by Coryne Hall
16. DIP, 72; Volkonsky vol. 2, 95
17. Volkonsky vol. 2, 95
18. Volkonsky vol. 2, 97
19. DIP, 72
20. Volkonsky vol. 2, 94
21. Smakov, 61; DIP, 74
22. Krasovskaya, 43; Bremser, vol. 1, 787
23. Krasovskaya, 43
24. Vospominaniia, 100
25. Volkonsky vol. 2, 98
26. King, ‘Glory…’
27. Alexander Palace website: Diary, 10 & 13 February 1900
Chapter Six
1. Kurth, Anastasia, 164; Chavchavadze, 241
2. Nijinska, 93
3. Kyasht, 127
4. DIP, 79
5. DIP, 79
6. DIP, 73
7. Hunter and Chakrabongse, 35
8. Hunter and Chakrabongse, 35–6
9. Hunter and Chakrabongse, 36
10. Hunter and Chakrabongse, 37
11. King, ‘Glory…’
12. Perry and Pleshakov, 70; Story told to Mary Clarke by Sir Frederick Ashton
13. Danilova, 38
14. Communication from Natalia Makarova
15. Benois, 216–17
16. Volkonsky vol. 2, 93–4
17. Volkonsky vol. 2, 94
18. DIP, 82; King, ‘Glory…’
19. Rodina, No. 1. 1993, 79; Volkonsky vol. 2, 100
20. Volkonsky vol. 2, 103
21. Karsarvina, 83, 109
22. Clarke and Crisp, 84; Krasovskaya, 34
23. Chuparron, ‘Liubovnitsa Poslednego…’; Vulf, ‘Personazhi Legenda’
24. Vospominaniia, 116; DIP, 85
25. Buckle, Nijinsky, 21–2; Money, 28
26. DIP, 89
27. Buckle, Diaghilev, 67–8; Money, 32
28. Karsavina, 109
29. Buckle, Nijinsky, 25; Smakov, 5
30. DIP, 87; Money, 30–1
31. DIP, 87
32. Vospominaniia, 123
33. Chavchavadze, 216
34. Kyasht, 242
35. Information from Prince Nicholas Romanov
36. DIP, 171; Vospominaniia, 283; private information
37. King, ‘Glory…’; information from Prince Nicholas Romanov
38. Ferrand, Descendances Naturelles, 410; information from Irina Klyagin
39. GARF. Fond 616. Op. 1, D10
40. Vospominaniia, 122; Varenik, Dacha, 16; Makarenko, ‘Tantsy, Poklonniki i zhizn. Matildy Kshesinskoi’
41. Vospominaniia, 123
42. Karsavina, 109
43. Karsavina, ‘The First Russian Aurora’
44. Karsavina, 110; Drummond, 24
45. Karsavina, 96; DIP, 88
Chapter Seven
1. Teliakovsky’s Diary, 12 February 1903, quoted in Various, Costume Ball, II, 69–70
2. Wynn, ‘The Romanovs, the Ballet and a School in South-east England’
3. Moore, 79–80
4. Moore, 80
5. DIP, 93
6. Kurth, Isadora, 88; DIP, 94
7. DIP, 95
8. Vospominaniia, 130; DIP, 95
9. DIP, 95–6
10. Matilda Malya video; Chavchavadze, 216; Beal, 168
11. Vassili, 81–2; Radziwill, Intimate Life, vii–viii, 11
12. Earrant, 292, 309–13; Vassili, 115
13. Farrant, 295–6; Bobrov, ‘Zhemchuzhina’
14. Information from Irina Klyagin; Bourman, 75
15. Volkonsky vol. 2, 83–4
16. Krasovskaya, Nijinsky, 66; King and Wilson, 43
17. King and Wilson, 527; Volkonsky vol. 2, 104–5
18. Vospominaniia, 136
19. Radzinsky, 22–3
20. Krasovskaya, 62
21. King, ‘Glory…’
22. Nicholas II, Dnevnik, 129: 21 January 1904
23. Nijinska, 201–2; DIP, 98
24. Smakov, 83
25. Cockfield, 3
