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Nureyev : The Life (9780307807342)

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by Kavanagh, Julie

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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