Index
absolutism 50
academics, 243
female 175
Adamovsky, Ezequiel 177
Addison, Hugh 33
Adelphi 201
Adprint book producers 276, 277, 282
Afanas’ev, Aleksandr 117
Afghanistan 109
agriculture, Russian 91
A Hero of Our Time, by Mikhail Lermontov 14, 105
Aivazovskii, Ivan 27
Aleksandrinskii Theatre 61
Aleksandrov, Aleksandr 111
Grigorii 307
Aleksandrovskii cannon foundry 93
Alekseev, Fedor 65
Aleksei Mikhailovich, Tsar 3
Alekseychuk, Leonid 305
Alexander Column 61
Alexandra Theatre, Liverpool 112
Allied Artists’ Association (A.A.A.) 29, 133, 134, 139, 140, 146, 147
exhibition of 1908 29, fig. 9.1
Alpha and Omega, by Jane Ellen Harrison 176-77, 186
American Indians 91
National Exhibition (Moscow, 1959) 287
Anastasius, by Thomas Hope 37, 38
Ancient Art and Ritual, by Jane Ellen Harrison 184, 186
Andreev, Leonid 31, 222, 225, 226, 227
Andrews, Nigel 304
Angelico, Beato 74
Anglicanism 73
Anglo-Russian Convention 30
Literary Society 22
Anglo-Soviet treaty (1942) 33
Anisimov, Professor Aleksandr 83, 84, 85, 86, 87
Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy 21, 30
Anrep, Boris 139
Anient and Present State of Muscovy, The, by Jodocus Crull 4
anti-Semitism 165
anti-theatricality 175
Aorists and the Classical Tripos, by Jane Ellen Harrison 186
architecture 12, 58; See also Bazhenov, Vasilii; Cameron, Charles; Quarenghi, Giacomo; Leeds, William Henry; Montferrand, August de; Pokrovskii, Vladimir; Rossi, Carlo; Russian architecture; Shchusev, Aleksei; Starov, Ivan; Voronikhin, Andrei
‘Arcos Raid’, the 33
Arcticus, pseudonym of Matthew Guthrie 6
Ariosto, Ludovico 37
Arnold, Matthew 21
Art of Holy Russia Exhibition (London, 1998) 87
Artsybashev, Mikhail 31
Art Tour to Northern Capitals of Europe, An, by Joseph Beavington Atkinson 69
Art Treasures in Soviet Russia, by Sir Martin Conway 83
Athenaeum 15, 17, 20, 72, 173, 201, 203, 207, 210, 211
Atkinson, Joseph Beavington 27, 28, 69, 72, 73, 79, 80
avant-garde movement 136, 140, 147, 175, 184, 199, 305, 307
Avvakum, Archpriest 176
Babel, Isaak 239
Baker, Ida 207
Bakunin, Mikhail 216
Ballets Russes 29, 31, 32, 133, 146, 147, 185, 244
Bal’mont, Konstantin 17
Baltic Sea 92
Baring, Maurice 31, 32, 215, 216, 217, 219, 220
BASIC (British American Scientific International Commercial) English 270
Baudrillard, Jean 253, 258, 266
Bauer, Evgenii 304
Bay of Pigs Invasion (1961) 290
Beach, Sylvia 200
Bee, The 6
Bellini, Giovanni 74
Bely, Andrei 239
Bennett, Arnold 219
Berdiaev, Nikolai 164, 232, 236
Berezovskii, Maksim 65
Bergson, Henri 175, 180, 183, 185
Wall 290
Berlin, Isaiah 283
Bestuzhev (-Marlinskii), Aleksandr 9, 10, 54
Bevignani, Enrico 111
Bezhin Meadow, by Sergei Eisenstein 304, 305, 307
Bijou Theatre, Liverpool 99
Bijou, The 60
Bilibin, Ivan 136, 138, 139, 241
biographical dictionaries 54
Birmingham 89, 98, 99, 102, 107, 112
Daily Post 107
Birth of Tragedy, The, by Friedrich Nietzsche 182
Black Cat, The, by Edgar Allan Poe 150
Blackwood’s Magazine 9, 10, 67
Blagonamerennyi 238
Bleak House, by Charles Dickens 159
Blick ins Chaos, by Hermann Hesse 235
Blok, Aleksandr 178
Bloomsbury Gallery, London 245
Boer War 30
Bolsheviks 33, 192, 207, 224, 249
Bondarchuk, Sergei 306
Book of the Bear, The, by Jane Ellen Harrison 176, 194, 195, 237
Borenius, Tancred 242
Born in Exile, by George Gissing 153, 155, 156
Borodin, Aleksandr 26
Borovikovskii, Vladimir 27
Bourne, Charlotte 13
Bowra, C. M. 232
Bowring, Sir John 8, 9, 16, 18, 53, 54, 55, 58, 67
Brahms, Johannes 129
Brereton, Captain F. S. 30
Brest 104
Brewster, Dorothy 57
Brief History of Muscovia, by John Milton 3
British and Foreign Bible Society 74
Commonwealth 269
Embassy in St Petersburg 19, 71, 76
Fair, Sokol’niki Park (Moscow, 1961) 291
Film Institute (BFI) 302, 304, 306
Foreign Office 291, 293, 296, 298, 300
Briusov, Valerii 17
Brothers Karamazov, The, by Fedor Dostoevskii 234, 235
Brown, Alec 190, 193, 195, 198, 199
Expo (1958) 291
Bubnovyi valet (Knave of Diamonds) artists’ group 143
Buchan Telfer, Commander John 19, 33
Budberg, Moura 305
Bukharin, Nikolai 232
Bulgakov, Sergei 232
Bulgaria 38
Bulgarin, Faddei 18, 61, 62, 64, 68
Bunin, Ivan Ch. 15, 32, 207, 232, 238, 239
Burns, Robert 52
Burnt by the Sun, by Nikita Mikhalkov 308
By Rocking Chair Across Russia, by Alex Atkinson and Ronald Searle 289
Byron, George Gordon, Lord Ch. 2, 10, 11, 55, 64, 65, 66, 218; and Burns, Robert 52; death 52; library 40, 43; politics 39; See also: Don Juan
Cahiers du Cinéma 306
Calderon, George 31
