5. “very good at attracting”: Lieda Husainova.
6. “wanted to be different”: Hamet to Razida Evgrafova.
7. “Studying was his passion”: Hamza Ula.
8. “People liked him”: Ibid.
9. “We were like priests”: Igor Nikitin.
10. “She wanted us … My mother wished”: GB.
11. “The peasants there”: Ibid.
12. “narrow, frightening”: Auto.
13. “Six people and”: GB.
14. “These days you don’t”: Amina Galiakbarova.
15. “When the family”: Federat Musin.
16. “I remember those endless”: Auto.
17. “Farida-apa”: Amina Galiakbarova.
18. “Before the end”: Auto.
19. “In great poverty”: LB.
20. “I knew. That’s it”: GB.
21. “You ran in front”: Igor Nikitin.
22. “communicating with”: Local Party archive.
23. “He has a general”: Ibid.
24. “a severe, very powerful”: Auto.
25. “wanting to find a pal … suddenly I saw”: FOY-RN.
26. “very uncomfortable … From early years”: Ibid.
27. “almost a real”: ibid.
28. “At school boys”: Valentina Malofieva.
29. “Anna Ivanova knew”: Ibid.
30. “I don’t remember him … There were days”: Taisia Ilchininova interview, UTM.
31. “somehow different”: Marat Saidashev memoir, ibid.
32. “terrible little radio”: LB.
33. “He was a big authority”: Valentina Malofieva.
34. “He was jumping”: Konstantin Slovohotov.
35. “That to me was heaven”: FOY-RN.
36. “At home she must”: Alfat Valiev.
37. “What’s the matter”: Razida Evgrafova.
38. “He would come out”: Federat Musin.
39. “She told me about”: GB.
40. “This conception thrilled”: Auto.
41. “little Tatar boy”: FOY-RN.
42. “She forgave him”: Galina Artemieva.
43. “He took it”: Svetlana Shagieva.
44. “I am the wrong shape”: To Philip Oakes, Sunday Times, April 30, 1972.
45. “That comes from”: Svetlana Baisheva.
46. “wasn’t only giving”: Ilmira Goforova.
47. “Elena Konstantinovna set”: Shamile Teregulov.
48. “a one-person orchestra”: Ibid.
49. “She adored Rudolf”: Pamira Sulamenova.
50. “You can’t carry”: LB.
51. “So that I could go … You can dance”: Jerome Oremland.
52. “a little like a wolf pack … We were all for one”: Federat Musin.
53. “When it got destroyed”: Ibid.
54. “I remember those”: Quoted in Jean-Claude Carrière, “Le Cinéma de Rudolf Noureev” Studio Magazine, May 1987.
55. “This was the first”: Solomon Volkov, Conversations with Joseph Brodsky.
56. “stepping on people’s heads”: Albert Aslanov.
57. “as wildly improvised”: Auto.
58. “He had all the goodwill”: To David Letterman, Late Night with David Letterman, NBC, August 16, 1989.
59. “It took me days”: Auto.
60. “He could think of”: Svetlana Baisheva.
61. “In newspapers”: Galina Vishnevskaya, Galina. A Russian Story.
62. “Before, we had just”: Eldus Habirov.
63. “He would come with … He would arrive … I criticize only”: Pamira Sulamenova.
64. “Rudik sent his mother”: Azalia Cuchimova.
65. “Never had I encountered”: Auto.
66. “No one looked down”: Magafura Saligaskarova.
67. “Later when I saw”: Lina Smakova.
68. “If he didn’t like”: Svetlana Baisheva.
69. “At my age, given”: Auto.
70. “Finally something came”: To Lindsay Anderson, Omnibus, BBC-TV, 1974, NC@NYDL.
71. “That’s it. I’m going”: Auto.
72. “Calling you, beckoning you”: FOY-RN.
2 • HOLLYWOOD STORY
1. “Do you know”: Solomon Volkov, St. Petersburg: A Cultural History
2. “The architecture in Moscow”: Eg B.
3. “Rudolf loved the atmosphere”: Elena Zueva.
4. “Well, boy … He is a very talented”: Eg B.
5. “He didn’t say hello”: Sergiu Stefanschi.
6. “They said, ‘Pushkin is there’ ”: Dutch TV footage, courtesy of Wallace Potts.
7. “Shelkov was slighting me”: Ibid.
8. “an absolute Soviet product”: Igor Stupnikov.
9. “She read in English”: and subsequent quotations, Sergiu Stefanschi.
10. “more adventurously curious”: Grigore Vintila.
