1 George Balanchine, in conversation with the author, New York, 1981.
2 Ibid.
3 Marquis de Custine, Empire of the Czar (New York, 1989), p. 106.
4 M. M. Zagoskin, Roslavlev, ili Russkie v 1812 godu (Roslavlev; or, Russians in 1812) (Moscow, 1955), p. 48.
5 Quoted in Ospovat and Timenchik, “Pechal’nu povest’ sokhranit’…” (“To Preserve the Sorrowful Tale”), p. 263.
6 Ibid.
7 Igor Stravinsky and Robert Craft, Memories and Commentaries (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1981), p. 30. Reprint.
8 Benois, Moi vospominaniia (My Reminiscences), vol. 1 (bks. 1-3), p. 13.
9 Quoted in V. Krasovskaia, Istoriia russkogo baleta (History of Russian Ballet) (Leningrad, 1978), p. 15.
10 Quoted in A. Gozenpud, Russkii opernyi teatr XIX veka, 1836-1856 (Russian Opera Theater of the Nineteenth Century, 1836-1856) (Leningrad, 1969), p. 77.
11 Ibid.
12 Quoted in V. Krasovskaia, Istoriia russkogo baleta (History of Russian Ballet), pp. 64-65.
13 Quoted in O. Petrov, Russkaia baletnaia kritika kontsa XVIII-pervoi poloviny XIX veka (Russian Ballet Criticism of the Late Eighteenth-First Half of the Nineteenth Centuries) (Moscow, 1982), p. 146.
14 Yu. M. Lotman, Stat’i po tipologii kul’tury (Articles on the Typology of Culture), issue 2 (Tartu, 1973), p. 64.
15 Quoted in Mikheil Gorgidze, Gruziny v Peterburge (Georgians in Petersburg) (Tbilisi, 1976), p. 104.
16 George Balanchine, in conversation with the author, New York, 1982.
17 Ibid.
18 Marius Petipa, Materialy. Vospominaniia. Stat’i (Materials. Reminiscences. Articles) (Leningrad, 1971), p. 90.
19 Ibid.
20 V. Gayevsky, Divertisment (Divertissement) (Moscow, 1981), p. 79.
21 Ibid., p. 70.
22 Petipa, Materialy (Materials), p. 68.
23 Quoted in Yu. Slonimsky, P. I. Chaikovskii i baletnyi teatr ego vremeni (P. I. Tchaikovsky and the Ballet Theater of His Times) (Moscow, 1956), p. 121.
24 Ibid., p. 9.
25 George Balanchine, in conversation with the author, New York, 1982.
26 Alexandra Danilova, in conversation with the author, New York, 1986.
27 Sergei Diagilev i russkoe iskusstvo (Sergei Diaghilev and Russian Art) [collection], 2 vols., vol. 2 (Moscow, 1982), p. 100.
28 Quoted in V. Krasovskaia, Russkii baletnyi teatr nachala XX veka (Russian Ballet Theater of the Early Twentieth Century), 2 vols., vol. 1 (Leningrad, 1971), p. 361.
29 Stravinsky and Craft, Memories and Commentaries, p. 36.
30 Stravinsky, Stat’i i materialy (Articles and Materials), p. 462.
31 Ibid.
32 Apollon, 6 (1911), p. 74.
33 Stravinsky and Craft, Expositions and Developments, p. 135.
34 Quoted in Nesta Macdonald, Diaghilev Observed by Critics in England and the United States, 1911-1929 (New York, 1975), p. 76.
35 Ibid.
36 Fyodor Lopukhov, in conversation with the author, Leningrad, 1967.
37 M. Fokine, Protiv techeniia. Vospominaniia baletmeistera. Stat’i, pis’ma (Against the Current. Reminiscences of a Choreographer. Articles, Letters) (Leningrad and Moscow, 1962), p. 93.
38 Fyodor Lopukhov, in conversation with the author, Leningrad, 1967.
39 Alexandra Danilova, in conversation with the author, New York, 1991.
40 Quoted in Yurii Alianskii, Teatral’nye legendy (Theater Legends) (Moscow, 1973), p. 164.
41 Quoted in Samuil Alianskii, Vstrechi s Aleksandrom Blokom (Encounters with Alexander Blok) (Moscow, 1972), p. 11.
42 Quoted in Voprosy literatury (Issues of Literature), 2 (1974), p. 117.
43 Andrei Bely, Simvolizm (Symbolism) (Moscow, 1910), p. 212.
44 Ibid., p. 172.
45 Quoted in N. Khardzhiev and V. Trenin, Poeticheskaia kul’tura Maiakovskogo (Poetic Culture of Mayakovsky) (Moscow, 1970), p. 32.
46 Boris Pasternak, Vozdushnye puti (Aerial Paths) (Moscow, 1982), p. 264.
47 Shklovsky, Zhili-Byli (Once upon a Time), p. 301. v monodramu (Introduction to Monodrama) (St. Petersburg, 1909), p. 8.
