7. I. E. Repin, Dalekoe blizkoe [Far and near] (Leningrad, 1982), p. 293.
8. Pobedonostsev i ego korrespondenty, vol. 2, pp. 498–99.
9. Repin, p. 152.
10. Ibid., p. 185.
11. Vasilii Ivanovich Surikov, Pis’ma. Vospominaniia o khudozhnike [Letters, memoirs] (Leningrad, 1977), p. 187; Maksimilian Voloshin, Liki tvorchestva [The faces of creativity] (Leningrad, 1988), p. 343.
12. Quoted from V. Lakshin, Aleksandr Nikolaevich Ostrovskii [Alexander Nikolaevich Ostrovsky] (Moscow, 1976), p. 504.
13. Quoted from A. Orlova, Trudy i dni M. P. Musorgskogo. Letopis’ zhizni i tvorchestva [Works and days of M. P. Mussorgsky: Chronicle of his life and work] (Moscow, 1963), p. 360.
14. Modest Petrovich Musorgskii, Pis’ma, biograficheskie materialy i dokumenty [Letters, biographical materials, and documents] (Moscow, 1971), p. 176.
15. Quoted from A. Gozenpud, Russkii operny teatr XIX veka. 1873–1889 [Russian opera of the nineteenth century, 1873–1889] (Leningrad, 1973), p. 107.
16. Surikov, Pis’ma. Vospominaniia, p. 187.
17. Quoted from A. Gozenpud, Russkii operny teatr na rubezhe XIX-XX vekov i F. I. Shaliapin. 1890–1904 [Russian opera at the turn of the twentieth century and F. I. Chaliapin, 1890–1904] (Leningrad, 1974), p. 28.
18. Benua, Moi vospominaniia, vols. 1–3, p. 650.
CHAPTER 14
Nicholas II and Lenin as Art Connoisseurs
1. See, for instance, M. K. Kasvinov, Dvadtsat’ tri stupeni vniz [Twenty-three steps down] (Moscow, 1978), pp. 82, 128.
2. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Publitsistika [Essays on society and politics], in three volumes, vol. 3 (Yaroslavl, 1997), p. 332.
3. Teatr,12 (1992), p. 127.
4. Quoted from the collection V. I. Lenin o literature [V. I. Lenin on literature] (Moscow, 1971), p. 226.
5. Quoted from Literaturnoe nasledstvo [Literary heritage], vol. 65 (Moscow, 1958), p. 210.
6. A. V. Lunacharskii, Vospominaniia i vpechatleniia [Memoirs and impressions] (Moscow, 1969), p. 195.
7. Quoted from S. K. Bogoiavlenskii, Moskovskii teatr pri tsariakh Aleksee i Petre [Muscovite theater under Tsars Alexis and Peter] (Moscow, 1914), p. 19.
8. Matil’da Kshesinskaia, Vospominaniia [Memoirs] (Moscow, 1992), p. 29.
9. Ibid., p. 48.
10. Nicholas II, Dnevniki [Journals] (Moscow, 2007), p. 13.
11. M. Gor’kii, Literaturnye portrety [Literary portraits] (Moscow, 1983), p. 40.
12. George Balanchine, in conversation with the author.
13. Gor’kii, p. 37.
14. Quoted from Lev Tolstoi i muzyka. Khronika. Notografiia. Bibliografiia [Leo Tolstoy and music: Chronicle, bibliography of musical scores, bibliography] (Moscow, 1977), p. 22.
15. Quoted from A. G. Latyshev, Rassekrechennyi Lenin [Lenin declassified] (Moscow, 1996), p. 291.
16. V. I. Lenin o literature [V. I. Lenin on literature] (Moscow, 1971), p. 254.
17. Maria Dobrowen, in conversation with the author.
18. Quoted from the collection Prometei [Prometheus], vol.8 (Moscow, 1971), p. 61.
19. See L. Freidkina, Dni i gody V. I. Nemirovicha-Danchenko [Life of V. I. Nemirovich-Danchenko] (Moscow, 1962), p. 219; I. Solov’eva, Nemirovich-Danchenko [Nemirovich-Danchenko] (Moscow, 1979), pp. 211–12.
20. Quotes from Simon Dreiden, Spektakli. Roli. Sud’by [Plays, roles, and destinies] (Moscow, 1978), p. 22.
21. Quoted from M. N. Stroeva, Rezhisserskie iskaniia Stanislavskogo. 1898–1917 [Directorial pursuits of Stanislavsky, 1898–1917] (Moscow, 1973), p. 304.
22. Quoted from Literaturnoe nasledstvo [Literary heritage], vol. 72 (Moscow, 1965), p. 539.
23. Lenin o literature, p. 263.
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