Romanticism, 68, 80, 82, 105, 112, 161, 375, 378, 379, 408
Romeo and Juliet, 287–93, 406
and drambalet, 290, 297, 298, 300
music for, 289, 291–92, 297–98
and politics, 288, 290–91, 292–93, 295–96, 319
premieres of, 287–88, 296–97, 298
and Prokofiev, 287–92, 295–300, 315
revivals of, 326, 329, 341, 384
and Shakespeare, 289, 290, 292, 296
survival of, 311, 359, 409
Rome Opera, 402
Rosberg, Christian, 13, 34
Roslavleva, Lyubov, 193, 194
Ross, Janice, 271, 358, 363
Rossi, Carlo, 46
Rossini, Gioachino, 71, 414
Il barbiere di Siviglia, 124
William Tell, 98
Rostopchin, Fyodor, 52–53, 63
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 24
Royal Ballet, London, 339
Royal Opera House, London, 340
Rozhdestvensky, Gennadiy, 365, 469
RSFSR (Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic), 205, 235, 236, 260, 302, 337, 405
Rubinstein, Anton, The Demon, 136, 137
Rubinstein, Ida, 396
Ruslan and Lyudmila, 67, 70, 413, 414
Russell, William Howard, 127–29
Russia:
anarchists in, 202
cholera in, 180–81, 219
civil war in, 202, 210, 219–21, 329
and Crimean War, 120, 146
French influence in, 47
imperial era of, 67, 80, 127, 132, 142, 200–202, 262, 421–22
Napoleonic invasion (1812) of, see Napoleonic Wars
national brands of, xxv, xxvi, xxix, 59, 61, 130–31
pogroms in, 131
politics of the theater, 124, 126, 131–32, 262
Romantic era in, 112
Silver Age in, 229, 243, 256
Table of Ranks, 133, 139
Time of Troubles, 12
Russian ballet:
continuity in, xxvi, 242, 261, 311, 422–23
ethnographic realism in, 208, 214–15
European court dances in, 62
imperial tradition in, xviii, xix, 207–8, 232, 242, 243, 261
improvements in, 160, 261
invention of, 61–62
modernism in, 208, 212, 227, 230, 234–35, 264, 274, 285, 363
political influences on, xxiv, 207, 212, 221–23, 232–33, 260–65, 269–76, 296, 300, 319–20, 346
Pushkin sources of, 59, 60, 67, 166
Romanticism in, 68, 378, 379
on Russian themes, 68
Table of Ranks in, 87, 139, 214
Tchaikovsky’s influence on, 160–78, 314, 375
training in, 48–49, 87
Vaganova’s treatise on, 300
see also ballet
Russian Federation, constitution of, xiv, 329, 335
Russian [folk] dances, 59–61, 302–3
Russian language, accents and stresses in, 70, 100
Russian music, Russianness in, 69–70
Russian Orthodox Church, 130, 133, 261, 421
Russian Revolution (1917), 6, 130, 199, 200–207, 261
anniversaries of, 211–12, 266, 290, 293, 313, 354
and the arts, 124, 234–35, 266, 419
and Bloody Sunday, 200
and Bolshoi, xii, xiii, 204–11, 215, 269, 329
collective spirit of, 226, 230, 232, 260
interpretation of events in, 229, 233
and Lenin, 201–7
provisional government, 201, 207–9
Silver Age preceding, 229, 243, 256
and socialism, 201, 233
Russian State Archive of Literature and Art, 212
Ryabtsev, Vladimir, 217
Ryazan-Moscow merchants, 31, 32, 36, 38, 40
Ryzhenko, Natalya, 381
Saburov, Andrey, 443
Saint-Léon, Arthur, 125, 151, 153, 156
St. Petersburg:
capital moved to Moscow from, 189, 203, 299
competition with Moscow, 80, 143, 146–47
imperial capital in, 80, 119, 132–33
as portal to Europe, 133
St. Petersburg Imperial Theaters, 43, 144
college curriculum of, 59
government control of, 260
Moscow theaters under control of, 74–78, 119, 135, 138
Saint-Saëns, Camille, Le carnaval des animaux, 333
Salammbô, 239–40
Salisbury, Harrison E., 325
Salomé, 233
Salomone, Giuseppe II, 21–22
Saltïkov-Shchedrin, Mikhaíl, 88
Sankovskaya, Alexandra, 96–97, 99–100, 112
Sankovskaya, Ekaterina, 81–96, 404, 416