48 N. Evreinov, Vvedenie v monodramu (Introduction to Monodrama) (St. Petersburg, 1909), p.8.
49 Livshits, Polutoraglazyi strelets (One-and-a-Half-Eyed Archer), p. 446.
50 Quoted in Pavel Nikolaevich Filonov, Katalog vystavki (Exhibit Catalogue) (Leningrad, 1988), p. 22.
51 Quoted in V. Maiakovskii v vospominaniiakh sovremennikov (Mayakovsky in Reminiscences of Contemporaries) (Moscow, 1963), p. 111.
52 Pasternak, Vozdushnye puti (Aerial Paths), p. 269.
53 Maiakovskii v vospominaniiakh sovremennikov (Mayakovsky in Reminiscences of Contemporaries), p. 625.
54 Quoted in A. Fevral’skii, Pervaia sovetskaia p’esa: “Misteriia-buff” V. V. Maiakovskogo (The First Soviet Play: Mayakovsky’s Mystery-Bouffe) (Moscow, 1971), p. 11.
55 Milashevsky, Vchera, pozavchera (Yesterday, Day Before Yesterday), p. 84.
56 Ibid., pp. 121, 120.
57 Quoted in Ezhegodnik rukopisnogo otdela Pushkinskogo Doma na 1974 god (Yearbook of the Manuscript Department of Pushkin House for 1974) (Leningrad, 1976), p. 187.
58 Ibid., pp. 185-86.
59 Ibid., p. 192.
60 Panorama iskusstv (Panorama of the Arts), issue 12, p. 183.
61 Milashevsky, Vchera, pozavchera (Yesterday, Day Before Yesterday), p. 117.
62 Panorama iskusstv (Panorama of the Arts), issue 12, p. 193.
63 Ibid., p. 194.
64 Nina Bruni-Balmont, in conversation with the author, Moscow, 1974.
65 Quoted in Ezhegodnik rukopisnogo otdela Pushkinskogo Doma na 1974 god (Yearbook of the Manuscript Department of Pushkin House for 1974), p. 183.
66 A. N. Efros, Mastera raznykh epokh (Masters of Various Eras) (Moscow, 1979), p. 249.
67 Quoted in Ezhegodnik rukopisnogo ordela Pushkinskogo Doma na 1974 god (Yearbook of the Manuscript Department of Pushkin House for 1974), p. 183.
68 Ibid., p. 182.
69 Quoted in Literaturnoe nasledstvo (Literary Heritage), vol. 65, Novoe o Maiiakovskom (New Materials About Mayakovsky) (Moscow, 1958), p. 565.
70 Ibid., p. 586.
71 Annenkov, Dnevnik moikh vstrech (Diary of My Encounters), vol. 2, pp. 49-50.
72 Viktor Shklovsky, Khod konia (Knight Move) (Moscow and Berlin, 1923), p. 137.
73 Tamara Geva, in conversation with the author, New York, 1991.
74 P. M. Kerzhentsev, Tvorcheskii teatr (Creative Theater) (Petersburg, 1920), p. 137.
75 A. Lunacharsky, Rasskazy o Lenine (Stories About Lenin) (Moscow, 1971), p. 44.
76 Literaturnoe nasledstvo (Literary Heritage), vol. 80, p. 369.
77 Yu. Slonimsky, Chudesnoe bylo riadom s nami (The Marvelous Was Right next to Us) (Leningrad, 1984), p. 147.
78 George Balanchine, in conversation with the author, New York, 1981.
79 Viktor Shklovsky, Gamburgskii schet. Stat’i-Vospominaniia-Esse, 1914-1933 (Hamburg Rules. Articles, Reminiscences, Essays, 1914-1933) (Moscow, 1990), p. 44.
80 Piast, Vstrechi (Encounters), p. 277.
81 Shklovsky, Gamburgskii schet (Hamburg Rules), p. 486.
82 Piast, Vstrechi (Encounters), p. 250.
83 Viktor Shklovsky, O teorii prozy (On a Theory of Prose) (Moscow, 1983), p. 72.
84 Shklovsky, Zhili-byli (Once upon a Time), p. 288.
85 Shklovsky, Gamburgskii schet (Hamburg Rules), p. 63.
86 D. S. Mirsky, Uncollected Writings on Russian Literature (Berkeley, 1989), p. 226.
87 Mandelstam, Sochineniia (Works), vol. 2, p. 273.
88 Peterburg, 2 (1922), p. 14.
89 George Balanchine, in conversation with the author, New York, 1982.
90 Konst. Fedin, Sobranie sochinenii (Collected Works), 10 vols., vol. 10 (Moscow, 1973), p. 128.
91 Slonimsky, Chudesnoe bylo riadom s nami (The Marvelous Was Right next to Us), p. 17.
92 Milashevsky, Vchera, pozavchera (Yesterday, Day Before Yesterday), p. 218.
93 Slonimsky, Chudesnoe bylo riadom s nami (The Marvelous Was Right next to Us), p. 135.
94 Valerian Bogdanov-Berezovsky, in conversation with the author, Leningrad, 1970.
95 Alexandra Danilova, in conversation with the author, New York, 1991.
96 George Balanchine, in conversation with the author, New York, 1982.
97 Quoted in Muzyka i khoreografiia sovremennogo baleta (Music and Choreography of Modern Ballet) [collection] (Leningrad, 1974), p. 165.