26. Vospominaniia, 135
27. King, ‘Glory…’
28. Money, 52
29. Duncan, 119–20
30. Perry and Pleshakov, 91
31. Hall, Little Mother, 205–6
32. Diary, quoted Salisbury, 129
33. Bobrov, ‘Dinastia…’
34. DIP, 101
35. Buckle, Nijinsky, 61
36. Bulycheva, ‘Dark-Eyed Demoness’
37. Krasovskaya, 375
38. DIP, 102
39. GARF. Fond 684. Op. 1, D25. L1–4. 7 December 1905. SM to MK
40. GARF. Fond 684. Op. 1, D25. L5–6. 12 December 1905. SM to MK
41. GARF. Fond 684. Op. 1, D25. L5–6. 12 December 1905. SM to MK
Chapter Eight
1. Bobrov and Kirikov, 7–8
2. Bobrov and Kirikov, 7–8
3. GARF. Fond 684. Op. 1, D25. L5–6, 12 December 1905. SM to MK; Bobrov and Kirikov, 8, 12, 71
4. Bobrov and Kirikov, 13; Nunes, ‘The Danish Princess’
5. Vospominaniia, 143
6. Chavchavadze, 242
7. King, ‘Glory…’
8. Bobrov and Kirikov, 22–30; Ves, St Petersburg, 1914; de Angelis
9. Kyasht, 239
10. Almedingen, 30
11. Daily Telegraph, 15 November 1911
12. Kyasht, 204; Kirov Ballet programme 2003; Chavchavadze, 242; Richardson and Humphreys, 184
13. Matilda Malya, video
14. DIP, 118
15. Kyasht, 92, 239
16. Kyasht, 244
17. Kyasht, 244; Matilda Malya, video; Money, 78
18. Bourman, 234
19. Danilova, 38; Capelotti, 72
20. Both quotes Smakov, 66
21. Roné, 62
22. Teliakovsky, ‘Memoirs’, in Dance Research, 28; Teliakovsky, 255–6
23. Teliakovsky, 242–3
24. Bezelianskii, 283
25. Buckle, Diaghilev, 82–3
26. DIP, 105
27. Krasovskaya, Nijinsky, 64
28. Money, 52; the box is in the Howard D Rothschild Collection at Harvard.
29. Nijinska, 241; Krasovskaya, Nijinsky, 67; Smakov 57
30. Krasovskaya, 57; Nijinska, 225–6; Money, 73
31. Benois, 249–51
32. Krasovskaya, Nijinsky, 71; Benois, 257; Krasovskaya, 57
33. Nijinska, 211, 220
34. 23 May 1908, quoted in Kodicek, 106
35. Martin, ‘Mlle Mathilde Kschessinska du Ballet Imperial de St Petersburg’
36. Quoted in Kodicek, 106; Krasovskaya, 59
37. Legat, 72; Teliakovsky, 256
38. Lifar, Diaghilev, 181
39. DIP, 111
40. Chuparron, ‘Liubovnitsa Poslednego…’; Vospominaniia, 156
41. Lifar, Diaghilev, 181–2
42. Teliakovsky, 110
43. de Angelis; 18 June 1930. Kschessinsky letters, NYPL; private information
44. La Vie Parisienne, 3 July 1909, quoted in Buckle, Diaghilev, 153–4
45. DIP, 113
46. Quoted in Garafola, 178
47. 20 April 1909, quoted in Kodicek, 106
48. Quoted in Garafola, 173
Chapter Nine
1. Quoted in Gray, 83
2. Ferrand, Noblesse Russe, 67
3. de Angelis
4. Karsavina, 109
5. Karsavina, 109
6. Gregory, Legat Saga, 80; Krasovskaya, 39–40; Bulycheva, ‘Dark-Eyed Demoness’
7. Danilova, 175
8. Krasovskaya, 54
9. Nijinska, 310
10. Nijinska, 310–11
11. Quoted in Buckle, Diaghilev, 197; Garafola, 178
12. DIP, 117; King, ‘Glory…’
13. DIP, 117–18
14. Bobrinsky Diary, 19 December 1910 in Krasni Arkhiv (1928), 142; Salisbury, 200; Maynard, ‘Kschessinska at 99’