Caleb Williams, by William Godwin 149
Camden Society 74
University 5, 25, 32, 83, 176, 193, 195-6, 236
Cameron, Charles 12
candelabra 93
Cardiff 98
Carpenter, Edward 127
cartoonists 34, cover image
Caspian Sea 164
Castéra, Jean-Henri 40
Casti, Giambattista 43, 44, 45, 46
catalogues, of art 78, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 134, 136, 140, 146, 241, 245
cathedrals 72
Catherine the Great (Catherine II) 4, 6, 8, 11, 22, 38, 42-46, 51, 54; court of 40; in Don Juan 38-44, 46
Cellini, Benvenuto 94
Central State Restoration Workshops, The 81-85, 87
Chaikovskii, N.V. 23
circle 23
Petr See Tchaikovsky, Petr
Chamberlain, William Henry 242
Chamier, Frederick 11
Chancellor, Richard 1
Changing Russia, by Stephen Graham 163, 170, 171
Charles I 3
Charrière, Ernest 14
Chekhov, Anton Ch. 14, 30, 31, 32, 33, 190, 221, 226
Mikhail 202
Chesterton, G. K. 156, 157, 158, 159, 160, 161
children’s literature 113, 114, 119, 120
‘Child-Who-Was-Tired, The’, by Katherine Mansfield 205, 213
Christ Church College, Oxford 71
Christie, Agatha 150
Ian 304
Churchill, Clementine 34, 254, 256-65
Church Missionary Society 74
of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem 173
cinema See Soviet cinema
Clarke, Edward Daniel 54
Clock, The, by Aleksei Remizov 191, 192, 193
Cochrane, John George 55
Cold War, the 34, 287-90, 295, 298, 300
Wilkie 149
Commission for the Preservation and Identification of Monuments of Ancient Russian Painting (Narkompros), The 80, 81
Congress of Soviet Writers, First (1934) 239
Conway, Sir Martin 83, 84, 85, 86
Cooperation. See Altruism
Copenhagen 98
Cormack, Robin 87
Cornford, Francis 175
Country Life 165
Cournos, John 190-92, 195, 199, 222, 225, 237-40
Courtauld Institute of Art 83
Covent Garden 97, 98, 105, 106, 111
Crime and Punishment, by Fedor Dostoevskii Ch. 10, 20, 166
Crimean War 1, 9, 13, 17, 21, 22, 54, 68, 78, 215
crime genre Ch. 10
Criterion, The 32, 35, 225, 228, 231-38, 240
Cronstadt 6
Cruikshank, George 34, cover image
Crull, Jodocus 4
Crystal Palace 13, 26, 89, 91, 95
Palace Exhibition. See also Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations (1851)
Cuban crisis, the 35
cultural superiority (sense of) 3, 4, 54, 73, 75, 91, 102, 104, 105, 107, 109, 125, 126, 132, 134, 142
Curran, Eileen 57
Curzon, Robert, 14th Baron Zouche 74, 75, 78, 79, 85
Czechoslovakia 299
d’Agrenev, Slavianskii 105
Daily Mail, the 297
Telegraph, The 245
dance 177-79, 184-85, 187, 231-32
Dark Benediction. See Miller
Dart: The Midland Figaro 102, fig. 6.3
Darwinian evolutionary theory 125
Davydov, Denis 8
Delaveau, Hippolyte 14
Demon, by Anton Rubinstein 20, 25, 98-99, 101-02, 104, 106-09, 11-12
depression 33
Depression of 1929 33
Derzhavin, Gavrila Romanovich 6, 8, 9, 18
de Saint Maure, Emile Dupré 55
Deutsche Gesellschaft zum Studium Osteuropas 177
de Valon, Alexis 92
de Windt, Harry 23
Diagilev, Sergei 97, 134, 136, 138, 147
Dickens, Charles 14, 153, 159, 160
Dictionary of National Biography 56
Didron, Alphonse 75
Dionysios of Fourna 75
Dixon, Vladimir 197, 198, 199, 200
Dmitriev, Ivan 8
Dobuzhinskii, Mstislav 28
Dodd, Philip 302
Don Cossacks 91
Don Juan, by George Gordon Byron Ch. 2, 11, 55; commentary on Russian political ambition 39; military detail 48; political motivation 38; sex 39, 43, 44, 45; sources Ch. 2
(character) 41; visit to Russia 37, 39
Donne, John 236
Donskoi monastery 77
Dormition Cathedral, the 72, 78
Dostoevskii, Fedor 20-21, 24, 30-32, 54, 105, 149, 150-53, 155-57, 159-61, 166, 185-86, 190-91, 216-17, 219-21, 223, 232-37; See also: Brother karamazov; Crime and Punishment; crime genre; House of the Dead; Insulted and Injured, The
Duddington, N.A. 232
Earls Court Soviet Exhibitions 34
Eden, Anthony 242
Edinburgh Review, the 8
Eight and a Half, by Federico Fellini 310
Eisenstein, Sergei 301, 304-07, 309, 311
Elgar, Edward 127
Eliot, T. S. 32, 183, 191, 231, 234-38
Elizabeth I 3
Engel, Carl 106
English Musical Renaissance 99, 107
Enlightenment, the 4-5, 58, 70, 72, 73, 75, 109
Entente Powers 80
‘Epilogue on the War’, by Jane Ellen Harrison 182
Eugene Onegin, by Petr Tchaikovsky See Petr Tchaikovsky
by Aleksandr Pushkin See Pushkin, Aleksandr
Evening Express, Cardiff 102
Evstav’ev, A. G 7
Executive Committee of the War Organisation of the Red Cross and St John 254
exhibition display techniques 292, 293
Earls Court Soviet (London 1961, 1968, 1979) Ch. 20
of Russian Art (London, 1935) Ch. 17
of the Achievements of the People’s Economy of the USSR (VDNKh) 288
