Kuznetsova, Tatyana, 353
Chronicles of the Bolshoi Ballet, 409–10
La bayadère, 142, 173, 206, 233
Lablache, Frederick, 124
Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District, The, 280–83, 284, 287
Lady with the Lapdog, 400–401, 402
La fille du Danube, 98
La fille mal gardée, 206
Lakmé, 209
Lamaral, Jean, 54
La Marseillaise,” 207, 209, 251, 254
La muette de Portici, 85
Lamzdorf, Count Vladimir, 192
La servante justifiée, 86
Lashchilin, Lev, 244, 246, 250, 270
La sylphide, xxvii, 86, 92–95, 98, 101, 104, 109, 167
Laurencia, 338, 372
La vivandière, 125
Lavrovsky, Leonid:
as ballet master, 347
as choreographer, 297, 325–26
and Cinderella, 321
and drambalet, 297, 300, 318, 325, 350, 377
and Romeo and Juliet, 297, 298, 299, 326, 359
and Stone Flower, 322–23, 324–25, 326–27, 347
Lawson, Valerie, 418–19
Lebedeva, Praskovya, 91
L’ école enchantée (The Magic School), 18, 19
Le corsair, xxvii, 83, 98, 140, 143–44, 149–51, 183, 185, 187, 206, 240
Le diable à quatre, 88
Le diable boiteux, 98
Legend of Love, 351–53, 379, 380, 384, 408
Legnani, Pierina, 182, 184–85, 186, 187, 191, 198, 238
Lenin, Vladimir, 201–7, 215, 216, 259, 264, 284
and the arts, xiv, 213–14, 222, 224, 261, 269–70, 271, 356
illness and death of, 223–24, 230, 231, 236
memorial concert for, 231
New Economic Policy (NEP) of, 220–21, 264
Leningrad:
and World War II, 308, 318
see also St. Petersburg Lensky, Dmitri, 442
Leoncavallo, Ruggero, Pagliacci, 148
Le pas d’acier, 263–65, 288
Lepeshinskaya, Olga, 268–69, 309–11, 319, 339, 341, 344, 365
Lermontov, Mikhaíl, 93, 207
Panorama Moskvï,” 66–67, 471
Leskov, Nikolay, 280
Les orientales, 241
Lesser, Wendy, 418
Lesta, or the Dnepr Water Nymph, 40–41
Le tour du monde, 170
Liberated Russia, 207
Liepa, Māris, 347, 362, 363, 368, 377
Life for the Tsar, A, 70, 72, 124, 131, 190, 204, 230, 256, 413
Lipatov, Audrey, xx, xxiii Liszt, Franz, 78
Little Humpbacked Horse, The, 216
Livre, Emma, 94
Locke, John, 24
Lockhart, Bruce, 202, 205–6
London Illustrated News, 115–16 “Long Live Free Russia!,” 207
Lopukhov, Fyodor, 274–76, 304, 350, 377, 420
The Bright Stream, 275–76, 278, 280, 284–85, 391, 418
Dance Symphony: The Magnificence of the Universe, 274
Louis XIV, 61–62, 194
Love for Love, xv
Love for the Fatherland, 50–51
Love for Three Oranges, The, 247–48
Love Poem, 313
Lunacharsky, Anatoliy, 229, 242
and Bolshoi, 210–11, 215, 220, 223, 224, 231
and Malinovskaya, 215–17, 221, 231–32
as People’s Commissar for Enlightenment, 210–11, 213, 216–18, 221, 222–23
and Prokofiev, 247–48, 263, 288
retirement, 267
Lushin, Stanislav, 48
Lutskaya, Elena, 377
Luzhkov, Yuriy, 411
Lvov, Leonid, 120, 442
Lyadov, Alexander, 113, 293
Macartney, George, 4
Macaulay, Alastair, 170, 401, 412
Maddox, Michael, 1–23, 27–42, 139
bankruptcy of, 3, 33, 38, 39–40
and competition, 17, 27
death of, 41, 42
debts of, 7, 13–14, 15, 31–32, 36–38, 40
early years in England, 2–3, 4, 60
first visit to Russia, 4–5
hostility toward, 36–37, 39
income of, 32–33, 42
and orphanage, see Moscow Imperial Foundling Home
program choices of, 2, 11, 33, 35, 66
theater of, 7, 9–11, 13–17, 26, 27, 46, 59, 64, 81; see also Petrovsky Theater
Makarova, Natalya, xxvi, 318, 402
Maksimova, Ekaterina, 394, 403, 405
Maksimova, Elena, xxiii, 368, 371
Malavergne, Pierre-Frédéric, 108
Malinovskaya, Elena, xviii, 215–18, 220–21, 224–29, 231–32, 267, 277
