscow, 1929), p. 157.
60 Aleksandr Blok v vospominaniiakh sovremennikov (Alexander Blok in the Reminiscences of Contemporaries), vol. 2 (Moscow, 1980), pp. 62-63.
61 Quoted in Anatoly Nayman, Rasskazy o Anne Akhmatovoi (Stories About Anna Akhmatova) (Moscow, 1989), p. 200.
62 Blok v vospominaniiakh sovremennikov (Blok in Reminiscences), vol. 2, p. 66.
63 Piast, Vstrechi (Encounters), p. 156.
64 Ob Anne Akhmatovoi (About Anna Akhmatova), p. 74.
65 V. F. Khodasevich, Nekropol’ (Necropolis) (Paris, 1976), p. 10. Reprint.
66 Yu. N. Tynyanov, Poetika. Istoriia literatury. Kino (Poetics. History of Literature. Film) (Moscow, 1977), pp. 118-19.
67 Khodasevich, Nekropol’ (Necropolis), p. 14.
68 Literaturnoe nasledstvo (Literary Heritage), vol. 92, book 4 (Moscow, 1987), p. 572.
69 Ob Anne Akhmatovoi (About Anna Akhmatova), p. 35.
70 Nathan Milstein, in conversation with the author, New York, 1984.
71 V. V. Rozanov, Mysli o literature (Thoughts on Literature) (Moscow, 1989), p. 402.
72 Panorama iskusstv (Panorama of the Arts), issue 12 (Moscow, 1989), p. 192.
73 Ibid.
74 N. N. Punin, Russkoe i sovetskoe iskusstvo (Russian and Soviet Art) (Moscow, 1976), p. 147.
75 Benedikt Livshits, Polutoraglazyi strelets (One-and-a-Half-Eyed Archer) (Leningrad, 1989), p. 538.
76 Punin, Russkoe i sovetskoe iskusstvo (Russian and Soviet Art), p. 150.
77 Panorama iskusstv (Panorama of the Arts), issue 12, p. 183.
78 Nathan Altman, in conversation with the author, Leningrad, 1966.
79 V. P. Verigina, Vospominaniia (Reminiscences) (Leningrad, 1974), p. 173.
80 Il’ia Sats (Ilya Sats) (collection) (Moscow and Leningrad, 1923), p. 20.
81 Livshits, Polutoraglazyi strelets (One-and-a-Half-Eyed Archer), p. 465.
82 Teatr i iskusstvo (Theater and Art), 10 (1913), p. 232.
83 Irina Odoevtseva, Na beregakh Nevy (On the Banks of the Neva) (Washington, D.C., 1967), p. 144.
84 Ibid.
85 Quoted in B. Kats and R. Timenchik, Anna Akhmatova i muzyka. lssledovatel’skie ocherki (Anna Akhmatova and Music. Research Articles) (Leningrad, 1989), p. 39.
86 V. G. Karatygin (collection) (Leningrad, 1927), p. 73.
87 Apollon, 1 (1913), p. 66.
88 Fyodor Lopukhov, in conversation with the author, Leningrad, 1967.
89 Vozdushnye puti (Aerial Paths), issue 5 (New York, 1967), p. 139.
90 Vera Stravinsky, in conversation wtih the author, New York, 1976.
91 Vozdushnye puti (Aerial Paths), issue 5, p. 141.
92 Ibid., pp. 142-43.
93 Nadezhda Mandelstam, Vtoraia kniga (Second Book) (Paris, 1972), p. 510.
94 Quoted in V. Krasovskaia, Russkii baletnyi teatr nachala XX veka (Russian Ballet Theater of the Early Twentieth Century), part 2 (Leningrad, 1972), p. 35.
95 Ibid., p. 47.
96 Ibid., p. 55.
97 Ibid., p. 54.
98 Quoted in Zinaida Serebryakova (collection) (Moscow, 1987), p. 245.
99 Fyodor Lopukhov, Shest’desiat let v balete (Sixty Years in Ballet) (Moscow, 1966), p. 182.
100 Piast, Vstrechi (Encounters), p. 275.
101 Viktor Shklovsky, Zhili-byli (Once upon a Time) (Moscow, 1966), p. 115.
102 Blok, Zapisnye knizbki (Notebooks), p. 237.
103 N. P. Antsiferov, Dusha Peterburga (The Soul of Petersburg) (Petersburg, 1922), pp. 218-19.
104 Livshits, Polutoraglazyi strelets (One-and-a-Half-Eyed Archer), p. 544.
105 Nikolai Gumilyov v vospominaniiakh sovremennikov (Nikolai Gumilyov in the Reminiscences of Contemporaries) (collection) (Paris, New York, and Düsseldorf, 1989), p. 215.