Fabian Society, the 279
factories 91
Falconet, Étienne Maurice 40
famine 86
Father Brown (character in G. K. Chesterton’s fiction) 156, 158-60
Faust 108; opera by Charles Gounod 108-09
Fauvism 145
February Revolution, the 30, 232, 242
Fedotov, Pavel 27
Fernandez, Ramon 237
Film Factory; Russian and Soviet Cinema in Documents 1896-1939, The, ed. Richard Taylor and Ian Christie 302, 304
Society, London 304
Financial Times 304
Five-Year Plans 271
Folketheatret, Copenhagen 112
Society, the 114
folk bards 232
Fonvizin, Denis 8
Foreign Quarterly Review 9, 17-18, 27, 55-57, 59-67
Review and Continental Miscellany 55, 59
Forster, E. M. 237
Fox-Strangways, William, 4th Earl of Ilchester 71, 72
Frankland, Captain C. Colville 10, 72, 80
Frayn, Michael 289
Frazer, James 176
Free Artists Studio, Riazan’ 243
Free Russia 24
Freud, Sigmund 235
Fry, Roger 29, 85, 133, 134, 139, 146
Fund for Russian Refugees, the 80
Gagarin, Iurii 295
Galsworthy, John 179
Garnett, Constance 20-21, 24, 30-31, 201-02, 207, 210, 221, 234
David 195
Garrick Theatre 156
Garshin, Vsevolod 19
Gates of Mystery Exhibition (London, 1992) 87
Gell, Sir William 60
‘Gentleman from San Francisco, The’, by Ivan Bunin, trans. S.S. Kotelianskii and D.H. Lawrence 222-24, 227, 228
Gentleman’s Magazine 78
George III 73
Germany 108, 109, 118, 190, 191, 205
Gesellschafts-und Wirtschaftsmuseum, Vienna 270
Gippius (Hippius), Zinaida 207
Gissing, George 152, 153, 155, 156, 160
Glasgow School 246
Glazunov, Aleksandr 26
Glinka, Mikhail 13, 25, 26, 98, 108, 111
‘God’ (‘Bog’), by Gavrila Derzhavin 8
Godwin, William 149, 153, 154, 156
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von 66, 108
Gogol, Nikolai 10, 13-15, 18-19, 24, 54, 57, 66-68, 178, 220
Goncharova, Natal’ia 244
Good Words 115
Gor’kii, Maxim 31, 164-65, 225-27, 305
Grahame, F.R. (pseudonym of Catherine Laura Johnstone) 17
Stephen Ch. 11, 30-32, 220, 224, 228
Grand Russian Opera Company. See
Russian Opera Company;
Theatre, Cardiff 112
Nottingham 112
Tour, the 5
Granville, A. B 12
Great Exhibition of the Works of
Industry of all Nations (1851) Ch. 5, 13, 89, 110; Austrian exhibit 90, 92; British dominance of 89; catalogues of 90; rejected exhibits 91; Russian exhibit 89-95; U.S.A. exhibit 89, 92
Grech, Nikolai 55
Revivalism 57
Green, Peter 308
Groethuysen, Bernard 237
Gurdjeff Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man (Fontainebleau) 207, 209
Gurian, W. 233
Guterman, Norbert 117
Guthrie, James 246
Gye, Frederick 111
Hakluyt, Richard 3
Hamburg 47
Hamlet (film), by Grigorii Kozintsev 306
Handbook for Northern Europe, ed. by Captain W. Jesse 76
Series (John Murray publishing house) 76-77, 79
Handel, George Frideric 108
Hardie, Kier 24
Harper’s Weekly 191
Harrison, Jane Ellen Ch. 12, 32, 190, 193-95, 237
John Henry 16
Harrods’ 255
Hart Davies, Thomas 20
H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) 191
Heartfield, John 277
Hebrew 190
Hendring (film company) 302
Hill, Christopher 270, 278-79, 282
Hillwood Museum, Washington D.C. 94
History of Russian Literature, with a Lexicon of Authors, trans. by George Cox from the German of Friedrich Otto 65
of the Holy Eastern Church, A, by John Mason Neale 74
Hitler, Adolf 34
Hogarth Press, The 194, 222, 224
Holewinski, Jan de 136
Homer 181
Hope, Thomas 37
Household Words 14
House of the Dead, by Fedor Dostoevskii 106
Houston, Penelope 302
How Can War Ever Be Right?, by Gilbert Murray 181
How do you do, Tovarish? See Soviets and Ourselves, The
Huddersfield 98
Hughes, Lindsey 88
Hussingtree, Martin 33
Hyde Park, London 89
icons Ch. 4, 2, 12, 71, 241-43; condition of 79-82; destruction of 86; exhibitions of 70, 81, 82-84, 87; in England 78; oklads and rizas 80, 82
Idiot, The (Idiot), by Fedor Dostoevsky, 20
Illustrated London News, The 93, 135, 156, 245, 249-50, figs. 9.1, 17.3
Il Poema Tartaro, by Giambattista Casti 43
Imagism 191
Imperial Archaeological Commission, The 79
copper works of Bogoslovskii and Perm’ 93
Opera Company, the. See Russian
Opera Company
Russian Academy, the 117
Imperial Theatre, Moscow 98
Imperial warrant 94
In a German Pension, by Katherine Mansfield 213
Industrial Trade Fairs Ltd (ITF) 291
Information Research Department (IRD), British Foreign Office 298
Institut d’Études Slaves, Paris 177
Insulted and Injured, The, by Fedor Dostoevskii 152
International Exhibition, Venice 243
invasion of Russia by Germany 33
Iraq 74
Iron Curtain Speech 262
Irving, Henry 156
