Napoleonic period embraced by, 234
and Revolution, 124, 201–5, 209–11, 215, 229, 266
and Stenka Razin, 212
and Workers’ Party, 215
Bolshoi Babylon (HBO), xvi, xix
Bolshoi Ballet:
archives of, xxiv, xxvi, xxviii, 196
character dances in, 351
coaching system in, 404–5
conflicts within, xviii, xxii–xxiii, 135–38, 228, 229
and cultural exchange, 252, 339, 340
dancer loyalty to, 350, 416
dancers dismissed in, 136–38, 225–26, 232
dancer strike in, 405, 406
evolution of, 198, 261
finances, 135–37, 139–40, 142–43, 153, 174–75, 193
history parallel to national history, xii, xv, 267, 329, 405, 406, 415
ideological content forced upon, xviii, 208–9, 227, 228–29, 232–33, 253, 260, 263–65, 319–20, 323, 329, 379, 384
as imperial institution, xxvii, 164, 240
increasing importance of, 198–99, 422–23
inertia of, 380, 383–86, 405
physical culture in, xxvii, 214, 351
privatization attempt, 139
reviews of, 125, 196–97
“Stars of the Bolshoi Ballet,” 374–75
as state enterprise, 139–40, 214, 216, 226–27, 261, 299, 329
style of, 196, 330, 415, 416, 422
survival of, 138–40, 198, 208, 225–26, 242, 329, 416
as symbol, xiii, xxv, xxvi–xxvii, xxix, 80, 340
on tour, 338–50, 358, 399, 404–5, 409
and World War II, 309–14, 317–18, 332
Bolshoi Ballet Academy, xv, 44, 140, 214, 332
Bolshoi Petrovsky Theater: era of, 69, 81
see also Bolshoi Theater
Bolshoi Theater:
acoustics, 122–23
administration, 74–75, 77–78, 209, 215
bicentennial, 403
Board of Trustees, 469
censorship board, 262
centennial, 243
Communist Party meetings in, xiv, 121, 258–59, 363–64
construction of, 62–64, 123
curtain, 126, 253
deterioration, 75, 78, 350
finances, 146–47, 165, 220, 221, 222, 224
fire in, 115–17
foundations of, 123, 350
gala performance in (1856), 127–29
gas lighting in, xxvii, 75, 144–47
general directors of, 468–69
government control of, 221–23, 225, 229, 253, 260–61, 268–70
government support of, 189
incident reports in, xxvii, 158–60, 210
interior design of, 64–66, 122, 125–26, 127, 130
Kremlin as second stage for, 363–64
lotteries, 221, 224
and national pride, 42, 65–66, 69, 80, 126, 131–32, 224
opening of, 67, 68, 123–26
operas performed in, 69–70, 233
orchestra, 78, 220, 231
and Petrovsky, 14, 31, 41–42, 62, 64
as political convention center, 223, 230, 258
politics of, 1, 121, 205, 207, 209–14, 258–60, 264–65, 269, 292
professional unions in, xxi, 216–18, 228, 231, 267–68
rebuilding, xiii, xxvii, 117, 119–20, 121–26, 144
records of, xxviii, 212–13
repertoire, 67–68, 243, 265, 269, 292, 359, 374, 384–85
restoration, xv, xxv, 191, 403–4, 407, 411–15, 419, 422–23
and revolution, 204–11, 215, 269, 329
Soviet imprint on, 199, 206–11, 268–76
survival of, 213–15, 222–24, 230, 269
television broadcasts of, 399, 405