98 Alexandra Danilova, in conversation with the author, New York, 1991.
99 I. Sollertinsky, Stat’i o balete (Articles on Ballet) (Leningrad, 1973), pp. 18-19.
100 Slonimsky, Chudesnoe bylo riadom s nami (The Marvelous Was Right next to Us), p. 200.
101 Fyodor Lopukhov, Shest’desiat let v balete (Sixty Years in the Ballet) (Moscow, 1966), p. 14.
102 Ibid., p. 13.
103 Quoted in E. Ia. Surits, Khoreograficheskoe iskusstvo dvadtsatykh godov (The Art of Choreography of the Twenties) (Moscow, 1979), p. 284.
104 Sollertinsky, Stat’i o balete (Articles on Ballet), p. 29.
105 Ibid., p. 26.
106 Lopukhov, Shest’desiat let v balete (Sixty Years in the Ballet), p. 33.
107 Quoted in Surits, Khoreograficheskoe iskusstvo dvadtsatykh godov (The Art of Choreography of the Twenties), pp. 66-67.
108 Teatr, 13 (1923), p. 7.
109 Teatr, 1 (1924), pp. 6-7.
110 Quoted in M. Dolinskii, Sviaz’ vremen (Connections of Times) (Moscow, 1976), p. 122.
111 Alexandra Danilova, in conversation with the author, New York, 1992.
112 Fyodor Lopukhov, in conversation with the author, Leningrad, 1967.
113 George Balanchine, in conversation with the author, New York, 1982.
114 V. Bogdanov-Berezovsky, Vstrechi (Encounters) (Moscow, 1967), p. 250.
115 M. Mikhailov, Zhizn’ v balete (Life in the Ballet) (Leningrad and Moscow, 1966), p. 44.
116 Quoted in V. I. Berezkin, V. V. Dmitriev (Leningrad, 1981), p. 13.
117 George Balanchine, in conversation with the author, New York, 1981.
118 Alexandra Danilova, in conversation with the author, New York, 1992.
119 Quoted in Slonimsky, Chudesnoe bylo riadom s nami (The Marvelous Was Right next to Us), p. 214.
120 Mikhailov, Zhizn’ v balete (Life in the Ballet), pp. 44-45.
121 Quoted in U istokov (At the Sources) [collection] (Moscow, 1960), p. 129.
122 Shklovsky, Gamburgskii schet (Hamburg Rules), p. 175.
123 George Balanchine, in conversation with the author, New York, 1982.
124 A. V. Lunacharsky, Sobranie sochinenii (Collected Works), 8 vols., vol. 7 (Moscow, 1967), p. 502.
125 George Balanchine, in conversation with the author, New York, 1981.
126 Ibid.
127 Quoted in Slonimsky, Chudesnoe bylo riadom s nami (The Marvelous Was Right next to Us), p. 182.
128 Ibid., p. 186.
129 Lopukhov, Shest’desiat let v balete (Sixty Years in the Ballet), p. 188.
130 Vladimir Mayakovsky, Polnoe sobranie sochinenii (Complete Collected Works), 13 vols., vol. 4 (Moscow, 1957), p. 253.
131 S. S. Prokofiev and N. Ya. Miaskovsky, Perepiska (Correspondence) (Moscow, 1977), p. 281.
132 Stravinsky and Craft, Expositions and Developments, p. 83.
133 Igor Stravinsky, An Autobiography (New York and London, 1962), p. 100.
134 Ibid., pp. 99-100.
135 Lincoln Kirstein, Dance: A Short History of Classic Theatrical Dancing (New York, 1969), p. 257.
136 Richard Buckle, George Balanchine, Ballet Master (New York, 1988), p. 68.
137 Stravinsky, Stat’i i materialy (Articles and Materials), p. 391.
138 Stravinsky and Craft, Expositions and Developments, pp. 34-35.
139 Ibid., p. 21.
140 Ibid., p. 32.
141 Portrait of Mr. B: Photographs of George Balanchine, with an essay by Lincoln Kirstein (New York, 1984), p. 16.
142 Igor Stravinsky, Themes and Conclusions (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1982), p. 34. Reprint.
143 Arlene Croce, Afterimages (New York, 1977), p. 419.
144 Nathan Milstein, in conversation with the author, New York, 1984.
145 Nathan Milstein, in conversation with the author, New York, 1986.