Iskusstvo kino 301
Isotype (International System Of TYpographic Picture Education) 34, Ch. 19, figs. 19.1, 19.2, 19.3, 19.4, 19.5
Istrati, P. 232
Italian 25, 44, 58, 20, 212, 301, 303
opera 99, 111 See also Royal Italian Opera
Iutkevich, Sergei 305
Ivanov, Viacheslav 164, 182, 184, 187
Ivan the Terrible 1
Izostat Institute 271, 272, 273, 275
Izvestiia 272
Jacob, Max 200
James, Henry 150
Jeffries, Richard 165
Jesse, Captain W. 76
Jodrell Theatre, the 98, 101, 112, fig. 6.3
Johnstone, Catherine Laura 18, 25, 27
journalism 57, 191; English 9, 22, 54, 98, 99, 101, 109, 142, 242, 245, 283, 285, 287, 294, 295, 298, 300
Journal of the British Archaeological Association 77
journals 2, 6-8, 10, 11, 17, 20, 23, 35, 55, 56, 57, 59, 62, 77, 78, 86, 98, 115, 164, 191, 199, 225, 227, 228, 231, 235, 237, 238, 272, 277, 301, 302, 303, 304, 306
Joyce, James 191, 199, 200, 238, 239
Jülg, Bernhard 118
Kamenskii, Gavril 92
Kandinskii, Vasilii 139, 140, 142, 143, 146, 147, fig. 9.5
Karamazov, Dmitrii 235
Karamzin, Nikolai 7, 8, 9, 18, 53, 65
Kazan 104
Kaznina, Olga 189
Kheifits, Iosif 306
Khrushchev, Nikita 287
King Lear, by William Shakespeare 305, 306, 307
King, Rev. John Glen 73
Kireevskii, Ivan 174
Kislova, Lidiia 265
‘Kitchen debate’ at the American National Exhibition (Moscow, 1959) 287
Klepinin, Nicholas 86
Klingender, Francis 250
Klodt, Baron 13
Kolokol 23
Konchalovskii, Petr 140, 143, 144, 145, 146, 147, fig. 9.6
Kondakov, Nikodim Pavlovich 83, 86
König, Heinrich 66
Korolenko, Vladimir 19
Korovin, Konstantin 244
Kosmodem’ianskaia, Zoia 265
Kosygin, A.N. 35
Kotelianskii, S.S. 202-03, 206-07, 209-13, 222-23, 232, 237
Kozintsev, Grigorii 305-07, 311
Kozlovskii, Mikhail 65
Kravchinskii, Sergei 23-4, 216
Kremlin 69
Kroll, Alex 277
Kropotkin, Prince Petr 23, 24, 216
Krüdener, (Madame) Barbara von 39
Krumbigel 93
Krylov, Ivan 8, 15, 16, 18, 54, 65, 113, 115, 116
Kugel’, Aleksandr 180
Kustodiev, Boris 28
Lady with the Little Dog, The (film), by Iosif Kheifits 306, 310
Lago, Antonio 111
Landsmen and Seafarers. See Soviets and Ourselves, The
Lane, John 168
Lansdell, Rev. Henry 23
L’Anson Fausset, H. 232
Larionov, Mikhail 244
La Traviata, by Giuseppe Verdi 98, 105, 112
Lawrence, D. H. 219, 222-23, 227
Lazarev, Viktor 87
Le Crime et le Châtiment, by Victor Dérély 151
Lectures on the Eastern Church, by Arthur Penrhyn Stanley 75
Leeds, William Henry Ch. 3, 9, 10, 16, 18, 20; anonymity 56, 57; architect 57, 68; articles 61; knowledge of languages 58; literary interests 56, 58-60, 67-68; obituary 57; personality 58; translations 59-61
Left Review 33
Léger, Fernand 244
Lehrbuch der russischen Literatur, by Friedrich Otto 11
Lenin in October, by Mikhail Romm 307
Lenin, Vladimir 232, 239, 240, 242, 249, 258, 259, 291, 293
Le Queux, Walter 33
Lermontov, Mikhail 14, 19, 20, 54, 105
Leskov, Nikolai 69
Les mystères de Paris, by Eugène Sue 150
Leszczylowski, Michal 308
Levitan, Isaak 244
Levitskii, Dimitrii Grigorevich 27
Lewes gaol 78
Leyda, Jay 305
liberalism 39, 50, 115, 131, 132, 165
Library of the Fine Arts 60
Life for the Tsar, A, by Mikhail Glinka 13, 25, 98, 104, 106-08, 11-12
of Archpriest Avvakum, The, by Archpriest Avvakum 176, 194
the Empress Catharine II, by Rev. William Tooke 6, 40
Likhachev, Nikolai 79
Lissitskii, Lazar (El) 273
Literary Panorama, The 7
Literature of National Music, by Carl Engel 106
Literaturnaia gazeta 238
Literaturnyi kritik 238
Mercury 108
Lockhart, J.G 59
Sir Robert Hamilton Bruce 305
Lomonosov, Mikhail 5, 6, 8, 9, 54, 61, 65
London 3, 7, 8, 11, 13, 14, 17, 19, 20, 23, 26, 27, 29, 31, 33, 34, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 98, 99, 100, 101, 110, 112, 113, 115, 125, 133, 134, 136, 139, 140, 144, 147, 153, 164, 166, 168, 190, 192, 194, 195, 196, 216, 229, 231, 241, 243, 244, 245, 248, 249, 251, 285, 287, 291, 292
Losenko, Anton 65
Lukitch, G. 238
Macmurray, John 270, 273, 278, 279, 282, 283
Magazine of Foreign Literature Comprehending an Analysis of Celebrated Modern Publications of France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Russia, and America, with copious extracts, translated into English, The 8
Mainsprings of Russia, The, by Maurice Baring 216, 217
Maiskii, Ivan 256
Maitland-Macgill-Crichton, C. F. A.232
Maliavin, Filipp 29, Ch. 17, figs. 17.1, 17.2, 17.3
Comedy Theatre 112
Manoukhin, Ivan (physician to Katherine Mansfield) 207
Mansfield, Katherine Ch. 14, 32, 33, 179, 222; journal of 203; letters of 202-04, 206-07, 209-12, 214; notebook of 205, 208-09