vaudeville and, xxvi, 261
and World War II, 312–14
Bolshoi Theater Museum, 256–57
Bolt, The, 273–75
Boris Godunov, xxv, 232, 260, 312
Borkh, Count Alexander, 443
Bosio, Angiolina, 124–25
Bournonville, August, 158, 160
Bové, Osip (Joseph), 63, 64, 67, 75
Brezhnev, Leonid, xxv, xxvi, 261, 287, 340, 349, 363–64, 380, 389, 399
Brianza, Carlotta, 240
Bright Stream, The, 275–80, 281, 284–87, 289, 300, 312, 391, 418–19
Brothers Grimm, 166
Brown, Ismene, xxi–xxii, xxviii–xxix
Bryusov, Valeriy, 229–30, 232
Bulgakov, Mikhaíl, The Master and Margarita, 391, 410
Bulgakov, Pyotr, 108–9
Burlaki, Yuriy, 469
Callas, Maria, xvii
Calzolari, Enrico, 124
Cardin, Pierre, 349
Carmen Suite, 370–75, 384, 385, 390, 397, 402
Caruthers, Osgood, 327
Castro, Fidel, 121, 371
Catherine the Great, xiii, 1, 11, 18, 20, 31, 33, 232, 328
ascension to throne, 8–9
and bubonic plague, 7–8
death of, 5, 39
and Imperial Foundling Home, 13, 27, 29, 44
reign of, 39
Cavos, Alberto, xiii, xxvii, 121–26, 144, 199, 211
Cavos, Catterino, 51
Censorship Committee, 74, 98, 207
Cerrito, Fanny, 125
Cervantes, Miguel de, Don Quixote, 67, 153, 154, 157
Chabukiani, Vakhtang, 290, 317–18, 338
Chaliapin, Feodor, 204
Charles the Bold, 98–99
Chasov, Stanislav, 399
Chayanov, Alexander, 2, 3
Cheka (police), 203, 217–19, 222, 259
Chekhov, Anton, 138, 195, 399–401
Cherkassky, Prince Boris, 110–11, 116
Chernenko, Konstantin, 349
Chernïshov, Zakhar, 28
Chernobyl nuclear disaster (1986), 404
Chernyakov, Dmitri, 412, 413–14
Chervonenko, Stepan, 395
Chopin, Frédéric, 241
Chopiniana, 337
Chornokhova, Nina, 310
Chulaki, Mikhaíl, 325–26, 354, 364, 365, 373–74, 388, 392, 400, 468
Churchill, Winston, 415
Cinderella, 68–69, 164, 184, 300, 314–21, 346
Clustine, Ivan, 194, 195
Cold War, 339–40, 348–49, 361–62, 370, 371, 405
Comintern, 210, 248
Committee on Arts Affairs, 261, 268, 284, 292, 297, 299, 306, 311, 319, 337
Communist International, 259
Communist League Movement, 266
Communist Movement of Youth, 271, 337
Communist Party, 223–24, 260, 268, 273, 278, 287, 344, 386–87, 405
Central Committee, 224, 284, 285, 288, 293, 299, 321, 326, 328, 341, 346, 383, 385–86, 395
Coppélia, 187, 216, 331
Corey, Herbert, 241
Cossacks, 61, 131, 132, 216, 277
Coxe, William, 27
Cranko, John, xxii Crimean War, 120, 146
Crimson Sails, 310
Croce, Arlene, 168–69, 353, 396, 416
Crompton, Sarah, 420
Daily Worker, 280
Dante Aligheri, Inferno, 56–57
Daschkoff, Countess Anna, 445
Daughter of the Port, The, 243–44, 245
Degas, Edgar, 95
Delaval, Félix, 22
Deldevez, Édouard, 108
Delibes, Léo, 447
Delights of Hashish, The, or The Island of Roses, 134, 237
Demichev, Pyotr, 390, 400
DeMille, Cecil B., 362
Derzhavin, Konstantin, 305
