1 Vsevolod Vishnevsky, Sobranie sochinenii (Collected Works), 5 vols., vol. 6 (additional) (Moscow, 1961), pp. 164-65.
2 Milashevsky, Vchera, pozavchera (Yesterday, Day Before Yesterday), p. 253.
3 Blair A. Ruble, Leningrad: Shaping a Soviet City (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1990), p. 59.
4 Harrison Salisbury, in conversation with the author, New York, 1977.
5 Doklad t. Zhdanova o zhurnalakh “Zvezda” i “Leningrad” (Comrade Zhdanov’s Report on the Journals Zvezda and Leningrad), pp. 32-33.
6 Teatr, 8 (1988),p. 143.
7 Quoted in Konstantin Simonov, Glazami cheloveka moego pokoleniia (Through the Eyes of a Man of My Generation) (Moscow, 1990), p. 111.
8 Zvezda (Star), 6 (1989), p. 167.
9 B. Eikhenbaum, O literature (On Literature) (Moscow, 1987), p. 28.
10 Tynianovskii sbornik (Tynyanov Anthology), issue 3 (Riga, 1988), p. 218.
11 Sergei Yutkevich, in conversation with the author, Moscow, 1976.
12 Quoted in Iz istorii Lenfil’ma (From the History of Lenfilm), issue 2 (Leningrad, 1970), p. 29.
13 Ibid.
14 L. Trauberg, Fil’m nachinaetsia … (The Film Is Beginning) (Moscow, 1977), p. 209.
15 Kozintsev, Sobranie sochinenii (Collected Works), vol. 4, pp. 253-54.
16 Sergei Yutkevich, in conversation with the author, Moscow, 1976.
17 Iz istorii Lenfil’ma (From the History of Lenfilm), issue 4 (Leningrad, 1975), p. 99.
18 Sergei Yutkevich, in conversation with the author, Moscow, 1976.
19 Trauberg, Fil’m nachinaetsia (The Film Is Beginning), p. 101.
20 G. Mar’iamov, Kremlevskii tsenzor (Kremlin Censor) (Moscow, 1992), p. 33.
21 Ibid., p. 35.
22 Lydia Chukovskaya, Zapiski ob Anne Akhmatovoi (Notes on Anna Akhmatova), vol. 2 (Paris, 1980), p. 215.
23 Novyi mir (New World), 3 (1990), p. 263.
24 Chukovskaya, Zapiski of Akhmatovoi (Notes on Akhmatova), vol. 1, p. 47.
25 Nathan Altman, in conversation with the author, Leningrad, 1966.
26 N. Ia. Berkovsky, Literatura i teatr (Literature and Theater) (Moscow, 1969), p. 446.
27 Nathan Altman, in conversation with the author, Leningrad, 1966.
28 Kozintsev, Sobranie sochinenii (Collected Works), vol. 4, p. 264.
29 Ibid., pp. 264-65.
30 Sergei Yutkevich, in conversation with the author, Moscow, 1976.
31 Nathan Altman, in conversation with the author, Leningrad, 1966.
32 Akhmatovskii sbornik (Akhmatova Anthology), issue 1 (Paris, 1989), p. 118.
33 Cf. V. N. Toporov, Akhmatova i Blok (Akhmatova and Blok) (Berkeley, 1981).
34 Cf. Brodsky and Volkov, Vspominaiia Akhmatovu (Remembering Akhmatova), pp. 36-38.
35 Irina Graham, in conversation with the author, New York, 1978.
36 Anna Akhmatova, in conversation with the author, Komarovo, 1965.
37 Dmitri Shostakovich, in conversation with the author, Moscow, 1973.
38 E. Dobin, Siuzhet i deistvitel’nost’ (Plot and Reality) (Leningrad, 1976), p. 145.
39 Quoted in V. Vilenkin, V sto pervom zerkale (In the One Hundred and First Mirror) (Moscow, 1987), p. 237.
40 A. Afanas’ev, Poeticheskie vozzreniia slavian na prirodu (Poetic Visions of the Slavs on Nature), vol. 2 (Moscow, 1868), p. 85.