15. DIP, 156
16. Krasovskaya, Nijinsky, 151
17. Nijinska, 322–4; Hall, Little Mother, 248
18. Information from John Wimbles
19. Nijinska, 319
; Krasovskaya, Nijinsky, 181; Lifar, Icare, 144
20. MacDonald, Diaghilev Observed, 132
21. Krasovskaya, Nijinsky, 155–6
22. Alexander Palace website: Diary, 13 February 1911
23. Karsavina, ‘The First Russian Aurora’
24. Chavchavadze, 250
25. Quoted in Money, 127, 154
26. Daily Sketch, 15.6.11; MacDonald, ‘Kschessinska with Diaghilev’
27. Nijinska, 381
28. Unattributed cuttings in the William Beaumont Morris scrapbooks, Theatre Museum
29. The Times, 14.6.11; Daily Sketch, 15.11.11
30. Dolgoruky, 153–5
31. DIP, 126
32. GARF. Fond 616. Op. 1, D10; Ferrand, Descendances Naturelles, 410
33. Bourman, 233
34. Private information; Bobrov, ‘Posledniya Doch…’
35. Information from Prof. Dr Eckhart G. Franz, Hessisches Staatsarchiv, Darmstadt; Buxhoeveden, 127–8
Chapter Ten
1. Lifar, Diaghilev, 182; Krasovskaya, Nijinsky, 159
2. Buckle, Diaghilev, 209, 404
3. Garafola, 192, 194
4. Vospominaniia, 189
5. The Standard, 9.11.11; MacDonald, ‘Kschessinska with Diaghilev’
6. Daily Telegraph, 15.11.11
7. Daily Mail, 9.11.11
8. Daily News, 10.11.11; MacDonald, Diaghilev Observed, 55, 57
9. The Times, 17 & 29.11.11; MacDonald, Diaghilev Observed, 58
10. Buckle, Diaghilev, 212
11. Daily News, 15.11.11
12. The Times, 20.11.11; The Lady, 30.11.11
13. Buckle, Diaghilev, 212
14. Tatler, 3.1.12
15. Quoted in Buckle, Nijinsky, 256
16. The Times, 1.12.11; The Lady, 7.12.11
17. Grigoriev, 59
18. Bourman, 250
19. DIP, 133
20. Daniels, ‘E.O. Hoppé and the Diaghilev Ballet’
21. Nijinska, 391, 395, 481–2
22. DIP 135; Vospominaniia, 197
23. Grigoriev, 65; Krasovskaya, Nijinsky, 198
24. Smakov, 62; Nijinska, 363
25. Kyasht, 221, 240; Bourman, 236–7
26. de Stoeckl, 115
27. Buchanan, Dissolution, 36; Radzinsky, 110
28. Crawford, 134, 143, 409
29. Engadine Express & Alpine Post, 2.12.13. Bibliotek St Moritz
30. Bibliotek St Moritz; Crawford, 152
31. Information from Eunice Biedryski-Bartell
32. The Imperial Russian Journal, vol. 1, no. 2, 46
Chapter Eleven
1. Matilda Malya, video; Bobrov and Kirikov, 79
2. GARF. Fond 616. Op. 1, D9. L1–8. Telegrams SM to MK. June & July 1914
3. Pares, 195; Massie, Nicholas and Alexandra, 274
4. Hall, Little Mother, 259
5. ‘The Late Mme Astafieva’, Dancing Times
6. Massie, Nicholas and Alexandra, 294
7. Smakov, 300–1; Danilova, 38
8. GARF. Fond 616. Op. 1, D5, L4
9. Quoted in Bobrov, ‘Zhemchuzhina’
10. Massie, Nicholas and Alexandra, 296
11. Massie, Nicholas and Alexandra, 273; Stone, 25
12. Alexander Palace website: diary, 12 May 1915; Salisbury, 268
13. 25 June 1915. A to N, Fuhrmann, 169
