13. Dmitrii Volkogonov, Sem’ vozhdei [Seven leaders], vol. 2 (Moscow, 1996), p. 73.
14. Quoted in: Mark Altshuller and Elena Dryzhakova, Put’ otrecheniia. Russkaia literatura 1953– 1968 [Path of renunciation: Russian literature 1953–1968] (New Jersey, 1985), p. 333.
15. Vladimir Voinovich, Portret na fone mifa [Portrait on a background of myth] (Moscow, 2002), p. 52.
16. Lidia Chukovskaya, Zapiski ob Anne Akhmatovoi, vol. 2 (Paris, 1980), p. 449.
17. Voinovich, Portret na fone mifa, p. 44.
18. Solzhenitsyn, Bodalsia telenok s dubom, p. 316.
19. Kremlevskii samosud. Sekretnye dokumenty Politburo o pisatele A. Solzhenitsyne [Kremlin lynching; secret Politburo documents about the writer A. Solzhenitsyn] (Moscow, 1994), p. 133.
20. Ibid., pp. 353, 439.
21. Ibid., pp. 352–353.
Part Five: A TIME OF CHANGES
Chapter Thirteen
1. Dmitrii Volkogonov, Lenin. Politicheskii portret v dvukh knigakh [Lenin: a political portrait in two books], vol. 2 (Moscow, 1994), p. 186.
2. Ibid., p. 191.
3. Ibid., pp. 191–192.
4. Yakov Gordin in conversation with the author.
5. Kremlevskii samosud, p. 491.
6. Alfred Schnittke in conversation with the author.
7. Nikolai Boldyrev, Stalker, ili trudy i dni Andreia Tarkovskogo [Stalker, or the works and days of Andrei Tarkovsky] (Chelyabinsk, 2002), pp. 95–96.
8. Maya Turovskya, Pamiati tekushchego mgnoveniia [In memoriam of the current moment] (Moscow, 1987), pp. 230–231.
9. Ibid., p. 137.
10. Solomon Volkov, Istoriia kul’tury Sankt-Peterburga s osnovaniia do nashikh dnei [Cultural history of St. Petersburg from its founding to our times] (Moscow, 2001), p. 457.
11. Quoted in: Literaturnaia gazeta, May 5, 1993.
12. Quoted in: Yakov Gordin, Pereklichka vo mrake. Iosif Brodskii i ego sobesedniki [Calling out in the dark: Joseph Brodsky and his interlocutors] (St. Petersburg, 2000), p. 219.
13. Quoted in: Boldyrev, Stalker, p. 162.
14. Quoted in: Literaturnaia gazeta, March 8, 1995.
15. Andrei Konchalovsky, Nizkie istiny [Base truths] (Moscow, 1998), p. 115.
16. Vassily Aksyonov in conversation with the author.
17. Joseph Brodsky in conversation with the author.
18. Quoted in: Boldyrev, Stalker, p. 309.
19. Ibid., p. 336.
20. Besedy s Al’fredom Shnitke [Conversations with Alfred Schnittke] (Moscow, 1994), p. 233.
21. See Moskovskie novosti, October 1, 2004.
22. Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 285: Russian Writers Since 1980 (Farmington Hills, MI), p. 28.
23. Literaturnaia gazeta, May 5, 1993.
24. Ibid.
25. Leonard Bernstein in conversation with the author.
26. Znamia, 11 (2000), p. 154.
Chapter Fourteen
1. Mikhail Gorbachev, Zhizn’i reformy [Life and reforms], vol. 1 (Moscow, 1995), p. 265.
2. Volkogonov, Lenin, vol. 2, pp. 198–200.
3. Volkogonov, Sem’ vozhdei, vol. 2, p. 413.
4. Solzhenitsyn, Publitsistika, vol. 2, p. 556.
5. Ibid., p. 563.
6. Ibid., p. 554.