De Salias-Turnemir, Yevgeniy, 443, 445
Dessay, Natalie, 412
Diaghilev, Sergey, 264, 297
Didelot, Charles-Louis, 48–50, 54, 55, 59, 60, 83
Digonskaya, Olga, 267
Dikiy, Alexei, 246
Dinamiada (Golden Age), 271–73
Dinamov, Sergey, 292, 293
Dmitrichen
ko, Pavel, xx–xxii, xxiii, 408
Dmitriyev, Nikolay, 92–95
Dolgorukov, Vladimir, 172
Dolinskaya, Yevgeniya, 332
Donizetti, Gaetano, L’elisir d’amore, 124, 127
Don Quixote, xvi, 149, 151–58, 159, 162, 171, 185, 337, 341, 372
Cervantes novel, 67, 153, 154, 157
music for, 151, 152–53
new versions of, 196–97, 406
and Petipa, 140, 151–55, 156–58, 174, 196–97, 449
premiere of, xxvii, 155
staging of, xxviii, 154–55, 156–58, 196, 206
Doroshevich, Vlas, 241
Dostoevsky, Fyodor, 63, 112
The House of the Dead, 207
Drigo, Riccardo, 184, 198
Dudkevich, Georgiy, 354
Duncan, Isadora, 240, 241, 397
Duport, Louis, 47
Duse, Eleonora, 237
Dying Swan, The, 333–34, 337
Einstein, Albert, 241
Ein Tag aus dem Leben eines alten Souffleurs, 104
Eisenstein, Sergey, 392, 393
Elssler, Fanny, xxvii, 82, 84, 88, 98, 105
Emi Xiao, 252
Engels, Friedrich, 356
Enlightenment, 24, 25, 43–44, 66
Enukidze, Avel, 255, 355
Equestrian Circus Theater, St. Petersburg, 122
Ertuğrul, Muhsin, 354
Eshlay, Andrey, 403
Esmeralda, 187, 233
Eugene Onegin, 206
Ever-Fresh Flowers (children’s ballet-pantomime), 222, 250, 253
Ezrahi, Christina, 269, 361
Fabergé, 138, 444
Fadeyechev, Alexei, 469
Fadeyechev, Nikolay, 337, 374
False Dmitri, The, 12
Farrell, Suzanne, 397
Faust, 2, 67, 147, 159
Fayer, Yuriy, 291, 319
Federal Security Service, 421
Fedorova, Sophie, 216
Feifer, George, 333–34, 349, 402
Fenella, 85
Fern, The, 174
Filin, Sergey, xi, xvi–xvii, xix, xx–xxi, xxiii, xxviii, 408, 415, 419
Firebird, The, 232, 233
Flame of Love, The, or the Salamander, 145
Flames of Paris, The, 290, 299, 314, 355, 419–20
Fleming, Seymour, 26
Fokine, Michel, 199, 208, 232, 240, 333
Fonteyn, Margot, 342
Foregger, Nikolay, 208
Fountain of Bakhchisarai, The, 262, 290–91, 298, 341, 346, 355
Fountain of Good and Bad Fortune, The, 20, 21
Franz Ferdinand, Archduke, 193
French public theater, Moscow, 41
French Revolution, 33, 202, 234, 290, 419
Furtseva, Ekaterina, 343, 351, 372–74, 377–78, 387–90
Fyodorov, Alexander, 159
Fyodorov, Vasiliy, 81, 83
Fyodorovsky, Fyodor, 222, 253–55
Gabovich, Mikhaíl, 268, 311
Gagarina, Princess, 73
Galatea, 93
Galkin, Vladimir, 213–14
Galperin, Mikhaíl, 245
Gardel, Pierre, 234
Gayané, 306, 341
Gayevsky, Vadim, 367, 369
Gedeonov, Alexander, 75–78, 90, 101–2, 104, 105–6, 122
Gedeonov, Stepan, 443
Geltser, Ekaterina, 167, 193, 233–43
art collection of, 235, 242, 257, 349
awards and honors to, 235, 236, 242
ballets adapted by, 235, 238–39, 246
career of, 235, 241, 255–56, 257