Man Who Knew Too Much, The, by G. K. Chesterton 156
Who Was Thursday, The, by G. K. Chesterton 156, 159
Marker, Chris 307
‘Markheim’, by Robert Louis Stevenson 151, 152
Martos, Ivan 65
Mashkov, Il’ia 140, 143, 144, 146, 147
Maskell, Alfred 28, 78, 79, 80
Masson, Charles François Philibert 40, 41, 42, 43, 46, 51
Masterpieces of Russian Painting, exhibition (London, 1930) 71, 84, 85, 86
Matisse, Henri 244
Maude, Aylmer 30
Mauss, Marcel 253
Mazeppa, by Petr Tchaikovsky See Petr Tchaikovsky McCoy, Rebecca 13
McDiarmid, Hugh 232
Mediterranean, the 109
Medvedkin, Aleksandr 307
melancholy 128, 129, 130, 131, 132
Melville, Andrew 99
Merezhkovskii, Dmitrii 207, 232
Messenger of Europe, The 7
Methods of Restoring and Preserving Monuments of Early Russian Art, Architecture and Fine Arts Exhibition (Moscow, 1920) 81
Michell, Thomas 76
Mikhalkov, Nikita 308
Milan 98
Miles, Hamish 222
Milliner’s Shop, The (Modnaia lavka), by Ivan Krylov 8-9
Milner-Gulland, Robin 87
Milne, Tom 304
Ministry of Information, Russian Division 273, 277, 279
of the Imperial Court 91
Minns, Sir Ellis Hovell 83, 84, 85, 86
miraculous pictures. See icons
Mirrlees, Hope 176, 190, 193-95, 197-98, 237
Mirskii, Dmitrii 31, 32, 175, 183, 186, 190, 193, 195, 202, 213, 226-28, 232, 237-38
Mochulskii, K. 238
modernism 133, 134, 136, 145, 147, 175, 183, 184, 186, 189, 190, 191, 195, 199, 218, 219, 222
Moisewitsch, Benno 255
Molière (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin) 39
Molina, Tirso de 39
Molotov, Viacheslav 258
Montagu, Ivor 233, 304, 305, 311
Montesquieu (Charles-Louis de Secondat, baron de La Brède) 5
Montferrand, August de 12
Monthly Film Bulletin 306
Moore, George 149
Thomas 60
Morfill, W.R. 17
Morrell, Ottoline 211
Morris, William 24
Mortimer, Raymond 194
Moscow 1, 10, 13, 14, 21, 25, 27, 34, 35, 72, 75, 76, 78, 79, 81, 82, 93, 94, 143, 163, 242, 257, 259, 261, 265, 271, 277, 278, 285, 287, 288, 289, 296
Opera Company, The See Russian
Opera Company
Religious-Philosophical Society 164
Mother of God of Vladimir icon 69-70, 72, 75-77, 80-82, 84, 88, figs. 4.1, 4.2
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus 39
Mr. & Mrs. Brown’s Visit to London to see the Great Exhibition of All Nations. How they were astonished at its wonders, inconvenienced by the crowds, and frightened out of their wits by the Foreigners, by Thomas Onwhyn 91
Murav’eva, Ekaterina 19
John Middleton Ch. 14, 32, 37, 59, 68, 76, 193, 224, 227
Museum of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, Petrograd 178
music 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131, 132; effeminacy of 126, 127; French 108-09; Russian 1-2, 22, 25-26, 97, 105, 125, 128-32
halls 99
Musical Times, The 25, 26, 126
myth of Russia 216, 217, 218, 219, 221, 228
My Visit to Russia (Moia poezdka v SSSR), by Clementine Churchill 261
Nabokov, Vladimir 199
Napoleon Bonaparte (Napoleon I) 7, 22, 34, 52
National Film Theatre 302, 304, 307
Vigilance Association 102
nationalisation 80
nature-writing 166
Nazareth 173
Nelson, Admiral 57
neologisms 58
neo-nationalist school of art 136, 138, 140, 147
Nestorian Christianity 74
Neurath, Marie 282
Otto 34, 270-73, 275, 277-84. See also Isotype
New and General Biographical Dictionary 5
Burlington Galleries, London 241
Newmarch, Rosa 26-28, 31, 80, Ch. 8
New Olympic Theatre 25
New York 98
New York Times 173
New York World’s Fair (1939) 272
Nicholas II 18
Nijinskii, Vladislav 185
Nine Days of One Year, by Mikhail Romm 306
Nixon, Richard 287
NKVD 277
non-aggression pact 33
Northern Bee 94
Norwich Society of Artists 57
Nottingham 98
novel Ch. 10, 179, 180, 187, 191, 217, 220; English, 37, 63; Russian, 16, 17, 18, 20, 21, 24, 61, 62, 63, 105, 186, 216, 220, 221
Novgorod 79
Novikoff, Madame (Ol’ga Alekseevna Novikova) 30
Observer, The 138, 244, 245, 247, 293, 304
October Revolution, the 30, 33, 80, 86, 119, 178, 215, 216, 229, 232, 234, 240, 242
Of the Russe Commonwealth, by Giles Fletcher 3
Ogarev, Nikolai 23
Ogden, C.K. 270
Oktiabr’ 238
cross 77, fig. 4.4
Old Peter’s Russian Tales, by Arthur Ransome 114, 119
Olsuf’ev, Iurii 87
Onwhyn, Thomas 91
operettas 99
Oppenheim, Edward 33
Order of the Red Banner of Labour, the 259
Orlovskii, Aleksandr 12
Orthodox Christianity 70, 72-75, 79, 80, 83, 88, 102, 163, 173, 206
Osler of Birmingham 89
Ottoman Empire 74
Our Lady of Vladimir, ed. by Sir Ellis Hovell Minns 84
Outline of Russian Literature, by Maurice Baring 215
