39. Cherniayev, Shest’ let s Gorbachevym, pp. 277–278.
40. Vyacheslav Kostikov, Roman s prezidentom [Novel with a president] (Moscow, 1997), p. 339.
41. Mikhail Kozakov, Risunki na peske [Drawings in the sand] (Tel-Aviv, 1993), p. 254.
42. Kostikov, Roman s prezidentom, p. 339.
43. Nash Sovremennik, 11–12 (1998), p. 185.
44. Quoted in: Zhores Medvedev, Roy Medvedev, Solzhenitsyn i Sakharov. Dva proroka [Solzhenitsyn and Sakharov: two prophets] (Moscow, 2004), p. 213.
45. Sintaksis, 36 (1998), p. 149.
46. Kontinent, 18 (1978), p. 345.
47. G. P. Fedotov, Sud’ba i grekhi Rossii. Izbrannye stat’i po filosofii russkoi istorii i kul’tury [Fate and sins of Russia: selected articles on the philosophy of Russian history and culture], vol. 2 (St. Petersburg, 1992), p. 167.
48. Ibid.
49. Viktor Toporov, Pokhorony Gullivera v strane liliputov [Gulliver’s funeral in the land of Lilliputians] (St. Petersburg and Moscow, 2002), pp. 180–181.
50. Sergei Gandlevsky, Poeticheskaija kukhnia [Poetic kitchen] (St. Petersburg, 1998), pp. 68–69.
51. Ibid., p. 57.
52. Dmitri Prigov and Sergei Shapoval, Portretnaya galereia D. A. P. [D. A. P. portrait gallery] (Moscow, 2003), p. 92.
53. Boris Yeltsin, Prezidentskii marafon [Presidential marathon] (Moscow, 2000), p. 127.
54. Sovetskaia Rossiia, May 16, 2000.
55. O Rossii i russkoi filosofskoi kul’ture [About Russia and Russian philosophical culture] (Moscow, 1990), p. 44.
56. L. N. Gumilev, Ritmy Evrazii [Rhythms of Eurasia] (Moscow, 1993), p. 24.
57. L. N. Gumilev, Ot Rusi do Rossii [From Rus to Russia] (St. Petersburg, 1992), p. 250.
58. Gumilev, Ritmy Evrazii, p. 31.
59. Alexander Dugin, Proekt “Evraziia” [Project Eurasia] (Moscow, 2004), p. 349.
60. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Rossiia v obvale [Russia collapsing] (Moscow, 1998), p. 149.
61. Ibid., pp. 159, 175–176.
62. Segodnya, September 7, 1993.
63. Borodin, Bez vybora, p. 403.
64. Ibid., p. 404.
65. Chaika, 21 (2005), p. 27.
66. Ibid.
67. Solzhenitsyn, Na vozvrate dykhaniia, p. 519.
A Note About the Author
Solomon Volkov is the award-winning author of several notable books about Russian culture, including St. Petersburg: A Cultural History and Shostakovich and Stalin, published worldwide. After moving to the United States from the Soviet Union, he became a cultural commentator at the Voice of America and then Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, broadcasting to the USSR (and later, Russia), discussing contemporary artistic developments in his former homeland. He lives in New York City with his wife, Marianna, a pianist and photographer.
A Note About the Translator
The prizewinning translator Antonina W. Bouis is known for her work with contemporary Russian literature. She and her husband, Jean-Claude, live in New York City and travel to Russia regularly.
ALSO BY SOLOMON VOLKOV
Shostakovich and Stalin
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St. Petersburg: A Cultural History
From Russia to the West: The Musical Memoirs and Reminiscences of Nathan Milstein
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Testimony: The Memoirs of Dmitri Shostakovich
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