14. Radziwill, Nicholas II, 230
15. Stone, 153; Rodzianko, 130
16. Rodzianko, 130; King, ‘Glory…’
17. Cockfield, 21, 35
18. GARF. Fond 684. Op.1, D28. L4–505. 28 May 1915. MK to SM
19. GARF. Fond 684. Op. 1, D28. L10. 9 June 1915. MK to SM
20. GARF. Fond 684. Op. 1, D38. L6–605. 2 June 1915. MK to SM
21. GARF. Fond 616. Op. 1, D5, L281 & 74. MK to SM
22. Hall, Little Mother, 203
23. Bremser, 789
24. DIP, 156
25. Danilova, 37–8; Tugal, ‘Witness of a Glorious Past’
26. Fuhrmann, 358
27. Cockfield, 139; King, ‘Glory…’
28. Rodzianko, 194–5
29. DIP, 157
30. Krasovskaya, 65
31. Paleologue, vol. 2, 242
32. Sophie Dupré website
33. Paleologue, vol. 1, 310; Hall, Little Mother, 266
34. DIP, 159; Van der Kiste and Hall, Once a Grand Duchess, 77
35. Fuhrmann, 609. 27 September 1916
36. Fuhrmann, 677. 10 December 1916
37. Fuhrmann, 424 (26 March 1916) & 587 (17 September 1916)
38. Stone, 169; DIP, 158
39. Cockfield, 189
40. Paleologue, vol. 3, 157
41. Salisbury, 312
42. Rodzianko, 246
43. DIP, 161
44. Salisbury, 311; Paleologue, vol. 3, 170; DIP 161; Krasni Arkhiv (1928), Iz Dnevnika A V Romanova, 194
45. Paleologue vol. 3, 229–30; Bobrov and Kirikov, 89
46. Perry and Pleshakov, 165; King, ‘Glory…’
47. Anon, Fall of the Romanoffs, 114
48. DIP, 163
49. Massie, Nicholas and Alexandra, 379–80; DIP, 163
50. Bobrov and Kirikov, 97
51. Chuparron, ‘Liubovnitsa Poslednego…’
52. King, ‘Glory…’; Krasni Arkhiv (1932), 141. Iz perepiski S M i N M Romanovov, SM to NM, 9 March 1917
53. King, ‘Glory…’
54. DIP, 165
Chapter Twelve
1. Youriev, 561; Radzinsky, 31
2. Sophie Dupré website
3. Paleologue, vol. 3, 232; Van der Kiste, Victoria Melita, 125
4. Stopford, 121
5. Paleologue, vol. 3, 230
6. Bobrov and Kirikov, 97; DIP, 165
7. Figes and Kolonitskii, 12, 18
8. Krasovskaya, 65; Varenik, Dacha, 35
9. Bohanov, Romanovy, 227; Scholl
10. Krasni Arkhiv (1932), Iz Perepiski…, 144. SM to NM; Cockfield, 204
11. Alexander, Once a Grand Duke, 150
12. Krasni Arkhiv (1932), Iz Perepiski…, 141. SM to NM, 9 March 1917
13. Krasni Arkhiv (1932), Iz Perepiski…, 143 SM to NM, 9 March 1917
14. Stopford, 151
15. Krasni Arkhiv (1932), Iz Perepiski…, 144. SM to NM, 19 March 1917
16. Bobrov and Kirikov, 97–9
17. Chuparron, ‘Liubovnitsa Poslednego…’; DIP, 167
18. King, ‘Glory…’
19. Krasni Arkhiv (1932). Iz Perepiski…, 144. SM to NM, 17 March 1917
20. Brown, 98
21. Varenik, Dacha, 5, 40
22. DIP, 170
23. de Angelis
24. Krasni Arkhiv (1932), Iz Perepiski…, 144. SM to NM, Easter 1917
25. Cockfield, 203
26. Salisbury, 413
27. Trotsky, vol. 2, 68
28. Krasni Arkhiv (1932), Iz Perepiski…, 146. SM to NM. 16 April 1917
29. Krasni Arkhiv (1932), Iz Perepiski…, 144–5. SM to NM, Easter 1917
30. Krasni Arkhiv (1932), Iz Perepiski…, 147. SM to NM, 4 May 1917