106 N. Wrangel, Vospominaniia (Reminiscences) (Berlin, 1924), p. 210.
107 Sovremennye zapiski (Contemporary Notes), 18 (1924), p. 235.
108 Quoted in K. Rudnitskii, Meierhol’d (Meyerhold) (Moscow, 1981), p. 216.
109 Leonid Dolgopolov, in conversation with the author, New York, 1990.
110 Yu. M. Yuryev, Zapiski (Notes), vol. 2 (Leningrad and Moscow, 1963), p. 194.
111 Quoted in K. Rudnitskii, Rezhisser Meierhol’d (Meyerhold the Director) (Moscow, 1969), pp. 200-202.
112 Viktor Shklovsky, in conversation with the author, Moscow, 1975.
113 Quoted in Avangard, ostanovlennyi na begu (The Avant-Garde, Halted in Mid-Run) (Leningrad, 1989), p. 2.
114 Literaturnoe nasledstvo (Literary Heritage), vol. 80, V. I. Lenin i A. V. Lunacharskii. Perepiska, doklady, dokumenty (V. I. Lenin and A. V. Lunacharsky. Correspondence, Speeches, Documents) (Moscow, 1971), p. 260.
115 A. Blok, Dnevnik (Diary) (Moscow, 1989), pp. 267-68.
116 Dekrety Sovetskoi vlasti o Petrograde, 25 oktiabria [7 noiabria] 1917 g.-29 dekabria 1918 (Soviet Decrees Regarding Petrograd, 25 October [7 November] 1917-29 December 1918) (Leningrad, 1986), pp. 126-27.
117 Nikolai Martyanov, in conversation with the author, New York, 1976,
118 D. L. Golinkov, Krushenie antisovetskogo podpol’ia v SSSR (The Collapse of the Anti-Soviet Underground in the USSR), book 1 (Moscow, 1978), p. 186.
119 Dekrety Sovetskoi vlasti o Petrograde (Soviet Decrees on Petrograd), pp. 149-50.
120 Literaturnoe nasledstvo (Literary Heritage), vol. 80, p. 58.
121 Quoted in S. Varshavskii, B. Rest, Bilet na vsiu vechnost’ (Ticket to All Eternity), parts 1-2 (Leningrad, 1986), p. 149.
122 Ibid., p. 160.
123 Antsiferov, Dusha Peterburga (Soul of Petersburg), p. 219.
124 Maksim Gor’kii v vospominaniiakh sovremennikov (Maxim Gorky in Reminiscences of Contemporaries), 2 vols., vol. 2 (Moscow, 1981), p. 23.
125 V. I. Lenin o literature (V. I. Lenin on Literature) (Moscow, 1971), p. 160.
126 Quoted in Kontinent, 55 (1988), p. 195.
127 S. N. Semanov, Likvidatsiia antisovetskogo Kronshtadskogo miatezha 1921 goda (The Liquidation of the Anti-Soviet Kronstadt Rebellion of 1921) (Moscow, 1973), p. 25.
128 Yuri Annenkov, Dnevnik moikh vstrech (Diary of My Encounters), vol. 1 (New York, 1966), p. 34.
129 A. P. Ostroumova-Lebedeva, Autobiograficheskie zapiski (Autobiographical Notes), vol. 3 (Moscow, 1974), p. 22.
130 A. V. Lunacharsky, Vospominaniia i vpechatleniia (Reminiscences and Impressions) (Moscow, 1968), p. 210.
131 Nathan Altman, in conversation with the author, Leningrad, 1966.
132 A. I. Piotrovsky, Za sovetskii teatr! (For the Soviet Theater!) (Leningrad, 1925), pp. 51-52.
133 M. Gorky, V. I. Lenin (Moscow, 1974), p. 37.
134 Quoted in Andrei Bely, Peterburg (Moscow, 1981), p. 528.
135 Alexander Bakhrakh, Bunin v khalate. Po pamiati, po zapisiam (Bunin in a Robe. From Memory, From Notes) (New Jersey, 1979), p. 109.
136 Blok, Dnevnik (Diary), p. 186.
137 Alexander Blok, Sobranie sochinenii (Collected Works), 8 vols., vol. 8, Pis’ma, 1898-1921 (Moscow and Leningrad, 1963), pp. 130-31.