41 Quoted in Vozdushnye puti (Aerial Paths), issue 4 (New York, 1965), p. 280.
42 Joseph Brodsky, in conversation with the author, New York, 1982.
43 Vozdushnye puti (Aerial Paths), issue 4, p. 283.
44 Ibid., p. 303.
45 Literaturnaya gazeta (Literary Gazette), May 5, 1993.
46 Andrei Bitov, in conversation with the author, New York, 1988.
47 Yevgeny Rein, in conversation with the author, New York, 1988.
48 Joseph Brodsky, in conversation with the author, New York, 1981.
49 Joseph Brodsky, in conversation with the author, Washington, D.C., 1992.
50 Ibid.
51 Joseph Brodsky, in conversation with the author, New York, 1981.
52 Iosif Brodskii razmerom podlinnika (Joseph Brodsky in Original Meter) (Tallinn, 1990), p. 168.
53 Joseph Brodsky, in conversation with the author, New York, 1981.
54 Ibid.
55 Kirill Kondrashin, in conversation with the author, Washington, D.C., 1980.
56 George Balanchine, in conversation with the author, New York, 1982.
57 Maxim Shostakovich, in conversation with the author, New York, 1986.
58 Shvarts, Zhivu bespokoino (I Live Anxiously), p. 298.
59 Irina Kichanova-Lifshits, Prosti menia za to, chto ia zhivu (Forgive Me for Being Alive) (New York, 1982), p. 37.
60 Novyi mir (New World), 6 (1992), p. 101.
61 Tynianovskii sbornik (Tynyanov Anthology), issue 3, p. 210.
62 Shvarts, Zhivu bespokoino (I Live Anxiously), p. 630.
63 Kichanova-Lifshits, Prosti menia (Forgive Me), p. 49.
64 Shvarts, Zhivu bespokoino (I Live Anxiously), p. 117.
65 Berkovsky, Literatura i teatr (Literature and Theater), p. 566.
66 Sollertinsky, Stat’i o balete (Articles on Ballet), p. 90.
67 Ibid., p. 96.
68 Quoted in Konstantin Sergeyev, Sbornik statei (Collection of Articles) (Moscow, 1978), p. 154.
69 Rudolf Nureyev, in conversation with the author, New York, 1986.
70 Ibid.
71 George Balanchine, in conversation with the author, New York, 1982.
72 Ibid.
73 Joseph Brodsky, in conversation with the author, New York, 1981.
74 Yuri Grigorovich, in conversation with the author, New York, 1990.
75 Literaturnaya gazeta (Literary Gazette), May 5, 1993.
76 Brodsky and Volkov, Vspominaia Akhmatovu (Remembering Akhmatova), p. 49.
77 Ibid., p. 48.
78 Ibid.
79 Joseph Brodsky, in conversation with the author, New York, 1981.
80 Ibid.
81 Quoted in Neva, 2 (1989), p. 166.
82 Ibid.
83 Anatolii Afanas’ev, Polyn’ v chuzhikh poliakh (Wormwood in Alien Fields) (Moscow, 1984), p. 248.
84 Joseph Brodsky, in conversation with the author, New York, 1981.
85 Solomon Volkov, Iosif Broskii v N’iu-Iorke (Joseph Brodsky in New York) (New York, 1990), p. 20.
86 Ibid., p. 50.
87 Joseph Brodsky, in conversation with the author, New York, 1988.
88 New Criterion, 1986, special summer issue, p. 11.
89 Joseph Brodsky, in conversation with the author, Washington, D.C., 1991.
90 Literaturnaya gazeta (Literary Gazette), May 5, 1993.
91 Nikolai Chukovsky, Literaturnye vospominaniia (Literary Reminiscences), p. 46,
92 Iosif Brodskii razmerom podlinnika (Joseph Brodsky in Original Meter), p. 179.
93 Pushkin v vospominaniiakh sovremennikov (Pushkin in Reminiscences of Contemporaries), vol. 1, p. 120.
94 Quoted in Vas. Bazanov, Russkie revoliutsionnye demokraty i narodoznanie (Russian Revolutionary Democrats and Knowing the People) (Leningrad, 1974), p. 316.