31. Anon, Fall of the Romanoffs, 51
32. de Angelis
33. Trotsky, vol. 2, 67–9
34. Varenik, Dacha, 30; Bobrov and Kirikov, 104; Trotsky, vol. 2, 69
35. Scholl
36. Cockfield, 204
37. Krasni Arkhiv (1932), Iz Perepiski…, 146, SM to NM, 25 April 1917 & 149, SM to NM, 26 May 1917
38. Bobrov and Kirikov, 102
39. GARF. Fond 616. Op. 1, D10. Certificate dated 2 May 1917
40. King, ‘Glory…’; Vospominaniia, 267
41. DIP, 173; Varenik, Dacha, 5–6
42. Varenik, Dacha, 40
43. Vospominaniia, 270
Chapter Thirteen
1. Buchanan, Victorian Gallery, 60
2. Stopford, 162
3. Perry and Pleshakov, 173; Hall, Little Mother, 295
4. Sophie Dupré website
5. Information from John Wim
bles
6. DIP, 176; Vulf, ‘Personazhi Legenda’
7. DIP, 176
8. DIP, 184
9. King and Wilson, 186
10. DIP, 190
11. Vospominaniia, 301; Perry and Pleshakov, 229; Youssoupov, 277
12. Information from John Wimbles
13. DIP, 195
14. Smakov, 63
15. Capelotti, 70–1
16. Vorres, 167
17. DIP, 200
18. DIP, 200
Chapter Fourteen
1. Nabokov, Speak, Memory, (Gollancz, 1951) p. 204. Qtd in Perry and Pleshakov, 239
2. Grand Duke Dimitri’s diary, Harvard. 21 June/3 July, 24 June/4 July, 25 June/5 July & 13/26 October 1920
3. DIP, 207
4. Hall, Little Mother, 337
5. DIP, 208
6. Grand Duke Dimitri’s diary, Harvard. 16/29 & 17/30 October, 21 December 1920/3 January 1921; 6/19, 7/20 & 15/28 January 1921
7. DIP, 208
8. DIP, 209
9. DIP, 209
10. Perry and Pleshakov, 265; information from Prince Nicholas Romanov
11. Grand Duke Dimitri’s diary, Harvard. 15/28 February 1921
12. DIP, 210; Vospominaniia, 326
13. Fonteyn, 39
14. Karsavina, 202
15. Perry and Pleshakov, 341
16. Grand Duke Dimitri’s diary, Harvard. 16/29 October 1920; Van der Kiste, Victoria Melita, 153–4
17. Radziwill, Those I Remember, 144
18. New York Times, 2.6.28; Nadelhoffer, 118 & note 18, chapter 7
19. Ferrand, Noblesse Russe, 422; Ponfilly, 398; Interview with Mme Marina von Isenberg
20. Dolin, 120
21. Hall, Little Mother, 342; Kurth, Anastasia, 114
22. Kurth, Anastasia, 146
23. Kurth, Anastasia, 152; Anon, I, Anastasia, 203
24. Lifar, Diaghilev, 437–8
25. Grand Duke Dimitri’s diary, Harvard. 13/26 October 1920; 28 December 1920/10 January 1921 & 29 December 1920/11 January 1921
26. Dymin, 158–9
27. Radzinsky, 76
28. DIP, 217; Bobrov, ‘Posledniya Doch…’
29. Radzinsky, 76; Varenik, Dacha, 40
30. DIP, 217
31. 15 July 1927. Kschessinsky Letters, NYPL
32. Vospominaniia, 339
33. Kurth, Anastasia, 147, 162, 203
34. Kurth, Anastasia, 205
35. Saint-Pierre, 594
36. Kurth, Anastasia, 369–70, 205–6
37. New York Times, 2.6.28
38. Kurth, Anastasia, 277, 231, 337
39. DIP, 221
40. Perry and Pleshaskov, 265
41. Elin, ‘Neukrotimaia Matilda’; Vulf, ‘Personazhi Legenda’