11. “sold his soul”: Igor Stupnikov.
12. “You had to be on a list … She was our goddess … Privately, never in front”: Sergiu Stefanschi.
13. “You know, I am seventeen”: Marina Vivien.
14. “two holy hours”: Eg B.
15. “His color would change”: Igor Stupnikov.
16. “He was working in a great tradition”: MB/JA.
17. “kind of irresistible”: FOY-RN.
18. “because Shelkov repressed”: Tamara Zakrzhevskaya.
19. “Maybe Lilen’ka”: Liuba Myasnikova.
20. “Father didn’t like to show”: Razida Evgrafova interview, UTM.
21. “He played one piece”: Albert Aslanov interview, ibid.
22. “He seemed like some kind of fanatic”: Alexander Minz, quoted in DD.
23. “in Pushkin’s class”: Vadim Kiselev.
24. “Pushkin would set”: Sergiu Stefanschi.
25. “a real torture”: Marina Vasilieva.
26. “Director never forgave me”: Eg B.
27. “Every day there was news”: Alexander Minz, quoted in DD.
28. “Shelkov used to love”: Ibid.
29. “I was intruder”: To Lindsay Anderson, Omnibus, BBC-TV, NC@NYDL.
30. “with big jail keys”: Leo Ahonen.
31. “When we played”: Ibid.
32. “Sleep was more important … “He didn’t like”: Sergiu Stefanschi.
33. “We didn’t mind”: Leo Ahonen.
34. “danced like crazy”: Anatoly Nikiforov.
35. “The pictures are only acting”: Ibid.
36. “To us it was”: To Jean-Claude Carrière, “Le Cinéma de Rudolf Noureev,” Studio Magazine, May 1987.
37. “Maybe they put”: Leo Ahonen.
38. “He was too busy”: Sergiu Stefanschi.
39. “She used to sit”: Ursula Collein.
40. “She was a serious Communist … such an extraordinary event”: Bella Kurgina.
41. “I was astonished”: Menia Martinez, DS.
42. “Conversation with”: Liuba Myasnikova.
43. “You get a most weird”: Walter Terry, April 15, 1978, Oral History Project, NYDL.
44. “Western art”: MB/JA.
45. “I could not lose a second”: Eg B.
46. “You think I’m good”: Roberta Lazzarini, quoted in Unz.
47. “Male dancing was very rough”: Cl B’s N.
48. “Before class, when”: MB/JA.
49. “this one toward”: Igor Stupnikov s.v. “Pushkin,” International Dictionary of Ballet.
50. “He used to say”: Eg B.
51. “He changed so much”: Anatoly Nikiforov.
52. “Bursting out of”: T. M. Vecheslova, quoted in 3 Yrs.
53. “I thought, God”: Vladimir Vasiliev, quoted in DS.
54. “It was a totally different”: Ibid.
55. “In Moscow they did not”: Solomon Volkov, Balanchine’s Tchaikovsky.
56. “Moscow style—well”: Alexandra Danilova, quoted in DD.
57. “At the Kirov, everything is best”: Cl B’s
N.
58. “You will see”: Elena Tchernichova, Ballet Review, Spring 1994.
59. “I hear you’re going to”: Auto.
60. “We had the Bronze Horseman”: Tamara Zakrzhevskaya, quoted in PW.
61. “Sounds like Hollywood story”: To Lindsay Anderson, Omnibus.
62. “It was an intoxicating … Our whole lives … Not for Anything … He was too immersed”: Liuba Myasnikova, 3 Yrs.
63. “We never knew”: Alla Sizova interview, translated by Geoff Whitlock, Unz.
64. “This was the first time”: Ibid.
65. “I said they were … I cried on the pavement”: To Lindsay Anderson, Omnibus.
66. “Why are you making”: Auto.
67. “Have you heard?”: Ninel Kurgapkina, quoted in 3 Yrs.
68. “hated each other … just a Yivreka”: source withheld.
69. “But Dudinskaya”: Sergiu Stefanschi.
70. “In his duets”: Valenia Chistyakova, quoted in 3 Yrs.
71. “an eruption of Vesuvius”: Alexander Minz, quoted in DD.
72. “It was not just Pushkin”: RN/EK.
73. “This was the nineteenth-century”: Kaye, Esquire, March 1991.
74. “It was the first experience”: Liuba Myasnikova.
75. “although it was obviously”: and other Gorskaya descriptions, Liuba Myasnikova, quoted in 3 Yrs.
76. “Here, in the Pushkins’ ”: Nikita Dolgushin, quoted in ibid.