birth and early life of, 83, 112
career of, xxvii, 81–82, 91, 92, 96, 112, 115
choreography by, 88
contracts of, 86, 87–88
death of, 91, 115
fans of, xxvii, 88, 91–96, 101, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109
health problems of, 89–91, 101
and her sister, 96, 99, 112
images of, 82–83, 408
letters of, 112–13, 114, 115
and Moscow Imperial Theaters, 84–87, 89–90
as première danseuse, 85–87, 89
retirement, 91, 96, 112–13
rivals of, 83, 88–89, 96–97, 101–4, 105–9
role models of, 82, 84, 105
roles danced by, 83–84, 85–86, 92–95, 98, 99, 104, 106–7, 109, 113–15, 143, 439
and Romantic ballet, 82–83, 112
technique of, 82, 83–84, 86, 89, 93–94, 98, 105, 106–7, 109
travels of, 84, 88, 90, 104
Satanilla, 113–15, 117
Scheherazade, 360
Schlögel, Karl, xiv
Schubert, Franz, Moments musicaux, 241
Schubertiade, 240
Scott, Julia May (Zhilko), 341
Scriabin, Alexander, 226
Prometheus: the Poem of Fire, 211–12
Scribe, Eugène, 85
Seagull, The, 400, 401, 402
Šemberová, Zora, 296
Semichastnïy, Vladimir, 346–47
Semyonov, Alexander, 22
Semyonova, Marina, xv–xvi, 73, 289, 290, 294, 343
serfs, emancipation of, 130
serf theaters, private, 33, 36, 41, 44, 46, 57
Sergey Aleksandrovich, Grand Duke, 131
Sergeyev, Konstantin, 271, 318, 321
Sergeyev, Nikolay, 183
Shakespeare, William:
Macbeth, 401
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 278
Much Ado About Nothing, xv
Romeo and Juliet, 289, 290, 292, 296
Venus and Adonis, 27
Shalikov, Prince Pyotr, 437
Shaposhnikov, Egorov, 159
Shauro, Vasiliy, 396
Shchedrin, Rodion, 344–45, 350, 370, 372, 381, 383–85, 400, 410
Shchepkin, Mikhaíl, 45–46, 83, 91
Shcherbakov, Yuriy, 338, 339
Sheremetyev, Nikolay, 2, 36
Sheremetyev, Count Pyotr, 27
Sheremetyevskaya, Natalya, 271
Sherman, Isay, 298
Shilovsky, Pyotr, 144
Shining Path, The, 315–16
Shishko, Makar, 144–46, 147, 148
Sholokhov, Mikhaíl, And Quiet Flows the Don, 392
Shostakovich, Dmitri, 262, 295, 320, 348, 370, 390–92, 393, 418
The Bolt, 273–75
The Bright Stream, 275–80, 281, 284–87, 289, 312, 391, 418–19
death of, 391, 394
The Golden Age, 271–73, 394, 398
The Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District, 280–83, 284, 287
Leningrad Symphony, 280
The Nose, 265, 266
official denunciation of, 279, 282–87, 290, 292, 321, 390, 391
Orango, 266–67, 462–63
The Soccer Player, 270–71
Shumyatsky, Boris, 286
Shvernik, Nikolay, 276
Skvortsov, Ruslan, 419
Sleeping Beauty, The, 169, 174, 181, 183, 187, 195, 206, 238, 274, 314, 336, 420
Smirnov, Viktor, 137, 273–74, 275, 381
Smirnova, Olga, xxv–xxvi
Snow Maiden, The, 167, 315, 317
Sobakina, Arina, 32
Sobchak, Kseniya, xxii Sobeshchanskaya, Anna, 150, 155, 170–73, 174, 175, 179, 182, 198, 242
Sobinov, Leonid, 209
Soccer Player, The, 270–71
socialist realism, official artistic doctrine of, xviii–xix, 260–62, 296, 321, 323, 384, 415, 420
Sokolovsky, Mikhaíl, 12
Sollertinsky, Ivan, 274, 276, 279, 285
Sor, Fernando, 68
Sorcerer’s Apprentice, The, 275
Souritz, Elizabeth, 310
Soviet-Finnish war, 236, 256, 298
Soviet Union:
awards and prizes in, 268–69, 298, 299, 307, 311, 321, 337, 370, 392
ballet in, see Russian ballet
birth of, xiii–xiv, 200–202, 259
bureaucracy in, 262, 287, 326
censorship in, 232–33, 236, 240, 252, 253, 260–62, 269, 284, 300, 307, 313–14, 316, 321, 323, 326, 328–29, 354, 358, 458
Central Control Commission, 229
children in, 221–22, 336
collapse of, xiii, 121, 363, 402, 406–7, 415
communism, 201, 223–24, 231