Padunov, Vladimir 301, 302, 306
Painter’s Manual, by Dionysios of Fourna 75
Palladio, Andrea 60
Panteleimon Monastery, Mount Athos 243
pantomimes 99
Paradzhanov, Sergei 305, 307, 308
Pares, Bernard 218
Paris 7, 27, 98, 105, 134, 135, 138, 141, 143, 144, 176, 177, 193, 194, 195, 198, 199, 204, 207, 222, 223, 243
Peace summit (1960) 290
World Fair (1900) 243
Pasternak, Boris 239
Peak, Godwin (character in Born in Exile) 153, 154, 155, 156
peasantry 74
Penjdeh crisis (1885) 109
Penny Cyclopaedia 67
Petersburg, by Andrei Bely 239
Peter the Great 1, 4, 17, 19, 22, 44, 181
Petrovich, Porfirii (character in Crime and Punishment) 155, 157, 158, 159, 160
Philadelphia 190
Philby, Kim 277
philosophy 166, 167, 168, 169, 171, 231
Picasso, Pablo 244
Picture of Petersburg, by Heinrich Storch 6
Pictures and Drawings of Russian Life Exhibition (London, 1935) 241-2, 245, 251
pilgrimage 164, 165, 169, 171, 172, 173
Pisarev, Dmitrii 174
Pittsburgh 243
Podolinskii, Andrei 59
Poe, Edgar Allan 150
Poet and the Lunatics, The, by G. K. Chesterton 156, 161
Poland 104
Poles 50
Polish literature 9
revolt (1830) 22
Polevoi, Ksenofont 65
Pokrovskii, Vladimir 138
positivism 177
Post-Impressionist Exhibition (London, 1912) 133, 139
Potemkin, Grigorii 44, 46, 47, 51
Prague 243
Spring 299
Primitive Culture, by E. B. Taylor 182
primitivism 134, 142, 144, 145, 177
Prince of Wales 94
prisoners of war 78
propaganda 285, 287, 291, 298, 300
Protestantism 73
Pulci, Luigi 37
purges 282
Pushkin, Aleksandr 9, 10, 11, 14, 17-19, 54, 56, 57, 59, 60, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68; comparison with Byron 64, 65; English translations of 56; Evgenii Onegin 14, 19, 24, 55, 64; Gypsies, The (Tsigany) 17, 18; Moor of Peter the Great, The (Arap Petra Velikogo)
19; Ruslan i Liudmila 9, 55, 63-64; Tales of Belkin, The (Povesti Belkina)
19; Queen of Spades (Pikovaia Dama) 19; reputation in England 56
Quarenghi, Giacomo 12
Quarterly Review 59
Queen’s Theatre, Liverpool 99
Radek, Karel 232
railways; construction of 76
Raizman, Iulii 307
Ralston, William 16, 17, 20, 21, 101, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121, 123
Randolph, Sir Thomas 3
Ransome, Arthur 114, 119, 120, 121, 123, 124
Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino) 78
Raskol’nikov, Rodion Romanovich (character in Crime and Punishment) 151, 152, 153, 154, 155, 156, 157, 158, 159, 160, 161
realism 153, 160, 184, 217, 220, 229, 233, 246, 250
Réau, Louis 246
Reavey, George 190, 195, 199, 200
Recording and Protection of Ancient Church Monuments, decree on 80
Aid to Russia Fund 255, 256, 257, 260, 262
Square 232
Remizov, Aleksei Ch. 13, 32, 176, 224, 226
Repin, Il’ia 243
Rerikh, Nikolai 28, 136, 138, 139, 178
restoration, art 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87
reviews, literary 55, 60, 231, 232, 235, 237, 238, 240
Revizor (The Government Inspector), by Nikolai Gogol 13
Rigby, Elizabeth 12
Rigoletto, by Giuseppe Verdi 98, 105, 112
Rimskii-Korsakov, Nikolai 26, 130, 131, 132
Rite of Spring, The, by Igor Stravinskii 178
ritual 175, 178, 179, 182, 186, 187
Roberts, Michael 232
Robinson, David 304, 305, 309, 311
Romanov, Panteleimon 232
Rossi, Carlo 12
Rossiiskaia antologiia: Specimens of the Russian Poets, by Sir John Bowring 8
Roud, Richard 304
Royal Academy of Arts 57
Lady’s Magazine, and Archives of the Court of St. James’s 60
Opera House, the 97
Rubinstein, Anton 25, 98, 104, 106, 107, 108, 109, 111
Ruskin Galleries, the 244
Russia and the Russians, by Harold Williams 191
the Russian Verb, by Jane Ellen Harrison 186
Russian Archaeological Society, The 79
architecture 12, 27, 56, 58-9, 60-1, 65, 67, 76, 93, 138, 235, 295, 310
art Ch. 9, Ch. 17, 1, 2, 12-13, 27-29, 56, 60, 65, 69, 73, 76, 78-81, 86, 91, 93, 95, 106, 179, 231
Art and Art Objects in Russia, by Alfred Maskell 78
Art Exhibition (Bloomsbury Gallery, London, 1930) 245
Ballet, The, by Ellen Terry 185
Cathedral, Jerusalem 173
émigrés 86, 87, 189, 190, 193, 195, 202, 207, 226, 228, 238, 243, 244, 250, 277
Fever 1
Folk Tales, by William Ralston 116
Geographical Society 117
‘Icon-Painting from a Western-European Point of View’, by Roger Fry 85
Icon, The, by Nikodim Pavlovich Kondakov 84
identity 75, 127, 131, 132, 288
Ikon Exhibition (Victoria and Albert Exhibition, 1929) 81, 82, 85, 87
Imperial Commission 90
landscape 220
language 4, 5, 8, 11, 21, 35, 58, 114, 115, 166, 175, 176, 180, 181, 182, 186, 187, 190, 209
