1. Kratkaiia literaturnaiia entsiklopediia [Short encyclopedia of literature], vol. 8 (Moscow, 1975), p. 57.
2. More on this in: Solomon Volkov, Shostakovich i Stalin: khudozhnik i tsar’ [Shostakovich and Stalin: artist and tsar] (Moscow, 2004), pp. 252–261; Shostakovich and Stalin: The Extraordinary Relationship Between the Great Composer and the Brutal Dictator (New York, 2004), pp. 102–106.
3. Pravda, January 28, 1936.
4. Pravda, February 13, 1936.
5. More on this in Volkov, Shostakovich i Stalin, pp. 358–360; Volkov, Shostakovich and Stalin, pp. 153–154.
6. Lev Trotsky, Stalin, in two volumes, vol. 2 (Vermont, 1985), p. 211.
7. Quoted in: Ilya Ehrenbug, Ludi, gody, zhizn’. Vospominaniia [People, years, life: reminiscences], in three volumes, vol. 3 (Moscow, 1990), p. 211.
8. Voprosy literatury, 3 (1989), p. 221.
9. Ibid.
10. D. Merezhkovsky, Ne mir, no mech [Not peace, but the sword] (Kharkov and Moscow, 2000), p. 330.
11. Ibid., p. 576.
12. Literaturnoe nasledstvo, vol. 70: Gor’kii i sovetskie pisateli. Neizdannaia perepiska [Gorky and Soviet writers: unpublished correspondence] (Moscow, 1963), p. 568.
13. Novyi mir, 9 (1997), p. 188.
14. Literaturnoe nasledstvo, vol. 84: Ivan Bunin, book 2 (Moscow, 1973), p. 7.
15. Ibid., p. 34.
16. Ivan Bunin, Velikii durman. Neizvestnye stranitsy [Great delirium: unknown pages] (Moscow, 1997), p. 152.
17. Marina Tsvetayeva, Sobranie sochinenii [Collected works] in seven volumes, vol. 6 (Moscow, 1995), p. 407.
18. Boris Eikhenbaum, O literature [On literature] (Moscow, 1987), p. 440.
19. Vladislav Khodasevich, Koleblemyi trenozhnik. Izbrannoe [Unstable tripod: selected works] (Moscow, 1991), p. 362.
20. Literaturnoe nasledstvo, vol. 84, book 2, p. 375.
21. Quoted in: Oleg Mikhailov, Zhizn’ Bunina [Life of Bunin] (Moscow, 2001), p. 387.
22. Sankt-Peterburgskie vedomosti, December 8, 1901.
23. Galina Kuznetsova, Grasskii dnevnik [Grasse diary] (Moscow, 1995), p. 201.
24. Ibid., p. 210.
25. Ustami Buninykh [In the words of the Bunins], in three volumes, vol. 2 (Frankfurt-am-Main, 1981), p. 256.
26. Kuznetsova, Grasskii dnevnik, p. 293.
27. Bunin, Velikii durman, p. 168.
28. Ustami Buninykh, p. 290.
29. Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 40 (1999), p. 276.
30. Quoted in: Viktor Fradkin, Delo Kol’tsova [Koltsov case] (Moscow, 2002), p. 227.
31. Ibid., p. 211.
32. Ehrenburg, Ludi, gody, zhizn’, vol. 2, p. 53.
33. Oleg Platonov, Gosudartstvennaia izmena. Zagovor protiv Rossii [State treason: the conspiracy against Russia] (Moscow, 2004), p. 9.
34. Istoriia Rossii. XX vek [History of Russia: twentieth century] (Moscow, 2000), p. 386.
35. Teatral’naia zhizn’, 5 (1989), p. 3.
Part Three: RENDEZVOUS WITH STALIN
Chapter Seven
1. Kratkaia literaturnaia entsiklopediia, vol. 7, p. 93.
2. Voprosy literatury, 2 (1989), p. 148.
3. Pravda, March 16, 1941.
4. Nadezhda Mandelstam, Vospominaniia, p. 156.
