37. Quoted in: Vaslav Nijinsky, Chuvstva. Tetradi [Feelings: notebooks] (Moscow, 2000), p. 151.
38. Quoted in: E. Poliakova, Nikolai Rerikh (Moscow, 1985), p. 172.
39. Utro Rossii, August 17, 1914.
40. Zavety, 6 (1912), p. 67.
41. Quoted in: I. Stravinskii-publitsist i sobesednik [I. Stravinsky, columnist and interlocutor] (Moscow, 1988), p. 22.
42. Ibid.
43. Blok, Sobranie sochinenii, vol. 6, p. 11.
44. Ibid., p. 10.
45. A. N. Benois, Moi dnevnik [My Diary] (Moscow, 2003), p. 75.
46. Ibid., p. 107.
47. A. Blok, Dnevnik [Diary] (Moscow, 1989), p. 210.
48. Benois, Moi dnevnik, p. 228.
Part Two: A TIME OF CATASTROPHES
Chapter Three
1. A. V. Lunacharsky, Ob izobrazitel’nom iskusstve [On fine arts], in two volumes, vol. 1 (Moscow, 1967), p. 129.
2. Ibid.
3. Na literaturnom postu, 22–23 (1927), p. 18.
4. Novaia zhizn’, November 10, 1917.
5. Benois, Moi dnevnik, p. 273.
6. A. Rylov, Vospominaniia [Reminiscences] (Leningrad, 1977), p. 193.
7. Ibid.
8. Iskusstvo kommuny, December 7, 1918.
9. Natan Altman in conversation with the author.
10. Alexander Blok, Zapisnye knihzki. 1901–1920 [Notebooks: 1901–1920] (Moscow, 1965), p. 429.
11. Kazimir Malevich, Chernyi kvadrat [Black square] (St. Petersburg, 2001), p. 49.
12. Quoted in: A. Fevral’skii, Pervaia sovetskaia p’esa. “Misteriia-buff” V. V. Maiakovskogo [The first Soviet play: V.V. Mayakovsky’s Mystery Bouffe] (Moscow, 1971), p. 70.
13. Ibid.
14. Ibid.
15. Zhizn’ iskusstva, November 11, 1918.
16. Petrogradskaia Pravda, November 21, 1918.
17. Quoted in: Alexander Gladkov, Teatr: Vospominaniia i razmyshleniia [The theater: reminiscences and considerations] (Moscow, 1980), p. 308.
18. V. E. Meierkhol’d, Perepiska. 1896–1939 [Correspondence: 1896–1939] (Moscow, 1976), p. 29.
19. Ibid.
20. Gladkov, Teatr, p. 306.
21. Georgy Chulkov, Gody stranstvii [Years of Wandering] (Moscow, 1930), p. 221.
22. Blok, Dnevniki, p. 248.
23. Literaturnoe nasledstvo, vol. 89: Aleksandr Blok. Pis’ma k zhene [Alexander Blok: letters to his wife] (Moscow, 1978), p. 256.
24. Blok, Dnevnik, p. 199.
25. Ibid, p. 173.
26. Gladkov, Teatr, p. 307.
27. Quoted in: K. Rudnitskii, Rezhisser Meierkhol’d [Meyerhold the director] (Moscow, 1969), p. 237.
28. Ibid., p. 244.
29. Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein, Memuary [Memoirs], in two volumes, vol. 1 (Moscow, 1997), p. 220.
30. Quoted in: K. Rudnitskii, Meierkhol’d [Meyerhold] (Moscow, 1971), p. 285.
