24. Quoted from K. K. Rotikov, Drugoi Peterburg [The other Petersburg] (St. Petersburg, 1998), p. 407.
25. Novyi mir, 5 (1999), p. 189.
26. Quoted from Neizvestnyi Chaikovskii [The unknown Tchaikovsky] (Moscow, 2009), p. 19.
27. Chaikovskii, Al’manakh, part 1, p. 123.
28. Ibid.
29. See Truman Bullard, “Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin: Tatiana and Lensky, the Third Couple,” in Tchaikovsky and His Contemporaries: A Centennial Symposium (Westport, Conn., and London, 1999), pp. 157–66.
30. George Balanchine, in conversation with the author.
31. Igor’ Glebov (Boris Asaf’ev), Chaikovskii: Opyt kharakteristiki [Tchaikovsky: Essay of a characterization] (St. Petersburg and Berlin, 1923), p. 45.
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Dostoevsky and the Romanovs
1. P. Chaikovskii, Polnoe sobranie sochinenii. Literaturnye proizvedeniia i perepiska [Complete collected works: Literary works and correspondence], vol. 5 (Moscow, 1959), pp. 106–07.
2. Zapiski P. A. Cherevina [Memoirs of P. A. Cherevin] (Kostroma, 1918), pp. 4–5.
3. Aleksandr Vasil’evich Nikitenko, Zapiski i dnevnik [Notes and journal], in three volumes, vol. 2 (Moscow, 2004), pp. 244-45.
4. Ibid., pp. 302, 304.
5. Prince Meshcherskii, Vospominaniia [Memoirs] (Moscow, 2001), p. 307.
6. Quoted from Igor’Volgin, Koleblias’ nad bezdnoi: Dostoevskii i russkii imperatorskii dom [Hovering over the abyss: Dostoevsky and the Russian imperial house] (Moscow, 1998), pp. 271–72.
7. A. G. Dostoevskaia, Vospominaniia [Memoirs] (Moscow, 1971], p. 326.
8. Quoted from Volgin, p. 302.
9. Literaturnoe nasledstvo [Literary heritage], vol. 86 (Moscow, 1973), p. 135.
10. Ibid., p. 136.
11. Dostoevskaia, p. 327.
12. See, for instance, Novyi mir, 5 (1999), pp. 195–215.
13. F. M. Dostoevskii and A. G. Dostoevskaia, Perepiska [Correspondence] (Leningrad, 1976), p. 293.
14. Ibid., pp. 285, 291.
15. See Sredi velikikh: Literaturnye vstrechi [Among the greats: Literary encounters] (Moscow, 2001), pp. 355–57.
16. Perepiska I. S. Turgeneva [Correspondence of I. S. Turgenev], in two volumes, vol. 2 (Moscow, 1986), p. 305.
17. Ibid., p. 294.
18. Quoted from Igor’ Volgin, Poslednii god Dostoevskogo [Dostoevsky’s last year] (Moscow, 1986), p. 486.
19. Quoted from Konstantin Petrovich Pobedonostsev i ego korrespondenty [Konstantin Petrovich Pobedonostsev and his correspondents], in two volumes, vol. 1 (Minsk, 2003), p. 34.
20. Quoted from Volgin, Poslednii god Dostoevskogo, p. 487.
21. Quoted from B. Bursov, Lichnost’ Dostoevskogo [Dostoevsky the person] (Leningrad, 1974), p. 131.
22. Quoted from K. P. Pobedonostsev, Velikaia lozh’ nashego vremeni [The big lie of our time] (Moscow, 1993), p. 340.
CHAPTER 13
Alexander III, the Wanderers, and Mussorgsky
1. Aleksandr Benua, Moi vospominaniia [My memoirs], in five volumes, vols. 1–3 (Moscow, 1980), p. 382.
2. Quoted from Lev Tolstoi i russkie tsari [Leo Tolstoy and the Russian tsars] (Moscow, 1995), p. 23.
3. Quoted from Aleksei Zverev and Vladimir Tunimanov, Lev Tolstoi [Leo Tolstoy] (Moscow, 2007), p. 359.
4. Quoted from Iu. B. Solov’ev, Samoderzhavie i dvorianstvo v kontse XIX veka [Autocracy and nobility in the late nineteenth century] (Leningrad, 1973), p. 90.
5. Ibid.
6. Konstantin Petrovich Pobedonostsev i ego korrespondenty [Konstantin Petrovich Pobedonostsev and his correspondents], in two volumes, vol. 1 (Minsk, 2003), p. 246.