95 Ibid., p. 396.
96 Knizhnoe obozrenie (Book Review), June 16, 1989.
97 Ibid.
98 Andrei Bitov, in conversation with the author, New York, 1988.
99 Ibid.
100 Ibid.
101 Andrei Bitov, in conversation with the author, New York, 1992.
102 Ibid.
103 Ibid.
104 Andrei Bitov, in conversation with the author, New York, 1988.
105 Viktor Sosnora, in conversation with the author, New York, 1987.
106 Andrei Bitov, in conversation with the author, New York, 1992.
107 Ibid.
108 Joseph Brodsky, in conversation with the author, New York, 1981.
109 Konstantin Kuzminsky, in conversation with the author, New York, 1993.
110 Ibid.
111 Ibid.
112 Alexander Zhitinsky, Puteshestvie rok-diletanta (Travels of a Rock Dilettante) (Leningrad, 1990), p. 403.
113 Ibid.
114 Vladimir Rekshan, Kaif polnyi (Total High), (Leningrad, 1990), p. 23.
115 Ibid., p. 38.
116 Ibid., p. 125.
117 Anatoly Sobchak, Khozhdenie vo vlast’ (Taking Power) (Moscow, 1991), p. 214.
118 Yu. Karyakin, Dostoevskii i kanun XXI veka (Dostoyevsky and the Eve of the Twenty-first Century) (Moscow, 1989), p. 606.
119 Sobchak, Khozhdenie vo vlast’ (Taking Power), p. 65.
120 Tsarstvennoe slovo: Akhmatovskie chteniia (Royal Word: Akhmatova’s Readings), issue 1 (Moscow, 1992), p. 41.
121 Moskovskie novosti (Moscow News), May 1, 1988.
122 Literaturnaya gazeta (Literary Gazette), August 17, 1988.
123 Komsomolskaya pravda (Komsomol Pravda), March 19, 1988.
124 Nezavisimaia gazeta (Independent Newspaper), July 16, 1992.
125 Vechernii Minsk (Evening Minsk), June 5, 1991.
126 Yegor Ligachev, in conversation with the author, New York, 1991.
127 Sovetskaia Rossiia (Soviet Russia), July 5, 1991.
128 Novoye Russkoye Slovo (New Russian Word), December 12, 1990.
129 Joseph Brodsky, in conversation with the author, Washington, D.C., 1991.
130 Ibid.
131 Novoye Russkoye Slovo (New Russian Word), October 22, 1993.
132 L. N. Gumilyov, Ot Rusi do Rossii (From Rus to Russia) (St. Petersburg, 1992), p. 255.
133 Ibid., p. 256.
134 Andrei Bitov, My prosnulis’ v neznakomoi strane (We Awakened in an Unfamiliar Land) (Leningrad, 1991), p. 38.
135 G. P. Fedotov, Sud’ba i grekhi Rossii: Izbrannye stat’i po filosofii russkoi istorii i kul’tury (Russia’s Fate and Sins: Selected Articles on the Philosophy of Russian History and Culture), vol. 2 (St. Petersburg, 1991), p. 146.
136 Joseph Brodsky, in conversation with the author, New York, 1988.
137 Ogonyok (Little Flame), 24 (1990), p. 10.
138 Bitov, My prosnulis’ (We Awakened), p. 58.
139 Iskusstvo Leningrada (Art of Leningrad), 1 (1991), p. 53.
140 Joseph Brodsky, in conversation with the author, Washington, D.C., 1992.
141 Ibid.