literature 1, 2, 5-12, 14-15, 17, 22-24, 32, 35, 53-54, 56, 59, 61-63, 65, 66-68, 113-16, 176, 184-85, 189, 215-17, 219, 220-21, 226, 228, 231-32, 238-39
Library, series established by Stefan Schimanski 195
manners and morals 41, 43, 44, 216, 217
Messenger, the 69
National Opera Company, the. See
Russian Opera Company
Opera Company 97-107, 109, fig. 6.1
Shop, The (Holborn, London) 296, 299
Russification 104
Russophobia 22, 23, 92, 132, 270
Russo-Turkish war (1877-78) 109
Rutter, Frank 134, 135, 136, 138, 139, 140, 142, 143, 144, 146
saisons russes 97
Salon d’Automne 134, 136, 138, 243
des Indépendants 134, 143, 243
Saltykov-Shchedrin, Mikhail 19
Sand, George 216
Saturday Review, the 20
Saville, George 101
Ignatii 94, fig. 5.1
Pavel 94
Schiff, Sydney 211
Schimanski, Stefan 190, 195, 196, 197, 199
School of Slavonic Studies 32, 177
Scott, Beatrice 190, 195, 196, 197, 199
Scythians and Greeks, by Sir Ellis Hovell Minns 83
‘Sealed Angel, The’, (‘Zapechatlennyi angel’), by Nikolai Leskov 69
Secret Memoirs of the Court of St. Petersburg, by Charles François Philibert Masson 40
Selver, Peter 221
Shakespeare, William 3, 7, 236
Shaw, Thomas Budge 9, 10, 18, 63, 67
Shchusev, Aleksei 138
Shekhtel, Fedor 29
Shestov, Lev 176, 190, 193, 194, 197, 201, 232
Shilovskii, Konstantin 25
Shklovskii, Viktor 184
Sholokhov, Mikhail 239
show trials 282
Siberia 14, 21, 22, 23, 105, 155
Sight and Sound 35, 302, 303, 305, 306, 308, 309, 310, 312
Silver Dove, by Andrei Bely 239
Simmel, George 256
‘Sketches at the Russian Opera’ 103, fig.6.3
Slade, Admiral Adolphus 11
Professorship of Fine Art 83
Slavonic and East European Review 86, 229
Slavophile movemement 79
sleighs 93
Smirnov, Ivan Iakovlevich 55
Smith, Logon Pearsall 194
Pamela Colman 185
Smollett, Peter 270, 273, 277, 278, 279, 280, 282
Society for Cultural Relations with the U.S.S.R 273
for the Advancement of Slavonic Study 177
for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge 67
of British Artists 57
of Early Russian Art, The 79
of Friends of Russian Freedom 24
of Lovers of Religious Education, the 79
Solntsev, Fedor 94
Sologub, Fedor 164
Songs of the Russian People as Illustrative of Slavonic Mythology and Russian Social Life, The, by William Ralston 116
Sorapure, Dr (physician to Katherine Mansfield) 206, 209
Sosnina, Olga 258
Soul of Russia, The, ed. by Winifred Stephens 80
South Kensington Museum (later Victoria and Albert Museum) 28, 78
Exhibition of Russian Art and Art Objects, A (1884) 106
Soviet cinema 1, 35, 232, 259, 296, Ch. 21
consumer goods 289, 294, 295, 299
‘dreamworlds’ 286, 287, 292, 294, 298, 300
Embassy, London 254
film Ch. 21, 35
government 29, 80, 86, 242, 249
ideology 80
Industrial Exhibitions (Earls Court, London, 1961, 1968, 1979) Ch. 20
National Exhibition (New York, 1959)
Soviets and Ourselves, The 269, 270, 271, 272, 273, 275, 276, 277, 278, 284;
I: Landsmen and Seafarers 269, 275, 276, 280;
II Two Commonwealths 269, 277, 281, 282, 283;
III How do you do, Tovarish? 269, 273, 281, 283
television 312
Union, the 1, 33-35, 232, 242, 256, 260, 26-66, 269-72, 275, 278-82, 284-90, 299-300, 302-04, 312
‘way of life’ 285-87, 294, 298-300
space race 295
technology 285, 293-95, 299, 300
Spanish Civil War 33
Spalding, Lt-Colonel Henry 19
Sparrow Simpson, William 77, 78
Spence Watson, Robert 24
spirituality 164, 166, 167, 172, 173, 174, 176, 177
Spoiled Boy, The (Nedorosl’), by Denis Fonvizin 8
Ssorin-Chaikov, Nikolai 258, 263
Stalin, Iosef 34, 87, 231, 239, 242, 250, 257, 258, 259, 263, 264, 266, 282, 288
Stalinism 48
Stanley, Arthur Penrhyn, Dean of Westminster 75
Starov, Ivan 65
Star, The 102
State Historical Museum, Moscow 81
Russian Museum 79
Stead, William Thomas 30
Stephens, Alexander Condie 20
Winifred 80
Stepniak, pseudonym of Sergei Kravchinskii 24, 30, 216
‘Steppe, The’, by Anton Chekhov 213
Stevenson, Robert Louis 150, 151, 152, 155, 160
St Isaac’s Cathedral 61
St Michael Cathedral 78
St Nicholas icon, 71, fig. 4.3
Storch, Heinrich 6
Storr, Francis 20
St Petersburg 5, 6, 8, 10, 11, 12, 16, 17, 19, 27, 33, 38, 39, 40, 47, 61, 71, 73, 76, 79, 82, 92, 94, 152
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, The, by Robert Louis Stevenson 151, 152, 160
Stravinskii, Igor 178
Stroganov family 79
school 69
Struve, Gleb 56, 57, 67, 222, 229
Studies in Russian Literature, by Charles Turner 17
Sue, Eugène 149
Sumarokov, Aleksandr 5, 6, 7, 8, 54, 65
Sutherland Edwards, H. 16, 18, 20, 25
Suvchinskii, Petr 237