Malïy Theater, 74–75, 78, 79, 83, 91, 107, 144, 148, 293, 332
Malïy Theater Museum, 81
Mamontov, Savva, 195, 196
Mannerheim, Carl Gustaf, 236, 256
Manokhina, Mariya, 113–14
Mao Zedong, 252, 253
March of Freedom, The, 241
Maret, Hugues-Bernard, 58
Marie of Hesse, Princess, 101
Marin, Vasiliy, 116
Mariya, empress consort, 39, 40, 41, 122
Mariyinsky Ballet, 139, 142, 196, 240
Mariyinsky Theater, xii, 122, 137, 140, 147, 262, 415
and Petipa, 141–43, 151, 156, 195, 234
and Prokofiev, 288, 289, 297
as second stage, 189, 225, 234
see also Kirov Theater Martin, John, 338
Marx, Karl, 356
Marxist-Leninism, xviii, 214, 251, 281, 311, 323, 408, 415
Maslov, Nikolay, 39
Massine, Léonide, 193, 263
Maykov, Apollon, 443
Mazilier, Joseph, 88, 113, 143
Medinsky, Vladimir, xix Medvedev, Dmitri, xxv, 407, 411, 412
Melikov, Arif, 352–53
Melik-Pashayev, Alexander, 282, 283
Mendelson, Mira, 322
Méndez, José, 193, 237
Messerer, Asaf, 250, 265, 270, 271, 336, 343
Messerer, Rakhil, 330, 332, 335–36
Messerer, Sulamith, 269, 280, 336
Metropolitan Opera, New York, 345
Meyerbeer, Giacomo, Robert le diable, 47, 94
Meyerhold, Vsevolod, 265, 294
Mikhaílov, Andrey, 63, 64, 67
Mikhaílov, Nikolay, 328
Mikhaílovsky Theater, 275
Mikhalchenko, Alla, 398
Mikoyan, Anastas, 302, 303
Milioti, Konstantin, 172–73
Miller Who Was Also a Magician, a Swindler, and a Matchmaker, 11–12, 18, 22
Minin, Kuzma, 126
Minkus, Ludwig, 108, 132, 152–53, 155, 156, 157, 162, 175, 198, 307, 323
Miraculous Mandarin, The, 325–26
Miss Sara Sampson, 17
Mlada, 237, 360
Moiseyev, Igor, 270, 357, 358, 364, 366
Moiseyev folk ensemble, 409
Molchanov, Kirill, 468
Molotov, Vyacheslav, 306, 307–8
Molotov–Ribbentrop Non-Aggression Pact, 306, 307
Montessu, Frederic, 108
Montreal, Expo 67 in, 372–73
Mordkin, Mikhaíl, 193, 239
Morelli, Cosmo, 21
Morelli, Francesco, 20–21
Mortier, Édouard, 58
Moscow:
ascendancy of, xii, 80, 225
ballet developed in, 62, 68
Bolsheviks in, 203
Bolshoi in, see Bolshoi Ballet;
Bolshoi Theater
burning of, 53–54, 56–57, 80, 422
capital moved to, 189, 203, 299
evacuation of, 52–55
gas wars in, xxvii, 75, 144–47
Memorial Society of, 295
Napoleonic War in, 52–58, 80, 422
rebuilding of, 60, 63, 65–66, 80, 132, 422
rustic character of, 132–33
and World War II, 308–14
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Moscow Imperial Foundling Home (Imperatorskiy Vospitatel’nïy dom), 7, 9, 13, 19, 23–31
curriculum of, 43, 44–45
death rates in, 24, 44
finances, 23, 26, 30, 31, 35, 38
founding of, 23
and Imperial Theater College, 44–46
Opekunskiy sovet (governing board), 13, 15, 23, 29–30, 31, 32, 35, 40, 76
purpose of, 24, 336
talent enlisted from, xxvi, 10, 19, 30, 32, 35
theater of, 27–29
Moscow Imperial Theater College:
and Bolshoi Ballet Academy, 44, 214, 332
bureaucratic control of, 76–78
curriculum of, 44, 45, 78–79, 214, 332
deterioration in, 75–76
in exile, 55
finances, 214
opening of, 44–46
teachers in, 45–46, 54, 78–79
Moscow Imperial Theaters:
administrative restructuring of, 74–75, 79–80
bureaucracy of, 72, 73–75, 119, 208, 211
directorships of, 442–43
finances, 175
and former Petrovsky Theater, see Petrovsky Theater
government operation of, xxvii, 32, 41, 43, 49, 77, 119, 211, 260
incident reports in, 157–60
rebuilding, 46, 144
records of, 81, 212–13
technical oversight of, 148–51
ticket scalping at, 118, 144, 158
Moskovskiye vedomosti (Moscow gazette), 6, 12, 23, 28, 39, 65–66, 86, 97