injuries, 240
marriage, 236–38
and New Soviet Woman, 233–34, 242, 243
popularity of, 242–43
retirement, 256–57
roles danced by, 173, 238–40, 241, 248, 251, 252, 256
training of, 235, 237–38
Geltser, Vasiliy, 235
Gerber, Yuliy, 155–56, 164, 174, 177
Gerdt, Elizaveta, 332
Gerdt, Pavel, 184
Germanovich, Semyon, 135–36
Germany, 124, 164
and Molotov–Ribbentrop Non-Aggression Pact, 306, 307
and World War II, 307–12, 313, 318
Gessen-Gomburgskaya, Princess Marianna, 23
Geyten, Lidiya, 134, 139, 173–74, 175, 193
Gillert, Stanislav, 172
Giovagnoli, Raffaello, 356
Giselle, 92, 106, 168, 341, 351, 384, 408
Giuri, Adelina, 193, 194
Glaviskusstvo, 458
Glavrepertkom, 232–33, 236, 252, 262, 269, 313, 316, 323, 354
Glazunov, Alexander, 174, 212
Glière, Reinhold, 244, 245, 246–47, 272, 301
Glinka, Mikhaíl, 69–70, 78, 412
A Life for the Tsar, 70, 72, 124, 131, 190, 204, 413
Ruslan and Lyudmila, 70, 413, 414
Glushkovskaya, Tatyana, 61
Glushkovsky, Adam, 54–58, 60–62, 68, 69, 98, 143, 234
Goat-legged, The, 219
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von:
Faust, 2, 67
The Sorrows of Young Werther, 92
Gogel, Georg, 26
Gogol, Nikolay, 207
Dead Souls, 416
Golden Age, The, xxiii, 271–73, 380, 394, 398–99, 403, 408
Golden Fish, The, 238
Goldwyn Follies, The, 357
Goleyzovsky, Kasyan, 226–27, 354–55
Golitsïn, Dmitri, 63, 69, 73, 75
Golovanov, Nikolay, 292
Golovin, Alexander, 196
Gorbachev, Mikhaíl, 349, 404, 405, 406
Gordeyev, Vyacheslav, 334, 469, 470
Gorodetsky, Sergey, 251
Gorsky, Alexander, 194–99, 407
as ballet master, 143, 207–8, 216–17, 261
as choreographer, 195–99, 206, 212, 216, 227, 238–39, 241, 250, 253, 257, 386
death of, 199
and Ever-Fresh Flowers, 222, 250, 253
photography used by, 199
and shifting politics, 222–23, 226
and Swan Lake, 197–98, 239, 376, 377
Gosselin, Geneviève, 82
Gounod, Charles, Faust, 47, 147
Great Terror, 219, 270, 293
Great War (World War I), 190, 200, 201, 202, 203
Gretchaninoff, Alexander, 207
Grianti, Count Carlo Brentano de, 11
Grigorovich, Yuriy:
as ballet master, 353, 386–87, 390–99, 403, 406–7, 408–9, 418, 469
as choreographer, xxiii, 326–28, 329, 333, 350–54, 365–70, 375–80, 381, 397–98, 403, 405, 408
and Legend of Love, 351–53, 379, 380, 384, 408
opponents, 385–87, 390–91, 396, 397–98
and Plisetskaya, 333, 367, 375, 379, 380, 390, 391, 395, 400, 401, 402, 409
and politics, 307, 380, 386–87, 388, 390, 391, 393, 399, 406
and Spartacus, 353–54, 358, 363, 365–70, 380, 384, 408
and Stone Flower, 326–28, 351, 379, 380
and Swan Lake, 375–79, 387
today, 407, 409–10
Groti, Melchiore, 10
Guerinot, Théodore, 97–104, 105
Gusev, Pyotr, 280, 310, 359–60
Gusman, Boris, 264, 265
Hammer and Sickle, 124
Hansen, Joseph Peter, 170
