13. P. A. Kropotkin, Zapiski revoliutsionera [Memoirs of a revolutionary] (Moscow, 1966), p. 240.
14. G. A. Tishkin, Zhenskii vopros v Rossii: 50–60–e gody XIX v. [The women’s issue in 1850s and 1860s Russia] (Leningrad, 1984), pp. 213–14.
15. Prince Meshcherskii, Vospominaniia [Memoirs] (Moscow, 2001), p. 332.
16. L. N. Tolstoi, Perepiska s russkimi pisateliami [Correspondence with Russian writers], in two volumes, vol. 1 (Moscow, 1978), p. 464.
17. Anna Akhmatova, in conversation with the author.
18. Ibid.
19. Quoted from Aleksei Zverev and Vladimir Tunimanov, Lev Tolstoi [Leo Tolstoy] (Moscow, 2007), p. 443.
20. M. Gor’kii, Literaturnye portrety [Literary portraits] (Moscow, 1983), p. 155.
21. Ibid., p. 199.
22. Quoted from Zverev and Tunimanov, p. 466.
23. Ibid., p. 465.
24. L. L. Sabaneev, Vospominaniia o Taneeve [Reminiscences of Taneev] (Moscow, 2003), pp. 65–66.
25. Gor’kii, p. 168.
CHAPTER 11
Tchaikovsky and Homosexuality in Imperial Russia
1. P. I. Chaikovskii, Perepiska s. N. F. von Mekk [Correspondence with Nadezhda von Meck], vol. 2 (Moscow and Leningrad, 1935), p. 63.
2. P. I. Chaikovskii, Pis’ma k rodnym [Correspondence with family], vol. 1 (Moscow, 1940), p. 268.
3. Chaikovskii, Perepiska, p. 63.
4. Dnevniki P. I. Chaikovskogo. 1873–1891 [Tchaikovsky journals, 1873–1891] (Moscow and Petrograd, 1923), p. 209.
5. Quote from A. Shol’p, “Evgenii Onegin” Chaikovskogo. Ocherki. [Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin: Essays] (Leningrad, 1982), p. 15.
6. P. Chaikovskii, Polnoe sobranie sochinenii. Literaturnye proizvedeniia i perepiska [Complete collected works: Literary works and correspondence], vol. 6 (Moscow, 1961), p. 100.
7. Quoted from Lev Tolstoi i muzyka. Khronika. Notografiia. Bibliografiia [Leo Tolstoy and music: Chronicle, bibliography of musical scores, bibiliography] (Moscow, 1977), pp. 149–50.
8. L. Tolstoi, Perepiska s russkimi pisateliami [Correspondence with Russian writers], p. 185.
9. Ibid., p. 187.
10. M. Chaikovskii, Zhizn’ Petra Il’icha Chaikovskogo [Life of Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky], in three volumes, vol. 2 (Moscow, 1997), p. 232.
11. G. A. Larosh, Izbrannye stat’i [Selected articles], part 2 (Leningrad, 1975), p. 104.
12. See, for instance, interview with Mikhail Buianov, president of the Moscow Academy of Psychotherapy, “Was Tchaikovsky a Homosexual?” in Argumenty i fakty, 49 (2003), p. 20.
13. Richard Taruskin, On Russian Music (Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London, 2009), p. 98.
14. M. Chaikovskii, Zhizn, vol. 2, p. 11.
15. Theodule-Armand Ribot, Volia v ee normal’nom i boleznennom sostoianii [The will in its normal and diseased state] (St. Petersburg, 1894), p. 121.
16. Vospominnaniia o P. I. Chaikovskom [Reminiscences of P. I. Tchaikovsky] (Moscow, 1979), p. 399.
17. Ibid., p. 400.
18. Ibid., pp. 130–31.
19. P. I. Chaikovskii, Al’manakh [Anthology], part 1 (Moscow, 1995), p. 127.
20. Aleksandr Poznanskii, Samoubiistvo Chaikovskogo: Mif i real’nost’ [Suicide of Tchaikovsky: Myth and reality] (Moscow, 1993), p. 40.
21. E. Feoktistov, Za kulisami politiki i literatury. 1848–1896 [Behind the scenes of politics and literature, 1848–1896] (Moscow, 1991), p. 238.
22. See, for instance, A. Suvorin, Dnevnik [Diary] (Moscow, 1992), pp. 371, 374, 376–77; A. Bogdanovich, Tri poslednikh samoderzhtsa [The last three autocrats] (Moscow, 1990), pp. 104, 161, 178, 299.
23. See Novyi mir, 5 (1999), pp. 189–90.