constitution of, xiv, 329, 335
control of the arts, xiv, 221–23, 225, 232–33, 253, 260–62, 320
defections, xxvi, 318, 337, 345, 350, 402
failed coup d’état in, 405–6
financial concerns of, 340, 345
glasnost’ in, 404, 405
Gulag, 259, 294, 460
and Molotov–Ribbentrop Non-Aggression Pact, 306, 307
national brands of, 338–39, 340–41, 347, 370
New Economic Policy (NEP) of, 220–21
oil profits of, 340, 421
perestroika in, 404
Politburo, 259, 269, 283
shifting politics in, 267–68, 288, 292–95
the Thaw,” 325, 326, 327, 369, 391
weakening of, 404, 405
and World War II, 307–14, 317–18, 356
Spanish National Ballet, 402
Spartacus, 347, 355–70, 384
bureaucratic dislike of, 346, 357–58, 359, 361–62
choreography for, 353, 357–58, 362, 369
escapist appeal of, 369–70
music for, 301, 307, 353, 356, 357, 360–61, 362, 364–66
popularity on tour, 359–60, 362
premiere of, 354, 361
scenario, 356–57, 360, 361, 364, 366, 380
sources for, 356, 358, 360–61
on tour, 359–60, 362–63
Spiridonova, Mariya, 205, 206
Stalin, Joseph, xv, 236, 255, 277
and ballet, 214–15, 227, 299, 303, 309–10, 314, 318, 321, 334–35, 337, 339, 341, 358, 376
and constitution, xiv, 335
death of, 324, 334, 339, 355
five-year plans of, 263, 269, 276, 419
ideological principles, 260, 292, 302
and Khachaturian, 302, 303, 305
and Lenin’s death, 230, 231
and militarization of culture, 261, 292–93
and Politburo, 259, 283
and Prokofiev, 295–96
and purges, see Stalinist purges and Red Poppy, 245–46, 248
rise to power, 202, 223–24, 232, 258, 324
and Shostakovich, 276, 282, 283, 285–87
and World War II, 307–8
Stalin, Svetlana, 324
Stalinist purges, xiv, xxiv, 206, 219, 259, 264–65, 270, 294–95, 301, 302, 319, 329, 335, 356
Stanislavskaya, Mariya, 169
Stanislavsky, Konstantin, 91, 242
Stanislavsky Theater, Moscow, xvi, xxii
Starchakov, Alexander, 462–63
Stars, 194
Starzer, Josef, 18
Stasevich, Abram, 392
State Academic Bolshoi Theater, xiv, 309, 311; see also Bolshoi Theater
State Malïy Opera Theater, 275
Stenka Razin, 212
Stepanov, Vladimir, L’alphabet des mouvements du corps humain, 195, 199
Stone Flower, The, 322–25, 326–28, 345, 347, 351, 379, 380
Strauss, Richard:
Death and Transfiguration, 231
Salomé, 233
Stravinsky, Igor, 208, 232, 402, 417
Firebird, 360
Suslov, Mikhaíl, 386
Svetlana, the Slavic Princess, 134–35, 328
Swan Lake, xxv, 162–78, 216, 242, 256, 272, 337, 341, 373, 387
endurance of, 182, 198, 260, 318
evolution of, 181, 197–98, 233, 375–79
fouetté turns in, 184–85, 186
music for, xxviii, 165, 168–70, 171, 174, 175, 176, 182, 360, 378, 450
Odette/Odile role in, xxi, xxiv, 165–66, 169, 170, 173–74, 178–79, 182, 184–85, 186, 187, 239, 312, 334–35, 342, 343, 348, 376, 378, 379
and Petipa, 140, 175, 179, 180–87, 197, 198, 376, 377
premieres of, xxvii, 162–63, 165, 171, 172–73, 179, 182
reviews of, 163, 168–69, 170–71, 175, 177, 178, 185, 186
revivals of, 180, 384, 420–21
scenario, 167–68, 235, 375
special effects for, 149, 177–78, 179–80
staging of, 163, 183–84, 197
story of, xxviii, 165–66, 177
as symbol, 314, 405, 406
Swift, Mary Grace, 49
Szymanowski, Karol, Harnasie, 326
Taglioni, Filippo, 92, 98
Taglioni, Marie, xxvii, 82, 84, 86, 88, 92, 94, 95, 98, 105, 446
Taglioni, Paul, 143, 447
Tannhäuser, 136
Taylor, Frederick Winslow, 274
Tchaikovsky, Modest, 163, 167, 181
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr, xiv, 160–78, 186, 225, 315, 323, 412
death of, 180–81, 182, 193
1812 Overture, 130
Iolanta, 148, 206
Italian Capriccio, 272