Happiness, 303–6
Harlequin Sorcerer, 20
Harss, Marina, 367
Hatchett, Charles, 15–16
Heerzen, Alexander, 88
Hemingway, Valerie, 302
Herzen, Alexander, 130
Hikmet, Nâzim, 352
Hilverding, Franz, 20
Hitler, Adolf, 235, 307–8, 313, 356
Hoffmann, E.T.A., 375
Homans, Jennifer, xxviii, 298, 417
Hughes, Allen, 361–62
Hugo, Victor, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, 187, 216
Hullen, Félicité, 68–69, 73, 84, 85, 88, 92, 114, 143
Hungarian Hut, The, 83
Hurok, Sol, 340
Iksanov, Anatoliy, xvi, xvii, xix, xxii, 469
Imperial Academy of the Arts, 23, 63
Imperial Arbat Theater, 46–47, 54, 76
Imperial Ballet of St. Petersburg (Mariyinsky), 139, 142, 196, 240
Iolanta, 148, 206
I Puritani, 123–25
Istomina, Evdokya (Avdotya), 435
Ivanov, Georgiy, 468
Ivanov, Lev, 137, 180, 182, 184, 186, 197, 198, 376, 377, 386, 403
Ivanovsky, Alexander, 398
Ivan Susanin (A Life for the Tsar), 256
Ivan the Terrible, 392–94, 397, 403, 408
(also Age of Fire), 380
Ivan the Terrible, Tsar, 70, 212, 393, 408
Ivanov, Georgiy, 400
Janin, Jules, 105
Johansson, Christian, 237
Joseph the Beautiful, 227, 354–55
Jurowski, Vladimir, 413, 414
Kaczynski, Lech, 413
Kaligraf, Ivan, 12, 13, 22
Kaligraf, Nadezhda, 17
Karalli, Vera, 239
Karpakova, Pelageya, 170–73, 174–75, 177, 179, 182, 198
Karpakova, Tatyana, 88–89, 163
Kasatkina, Natalya, 381
Kashchey the Deathless, 164, 206
Kavelin, Pavel, 149, 443
Kavelina, Yevgeniya, 149–50
Kennedy, Jacqueline Bouvier, 348
Kennedy, John F., 348
Kerzhentsev, Platon, 279, 284, 285, 292, 295–96, 297
KGB, 338, 339, 343, 345–47, 388, 405
Khachaturian, Aram, 261, 262, 301–7, 320, 321, 370
awards to, 365
Gayané, 306
Happiness, 303–6
Saber Dance,” 303, 306
Spartacus, 301, 307, 353, 356, 357, 360–61, 362, 364–66
Khrennikov, Tikhon, xv, 270
Khrushchev, Nikita, 253, 261, 287, 387–88
and ballet, xxvi, xxviii, 318, 326, 338, 341, 343–44, 349, 350
and Stalin denunciation, 339
and “the Thaw,” 325, 326
Kirov, Sergey, 261
Kirov Theater, 261, 262, 358, 360, 386
early years of, see Mariyinsky Theater
Kisselgoff, Anna, 405
Kister, Baron Karl, 443
Kokonin, Vladimir, 406, 468–69
Kolosova, Yevgeniya, 49
Komsomol, 271, 327
Kondratyeva, Marina, 386, 404
Koreleva, Agnessa, 254–55
Korovin, Konstantin, 196
Kosïgin, Alexei, 374
Kremlin, 80, 126, 225, 252, 279, 363, 404, 421
Kremlin Armory, artifacts in, 6
Kreyn, Alexander, 338
Kriger, Viktorina, 383–84
Krupskaya, Nadezhda, 223
Kshesinskaya, Matilda, 182, 185–89, 190–91, 195, 198
Kubrick, Stanley, 303
Kukharsky, Vasiliy, 387
Kurilko, Mikhaíl, 244–45, 247, 250, 254, 255
Kutuzov, Mikhaíl, 52, 53
Kuznetsov, Anatoliy, 342–43
Kuznetsov, Dmitri, 113, 114
Kuznetsov, Vladimir, 216–19, 454
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