77. “That’s what impressed”: Liuba Myasnikova.
3 • XENIA AND MENIA
1. “She was always running”: Alla Bor.
2. “He was a very modest man”: Dimitri Filatov.
3. “She didn’t want”: Galina Baranchukova.
4. “Alexander Ivanovich worked”: Dimitri Filatov.
5. “wanted to hear”: Liuba Myasnikova.
6. “Was Alexander Ivanovich”: Ibid.
7. “It was very painful … she never again”: Galina Baranchukova.
8. “He was such an excitement”: Liuba Myasnikova.
9. “intelligent people”: Alla Bor.
10. “When I leap”: Lubov Filatova.
11. “She knew how”: Dimitri Filatov.
12. “She fell totally in love”: Liuba Myasnikova.
13. “enormous sexual appetite”: Chinko Rafique.
14. “wanted to know”: Menia Martinez.
15. “He loved Rudik as a son”: source withheld.
16. “I want you to know”: Nureyev: From Russia with Love, BBC2 documentary produced and directed by John Bridcut, 2007.
17. “her husband correcting”: Nikita Dolgushin, quoted in 3 Yrs.
18. “Hey, how can you not … Getting your two turns”: Nicolai Kovmir.
19. “overfed with her care … She tried to create”: Tamara Zakrzhevskaya.
20. “very against … He would tell … like a lioness”: Liuba Myasnikova.
21. “as if he’d been sentenced … it seemed to me”: Tamara Zakrzhevskaya, quoted in 3 Yrs.
22. “Everything seemed to disturb him”: Vadim Kiselev.
23. “amazing quality of earthiness”: Ibid.
24. “Don’t mess!”: Quoted in DS.
25. “He saw real professionalism”: Vadim Desnitsky.
26. “You didn’t like it”: Vladimir Katayev.
27. “the Salieris”: Lynn Seymour, DT, April 2000.
28. “life-long enemies … I didn’t want”: Auto.
29. “grilled”: FOY-RN.
30. “the gayest, most beautiful”: Ibid.
31. “Not then”: Ibid.
32. “I felt that”: GB.
33. “young Cossack’s curiosity … I see you”: Roland Petit, Temps liés avec Noureev.
34. “I don’t need that”: Alla Sizova interview, translated by Geoff Whitlock. Unz.
35. “Unique Phenomenon … Nu-re-yev!… It was events”: Ninel Kurgapkina, quoted in 3 Yrs.
36. “a lonely figure”: The Dictionary of Art.
37. “I told my friend”: Auto.
38. “Have you heard?… One day he’s”: Alla Osipenko.
39. “We had never”: Razida Evgrafova.
40. “We talked for a bit”: Pamira Sulamenova interview, UTM. 76 “He’d grown up so much”: FOY-RN.
41. “feeble boy … Exercise and food!”: RN memoir, courtesy Alik Bikchurin.
42. “He told me that … I was really impressed”: Aslanov interview, UTM.
43. “And that was my great mistake”: Tamara Zakrzhevskaya.
44. “She got very jealous”: Slava Santto.
45. “very unpleasant … “This is not for your ears”: Alla Sizova, quoted in Unz.
46. “not to pay attention”: MB/JA.
47. “gave the impression”: Quoted in DS.
48. “It’s not difficult”: Ibid.
49. “In Russia he met”: Dimitri Filatov.
50. “It was a real”: Inoplanetyane, August 1993.
51. “Serioso knew everything”: Chinko Rafique.
52. “a choreographic Hermitage”: Vadim Kiselev.
53. “Rudolf felt pity”: Ibid.
54. “He was looking at him”: Tamara Zakrzhevskaya.
55. “knew for sure”: Faina Rokhind.
56. “like a god of wind”: Olga Moiseyeva.
57. “She was a dear”: Tamara Zakrzhevskaya, 3 Yrs.
58. “Rudolf understood very early”: Vadim Kiselev.
59. “genius with colour”: Ibid.
60. “We never saw such impudence”: Faina Rokhind.
61. “Naturally people would say … Everyone, let me tell you”: Sergiu Stefanschi, quoted in DD.
62. “like a hooligan boy”: Irina Kolpakova, translated by Yelena Demikovsky.
63. “a sparkling, beautiful”: Sergiu Stefanschi, quoted in DD.
64. “as if he had awakened”: Alla Osipenko.
65. “tenderness that breathed”: Alla Shelest, translated by Geoff Whitlock, Kultura, March 20, 1993.
66. “behind a mask”: Tamara Zakrzhevskaya, quoted in 3 Yrs.