138 Blok, Dnevnik (Diary), p. 121.
139 Literaturnoe nasledstvo (Literary Heritage), vol. 92, book 3, p. 478.
140 Blok, Zapisnye knizhki (Notebooks), p. 406.
141 V. M. Zhirmunsky, Tvorchestvo Anny Akhmatovoi (The Work of Anna Akhmatova) (Leningrad, 1973), p. 97.
142 Quoted in Osip Mandelstam, Sochineniia (Works), 2 vols., vol. 1 (Moscow, 1990), p. 42.
143 V. Milashevsky, Vchera, pozavchera … (Yesterday, Day Before Yesterday …) (Moscow, 1989), p. 239.
144 Dobuzhinsky, Vospominanya (Reminiscences), p. 23.
145 Ibid.
146 N. N. Evreinov, Original o portretistakh (A Model About His Portraitists) (Petrograd, 1922), p. 55.
147 Milashevsky, Vchera, pozavchera (Yesterday, Day Before Yesterday), p. 180.
148 Semanov, Likvidatsiia antisovetskogo Kronshtadskogo miatezha (Liquidation of the Anti-Soviet Kronstadt Rebellion), p. 69.
149 Annenkov, Dnevnik moikh vstrech (Diary of my Encounters), vol. 1, pp. 75-78.
150 Literaturnoe nasledstvo (Literary Heritage), vol. 92, book 4, p. 273.
151 Quoted in Nikolai Gumilyov v vospominaniiakh sovremennikov (Gumilyov in the Reminiscences of Contemporaries), p. 216.
152 Georgii Ivanov, Stikhotvoreniia. Tretii Rim. Peterburgskie zimy. Kitaiskie teni (Poems. Third Rome. Petersburg Winters. Chinese Shadows) (Moscow, 1989), p. 440.
153 Literaturnoe nasledstvo (Literary Heritage), vol. 92, book 3, p. 478.
154 Quoted in Anna Akhmatova, Requiem (Moscow, 1989), p. 31.
155 Ob Anne Akhmatovoi (About Anna Akhmatova), p. 135.
156 Odoevtseva, Na beregakh Nevy (On the Banks of the Neva), pp. 477-78.
157 Quoted in Daugava, 8 (1990), p. 118.
158 Blok, Dnevnik (Diary), p. 321.
159 Annenkov, Dnevnik moikh vstrech (Diary of My Encounters), vol. 1, p. 74.
160 Chaliapin, Maska i dusha (Mask and Soul), p. 288.
161 Ibid., p. 294.
162 Alexander Blok, Sobranie sochinenii (Collected Works), 8 vols., vol. 6 (Moscow and Leningrad, 1962), p. 167.
163 Literaturnoe nasledstvo (Literary Heritage), vol. 80, p. 261.
164 Blok, Sobranie sochinenii (Collected Works), vol. 8, p. 537.
165 Ibid., p. 539.
166 Literaturnoe nasledstvo (Literary Heritage), vol. 92, book 2 (Moscow, 1981), p. 164.
167 Daugava, 11 (1990), pp. 91-93.
168 Khodasevich, Nekropol’ (Necropolis), p. 122.
169 Ogonyok, 18 (1990), p. 14.
170 Ibid., p. 15.
171 Daugava, 8 (1990), pp. 120, 122.
172 Victor Serge, Memoirs of a Revolutionary (London, 1984), p. 150.
173 Vozvrashchennye imena (Returned Names) [anthology], book 1 (Moscow, 1989), p. 191.
174 Nina Bruni-Balmont, in conversation with the author, Moscow, 1974.
175 Ob Anne Akhmatovoi (About Anna Akhmatova), pp. 197-98.
176 Quoted in Anna Akhmatova, Poema bez geroiia (Poem Without a Hero) (Moscow, 1989), p. 11.
177 K. Chukovsky, Dnevnik, 1901-1929 (Diary, 1901-1929) (Moscow, 1991), p. 143.
178 Ibid., p. 194.
179 Literaturnoe nasledstvo (Literary Heritage), vol. 92, book 3, p. 816.
180 Quoted in Saakyants, Marina Tsvetaeva, p. 310.
181 Odoevtseva, Na beregakh Nevy (On the Banks of the Neva), p. 480.
182 Ibid., p. 473.
183 Ibid., pp. 480-81.