Suvorov, Aleksandr 37, 38, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52; in Don Juan 48, 49, 51
Symonds, John Addington 150
Taine, Hippolyte 216
Talashkino artists’ colony 135, 136, 138, 147
Talbot Rice, David 87
Tamara 87
Tarkovskii, Andrei 301, 305, 306, 307, 308, 310, 311
Tasso, Torquato 37
Taylorian Institution, University of Oxford 116
Tchaikovsky, Petr 24, 25, 26, 98, 108, 111, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131, 132; Eugene Onegin 25-26, 111; Francesca da Rimini 129; homosexuality 126, 132; Mazeppa, 25, 26, 98, 104, 108, 111, 112; Sixth Symphony (Pathétique) 125, 126, 128, 129, 131; The Tempest 129
Tell-Tale Heart, The, by Edgar Allan Poe 150
Tenisheva, Princess Mariia 134, 135, 136, 138, 139, 140, 146, 147, figs. 9.2, 9.3
Tennyson, Alfred Lord 218
Terry, Ellen 185
Tey, Joseph 150
Thaw 34, 287, 294, 302, 303, 307, 310
Theatre Royal, Huddersfield 112
Themis: A Study of the Social Origins of Greek Religion, by Jane Ellen Harrison 183, 186
Theosophy 170
Thompson, Edward Pett 72
Times, The 93, 97, 99, 105, 106, 163, 222-24, 225, 242, 245, 246, 247, 250, 296, 297, 298, 304
Literary Supplement, The (TLS) 207-08, 222-25, 242, 278, 283, 284
Tolstoi, Count Aleksei 19
Leo 20, 21, 24, 30, 54, 153, 156, 189-91, 216-17, 219-21, 223
Tolstoy, George 19
Tooke, Rev. William 6, 40-42, 46-47, 54
touring opera 99
Trade agreement, Anglo-Soviet (1959) 291
tramping 163, 164, 168, 169, 170, 172
Tramp’s Sketches, A, by Stephen Graham 168, 169, 170, 171, 173
translation Ch. 7, Ch. 13, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 24, 26, 30, 31, 55, 56, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 65, 66, 67, 68, 75, 83, 84, 86, 87, 150, 152, 156, 164, 176, 202, 203, 207, 212, 220, 221, 222, 234, 238
Translations from Poushkin, in Memory of the Hundredth Anniversary of the Poet’s Birthday, by Charles Turner 17
travel 2, 4, 5, 10, 11, 23, 76, 77, 89, 91, 164, 165, 168, 171, 173, 288, 289
Travels in Poland, Russia, Sweden, and Denmark, by Rev. William Coxe 5
Tret’iakov, Pavel 79
Trinity-Sergei monastery 79
Trotskii, Leon 249-50, fig. 17.3
Tsarskoe Selo Lyceum 9
Tsivian, Iurii 304
Tsvetaeva, Marina 238
TU 144 Soviet supersonic airliner (Concordski) 296
Turgenev, Ivan 14, 16, 18-20, 23-5, 30, 32, 54, 113, 115, 189, 216, 219, 220
Two Commonwealths. See Soviets and Ourselves, The
Ukraine 104
Ulysses, by James Joyce 238, 239
Undiscovered Russia, by Stephen Graham 163, 167
Union of Film Makers of the USSR 302, 307; Fifth Congress of (May 1986) 302, 309
United States, the 82
Urquhart, David 22
Ushakov, Semen 79
USSR at Earls Court’ exhibition (1968), 286, 298-99, fig. 20.1
Vagabond in the Caucasus, A, by Stephen Graham 163, 164
vaudevilles 99
Vel’tman, Aleksandr 63
Venetsianov, Aleksei 27
Versty 237
Viazemskii, Petr 8
Victoria and Albert Museum 28, 70, 78, 82, 83, 84, 87, 285, figs. 4.5, 4.6
Victoria Theatre, Berlin 112
Vienna 82, 98, 270, 271, 273, 278
View of the Russian Empire, by Rev. William Tooke 40
Vishnevskaia, E. 232
Visits to Monasteries in the Levant, by Robert Curzon 75, 76
vitalism 176
Vogüé, Eugène-Melchior de 216, 217, 220
VOKS (Vsesoiuznoe obshchestvo kul’turnykh sviazei s zagranitsei; Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries) 265
Volga region 86
Volkhovskii, Feliks 23
Volkonskaia, Zinaida 61
von Traubenberg, Baron Rausch 138
Voronikhin, Andrey 67
Vorticism 147
Voynich, Ethel 24
Vybrannye mesta iz perepiski s druz’iami (Selected Passages from a Correspondence with Friends), by Nikolai Gogol 14
Wagner, Wilhelm Richard 108
War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy 21, 30 (film), by Sergei Bondarchuk 306
Waste Land, The, by T. S. Eliot 234, 238
Way of Martha and the Way of Mary, by Stephen Graham 220
Webb, Beatrice 233
Wellesley Index of Victorian Periodicals 56
Wells, H. G. 305
Wernher, Herbert Zia 241
Westminster Review 9, 53, 56, 66, 67
Whatley, Thomas Denman 76
Whishaw, Frederick 21, 150, 156
Whitechapel murders 102
Wilde, Oscar 23
Wisdom of God, a Brief Summary of Sophiology, The, by Sergei Bulgakov 232
With Poor Immigrants to America, by Stephen Graham 173
With the Russian Pilgrims to Jerusalem, by Stephen Graham 171, 172, 173
Virginia 175, 183, 189, 211, 218, 222, 227, 232
World’s Fair Exhibition. See Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations (1851)
World War I 16, 17, 30, 33, 80, 119, 165, 177, 234
World War II 33, 141, 190, 270, 288
Yiddish 190
Zhemchuzhina, Polina 258
Zinov’ev letter, the 33
Znosko-Borovskii, E. A. 238