The Nutcracker, 169, 174, 182, 420
as official court composer, 173
Pathétique Symphony, 231
The Queen of Spades, 193, 232
and Romanticism, 161
Serenade for Strings, 332
The Sleeping Beauty, 169, 174, 181, 183, 420
Swan Lake, xxiv, xxviii, 162–78, 180–84, 198, 314, 375, 377, 378, 420, 450
The Voyevoda, 162
Watanabe, 452
Telyakovsky, Vladimir, 188, 194, 443
Terentyev, Igor, 458
Terry, Walter, 362
Thompson, Llewellyn E., 327
Tikhomirov, Vasiliy, 193, 236–38, 241, 244, 246, 252, 254, 256, 257, 309
Timofeyeva, Nina, 342
Tito, Marshal, 338
Titov, Nikolay, 17
Tolstoy, Alexei, 462–63
Tolstoy, Leo, 52
Anna Karenina, 381–85, 401, 402
War and Peace, 46–47
Tosca, 124
Tseytshel, Bengardt, 148
Tsiskaridze, Nikolay, xvii–xviii, xix, xx, xxi, xxii, xxiii, 412, 417
2001: A Space Odyssey, 303
Two-Timed Village Doctor, The, 21
Tyerman, Edward, 248
Ukrasov, Andrey, 32
Ulanova, Galina, 271, 394, 404, 416
awards and honors to, 298–99
and Cinderella, 315, 319, 320
and Grigorovich, 350–51, 352
and Romeo and Juliet, 297–98, 299, 300, 311, 318, 326, 340–41
and Spartacus, 365, 371
and Stone Flower, 324, 325, 347
on tour, 341–42, 347
training of, 299–300
Undine, 168
Union of Soviet Composers, 282, 301, 323, 350, 360, 400
/> Urin, Vladimir, xvii, xxii, xxiv, 423, 469
Urusov, Prince Pyotr, 1, 9–11, 13
USSR, see Soviet Union
Vaganova, Agrippina, 299–300
Vakhvakhishvili, Tamara, 355
Valberg, Ivan, 46, 47–50, 54, 60, 69
Valts, Fyodor Karlovich, 148
Valts, Karl, 139, 150, 164, 180, 220
65 Years in the Theater, 79, 148–49, 171–72, 177–78
and Swan Lake, 149, 171–72, 177–78, 179–80, 375
Váña-Psota, Ivo, 296
Vanner, Wilhelm, 155
Varlamov, Alexei, 309
Varzar, Nina, 295
Vashkevich, Anton, 136
Vasiliev, Ivan, 420
Vasiliev, Vladimir, 367–68, 371, 378, 394, 401, 403, 405, 469
Vasiltsovsky, Alexander, 74, 76–77
Vasilyov, Vladimir, 381
Vaynonen, Vasiliy, 419
Vazem, Ekaterina, 132
Vaziev, Makhar, xxviii, 433
V buryu (Into the Storm) [opera], xiv
Verdi, Giuseppi:
Aida, 210, 220
Rigoletto, 124
Verne, Jules, Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours, 170
Veronina-Ivanova, Alexandra, 97
Verstovsky, Alexei, 70–73, 81, 106, 116, 117–18, 119–20
Askold’s Tomb, 71–72, 73, 74, 78
and Bolshoi Ballet, 143–44
death of, 120
and Gedeonov, 76–80, 99, 100, 101, 102
Grandma’s Parrots, 71
Pan Twardowski, 71
and Sankovskaya, 89–90, 91, 102–3, 106–7
Victoria, queen of England, 189
Virsaladze, Simon, 352, 366
Vishnevskaya, Galina, 282, 388, 411
Vladimirov, Yuriy, 393
Vladimir the Great, 126
VOKS, 252, 273, 280, 340
Volkonsky, Grigoriy, 147
Volkonsky, Mikhaíl, 10, 34
Volkonsky, Sergey, 188, 443
Volkov, Nikolay, 316–17, 355–57, 364
Volynsky, Akim, 185, 186, 243
Vorontsov, Roman, 11, 13
Vorontsova, Anzhelina, xxi Voroshilov, Kliment, 276
Vsevolozhsky, Ivan, 135, 138–40, 188, 443
Vsevolozhsky, Nikita, 437–38
Wagner, Richard:
Die Walküre, 220
Götterdämmerung, 167
Lohengrin, 167
Siegfried, 166–67, 231
Tannhäuser, 136
Wanzura, Ernst, 27
War of 1812, see Napoleonic Wars
Weber, Carl Maria von, Der Freischütz, 71
Weiss, Luisa, 100–105
White Duck, The (Russian folktale), 168
William Tell, 98
World War I, 190, 200, 201, 202, 203, 242
World War II, xv, 121, 179, 235, 260, 296, 307–14, 317–18, 329, 332, 356
Worsley, Sir Richard, 25–26
Yakobson, Leonid, 271, 346, 358–63, 364–66, 368, 398
Yanayev, Gennadiy, 405, 406
Yanchevetsky, Vasiliy, 355
Yeltsin, Boris, 405–6
Yezhov, Nikolay, 294
Yurkevich, Pyotr, 82
Bolshoi Confidential Page 54