Mossovet, 309
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, The Magic Flute, 22
Mühdorfer, Wilhelm, 164
Mukhamedov, Irek, 393, 398
Mukhin, Dmitri, 171
Muromtsev, Yuriy, 468
Musäus, Johann, 166
Mussorgsky, Modest, 207
Boris Godunov, 232
Mutnïkh, Vladimir Ivanovich, 277, 279, 285, 288, 289, 292–93, 355–56
Napoleon Bonaparte, 234
abdication of, 58–59
invasion of Russia (1812), xxvi, 47, 50, 51–58, 124, 234, 308
Napoleonic Wars, 47, 308
Battle of Borodino, 50, 52
Great Retreat, 58–59, 69
in Moscow, 52–58, 80, 422
public entertainment during, 54–55, 57
Russian victory in, 59
Nasser al-Din, shah of Persia, 150
Natarova, Anna, 86
Native Fields, 269
Nekhlyudov, Vasiliy, 442
New Soviet Man/Woman, 233, 263, 370
New Stage, 404, 407
New York City Ballet, 345, 370
New York Times, 254, 327, 361, 383, 405
Nicholas I, Tsar, 67, 86–87, 96, 120, 421
Nicholas II, Tsar, 130, 182, 187, 189–92, 195, 200, 201, 203–4, 206, 227
Night and Day, 131–32
Nijinskaya, Bronislava, 396
Nikitin, Alexander, 122
Nikitin, Irakliya, 103, 105
NKVD (secret police), 259, 265, 268, 293–94, 302, 309, 338
Noverre, Jean-Georges, 18, 21–22, 61
Nureyev, Rudolf, 318, 347, 402
Nutcracker, The, xvii, 169, 174, 182, 227, 250, 314, 337, 372, 407, 420
Ogloblin, Nikolay, 160
Okhlopkov, Nikolay, 320
Onegin, xxii
opera:
government oversight of, 43, 232
popular French and Italian, 160
reviews of, 127–29
Russianness of, 69–70
see also specific operas
Orango, 266–67, 462–63
Oransky, Viktor, 271
Orlov, Alexei, 8, 9
Orvid, Georgiy, 468
Osipova, Natalia, 420
Ostretsov, Alexander, 292
Ostrovsky, Alexander, 135
Ottonovich, Nilender, 355
Ovanesyan, Gevork, 302
Ovid, 166
Pagliacci, 148
Pakhomov, Vasiliy, 468
Panin, Nikita, 4
Paquita, 107–8, 351
Paradis, Leopold, 18–19, 20, 32
Paris, nineteenth-century ballet in, 234
Parisian Market, The, 153
Paul I, Tsar, 39, 43, 48
Pavlova, Anna, 238, 241, 419
Pavlova, Nadezhda, 334
Pchelnikov, Pavel, 138–39, 192–94, 443
Pearl, The, 190–91
Pelt, Nikolay, 442
Perrault, Charles, 320
Perrot, Jules, 141, 143
Peter I (the Great), emperor, 70
Peter III, emperor, 8–9
Petipa, Jean-Antoine, 113
Petipa, Lucien, 141
Petipa, Marius, xxvi, 90, 109, 137, 140–44, 407
and Bolshoi Ballet, 143–44, 151
as choreographer, 108, 113, 131–32, 142, 151, 154, 172, 174, 187, 190, 386
death of, 199
and Don Quixote, 140, 151–55, 156–58, 174, 196–97, 449
and Geltser, 237, 238
and Gorsky, 195–97
influence of, xxvi, 140, 142, 245, 351, 440
and La bayadère, 142, 173, 206
and Mariyinsky, 141–43, 151, 156, 195, 234
memoirs, 200
records of, 212–13
and St. Petersburg Imperial Ballet, 182, 188, 235
and Sleeping Beauty, 181, 195
standard formula of, 196, 234, 257
and Swan Lake, 140, 175, 179, 180–87, 197, 198, 376, 377
and Tchaikovsky, 169, 175, 182
Petipa, Nadezhda, 213
Petrovsky Park, summer theater in, 76
Petrovsky Theater, 1–2
and Bolshoi, 14, 31, 41–42, 62, 64
closing of, 40–41
construction of, 10–11, 13–14
costs of, 17, 22, 31–32, 38
design of, 14–15, 34
fire in, 40–42, 43, 46
government operation of, 32–35, 43; see also Moscow Imperial Theaters
masquerades, 16, 22, 36, 227
opening of, 17–19
and orphanage, 29–31
performances in, 19–22, 30–31
renovations to, 35
stagnation of, 32–33, 36
Petrushka, 232–33
Peysar, Laura, 97
Pharaoh’s Daughter, The, 155, 172
Pïlyayev, Mikhaíl, 107
Pinucci, Pietro and Columba, 21