67. “This was possibly”: Ibid.
68. “Soon a wonderful thing … Then suddenly”: Sergiu Stefanschi, quoted in DD.
69. “If you are a poet”: translated by Alexander Storozhuk, quoted in 3 Yrs.
70. “No sleep for you … out the door”: Tamara Zakrzhevskaya, quoted in 3 Yrs.
71. “She was completely obsessed”: source withheld.
72. “For the rest of her life”: Slava Santto.
73. “odd ménage”: Quoted in DS.
74. “But she didn’t want”: source withheld.
75. “Everybody did it”: Ibid.
76. “practically to rape”: Ibid.
77. “Do you speak English?”: LB.
78. “the athletics of”: The New Yorker, August 7, 2000.
79. “You could spot him”: Igor Stupnikov.
80. “do it quickly”: Ninel Kurgapkina, quoted in 3 Yrs.
81. “Why should I?” he argued … terribly upset”: Ibid.
82. “Replace me”: Tchernichova interview, Ballet Review, Spring 1994.
83. “an indecent and improper”: Bronislava Nijinska, Early Memoirs.
84. “After that night”: Tchernichova interview, Ballet Review, Spring 1994.
85. “Why on earth … This is unforgivable”: 3 Yrs.
86. “went crazy … an exultant Rudik”: 3 Yrs.
87. “Lola began telling him”: and subsequent quotations, Tamara Zakrzhevskaya, quoted in 3 Yrs.
88. “whose name is sacred”: Faina Rokhind.
89. “What are you saying”: Natasha Zaltsman to ibid.
90. “unusual inner liveliness … It was not necessary”: Kultura, March 20, 1993.
91. “They both knew”: Auto.
92. “He played full out”: Sergiu Stefanschi.
93. “sprang from Xenia … Don’t use the primitive”: Liuba Myasnikova, quoted in 3 Yrs.
4 • BLOOD BROTHERS
/> 1. “Rudolf got a lot”: Vladimir Fedianin.
2. “My teacher say to me”: RN/EK.
3. “I prepared whatever little”: Ibid.
4. “I made that so clear”: Quoted by Francis Mason, Nureyev Conference, St. Petersburg, March 13–15, 1998.
5. “There were clowns”: Ninel Kurgapkina.
6. “There is a teacher here”: Ibid.
7. “I could go … This money … My friend said”: RN/EK.
8. “That’s Teja”: Axel Mouwitz.
9. “Teja was always open”: source withheld.
10. “the art of male love”: Chinko Rafique.
11. “It became a fixation”: Tamara Zakrzhevskaya.
12. “a very free life”: source withheld.
13. “strange, closed”: Leonid Romankov.
14. “Xenia Josifovna”: source withheld.
15. “It was a liaison”: Chinko Rafique.
16. “Both of them enjoyed it”: Quoted in DS.
17. “Alexander Ivanovich was”: source withheld.
18. “He’d say, Go”: Chinko Rafique.
19. “Natalia Mihailovna”: Margarita Alexeyeva.
20. “doesn’t so much depart”: G. Dobrovolskaya, quoted in 3 Yrs.
21. “I was agog … It came back”: I nb B.
22. “They were literally”: Nikita Dolgushin, quoted in 3 Yrs.
23. “I don’t think that”: Yuri Grigorovich interview, courtesy Nina Alovert.
24. “Rudik, where are you going”: Tamara Zakrzhevskaya, quoted in 3 Yrs.
25. “a dissertation on”: Igor Stupnikov, s.v. “Legend of Love,” International Dictionary of Ballet.
26. “The score is 2–0”: Tamara Zakrzhevskaya, quoted in 3 Yrs.
27. “They were comrades”: Vladimir Fedianin.
28. “washing away the classical”: Ninel Kurgapkina.
29. “They felt that his energy”: Boris Bregvadze.
30. “more freedom-loving”: Unpublished memoir, courtesy of Faina Rokhind.
31. “It was as if he was born”: Yuri Naidich.
32. “Petipa didn’t want”: RN/NG.
33. “We scarcely said”: Kultura, March 20, 1993.
34. “He would have died”: MB/JA.
35. “In Russia … I did not belong to myself”: Eg B.
36. “the most beautiful ballet”: I nb B
37. “Whether as friend”: RN/EK.
38. “prepared inside”: Vadim Kiselev.
39. “They have quarrelled … There was only one”: Slava Santto.
40. “I did not have the possibility”: Quoted in Patrick Thevenon, Paris-Jour, June 23, 1961.
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