Piotrovsky, Adrian, 278, 280, 289, 290, 291, 293, 294
Plavilshchikov, Pyotr, 39
Pleshakov, Constantine, 307
Plisetskaya, Maya, 330–50, 388, 411, 416
awards and honors to, 337, 338, 370, 402
career of, xxiv–xxv, 280, 332–33, 337–39, 402
and Central Committee, 395–96, 397
and choreography, 381–85, 390
creative initiatives of, 399–401
death of, xxviii, 410
family background of, 330–31, 335–36
and Grigorovich, 333, 367, 375, 379, 380, 390, 391, 395, 400, 401, 402, 409
interviews with, 348–49, 395, 405
marriage, 344–45
memoirs, xxv, 334, 335, 344, 379, 380, 402, 471
as national brand, 338–39, 340–41, 347–48, 370, 401
roles danced by, 312, 333–35, 337, 341, 343, 351, 352–53, 361–62, 363, 367, 372–74, 384–85, 397, 403, 405
and Soviet confinement, 337–38, 343–44, 349, 395, 409
talent of, 330, 331, 333, 334, 338, 343
on tour, 330, 337–42, 344–50, 370, 371
training of, 332–33
Plisetsky, Mikhaíl, 330, 332, 335, 339
Plutarch, The Life of Crassus, 356
Poe, Edgar Allan, Red Masks, 227
Pogozhev, Vladimir, 135–36
Pogrebov, Boris, 320
Polenov, Vasiliy, Christ Child, 257
Polikarpov
, Dmitri, 299, 328
Politburo, 259, 269, 283
Polyakov, Andrey, 56–58
Pomerantsev, Vasiliy, 17
Ponomarena, Nina, 340
Pozharsky, Dmitri, 126
Pravda, 244, 245, 246, 251, 273, 279, 284–87, 290, 295, 304, 324, 328, 383, 403, 419
Prisoner of the Caucasus, The, or The Shade of the Bride, 59, 67
Prokofiev, Sergey, 261, 412
Cinderella, 315–17, 320, 321
death of, 323–24, 325
Ivan the Terrible, 392–93
Le pas d’acier, 263–65, 288
The Love for Three Oranges, 247–48
Romeo and Juliet, 287–92, 295–300, 315
and shifting politics, 262, 293, 295–96, 298, 300, 321–22
The Stone Flower, 322–23, 325, 328
Prozorovsky, Alexander, 33, 34–35, 40
Psyché et l’amour, 49
Puccini, Giacomo, Tosca, 124
Pugachev, Yemelyan, 8
Pugni, Cesare, 151–53, 162, 307, 447
Opera House Polka,” 152
Pushkin, Alexander, 31, 60, 133, 207
The Black Shawl, 67
The Prisoner of the Caucasus or The Shade of the Bride, 59, 67
Ruslan and Lyudmila, 67, 413
“Sing Not, My Beauty,” 412
Putin, Vladimir, xiii, 120, 126, 402, 407, 411, 415, 421–22
Pygmalion, 40
RABIS (All-Soviet Professional Union of Arts Workers), 228
Rachel, Mademoiselle (Élisa Félix), 157
Rachmaninoff, Sergey, 204, 412
Radlov, Sergey, 289, 290, 291
RAPM (Russian Association of
Proletarian Musicians), 263, 264–65, 266, 273, 279
Rasputin, Grigoriy, xix, 190
Ratmansky, Alexei, xix, xx, 407, 417–21, 469
Ravel, Maurice, Bolero, 397
Raykh, Zinaída, 294
Raykov, Gavrila, 32
Raymonda, 174, 351
Razin, Stepan, 314
Reagan, Ronald, 121
Reber, Napoléon Henri, 113
Red Army, 308–9
Red Masks, 227
Red Poppy, The, 243, 244–55, 311
Boston waltz in, 247, 250–51
and Geltser, 246, 248, 251–52
music for, 245–47, 249
politics of, 245–46, 247, 248–49, 269, 271–72
premiere of, 249, 253
as The Red Flower, 252
reviews of, 251–52, 274
sailors’ dance, 244, 246, 247
scenario, 245–46, 249–51
source material for, 244, 245
success of, 252, 409, 460
Reed, John, 233, 458
Reisinger, Wenzel, 163–65, 167, 169, 170, 175, 177, 198
Repina, Nadezhda, 79–80
Revolt of the Harem, The, 87
Ribbentrop, Joachim von, 306
Rïbin, Alexei, 312–13
Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolay, 162, 206, 207
The Maid of Pskov, 212
Roar, China!, 455
Robert le diable, 47
Ballet of the Nuns, 94–95, 160
Rodzinski, Artur, 280
Romanov dynasty, xix, xxvii
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