The Wives: The Women Behind Russia's Literary Giants (53 page)

Khazina, Nadezhda Yakovlevna,
113–15.
See also
Mandelstam, Nadezhda

Khlebnikov, Velimir,
121

Khodasevich, Vladislav,
180

Khrushchev, Nikita,
157
,
247

Khrushchev’s Thaw,
157
,
159
,
170
,
246–47
,
252

King, Queen, Knave
,
182

Kingdom of God Is Within Us, The
,
98

Kirov, Sergei,
222–23

Kolyma Tales
,
169

Koni, Anatoly,
111

Konsky, Grisha,
233–34

Kopelev, Lev,
262

Korvin-Krukovskaya, Anna,
7
,
9
,
11
,
47

Kovalevskaya, Sofia,
7

Kovrigina, Zinaida,
58

Kramskoy, Ivan,
76–77
,
105

Kretova, Olga,
145

Kreutzer Sonata, The
,
93–95
,
100
,
102
,
195

Kurdyumov, Valery,
260–61

L

Lacontre, Robert,
269

Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
,
230

Lakshin, Vladimir,
246
,
247
,
248

Lamont, William,
194

Lashkova, Vera,
173

Lawrence, D. H.,
287

Le Figaro
,
269

Lélia, the Life of George Sand
,
247

Lenin, Vladimir,
114
,
124
,
177
,
280

Leningrad
,
156

Leuthold, Dorothy,
190

Lev Tolstoy and His Wife
,
112

Life for the Czar, A
,
236

“Life of a Great Sinner, The,”
32

Literary Gazette
,
133
,
142
,
245

literary wives,
x–xix
,
285
See also specific wives

Litovsky,
230

Little Dorrit
,
25

“Lives of the Great,”
218

Lolita
,
194–201
,
203
,
205

Lugovskoy, Vladimir,
244

Luzhkov, Yuri,
280

M

Macdonald, Dwight,
199

Maikov, Apollon,
24–25
,
32

Makovitsky, Dushan,
105

Mandelstam, Nadezhda,
113–74

birth of,
113–14

death of,
173

early years of,
114–21

education of,
115
,
156

exile of,
138–39

family of,
114–15
,
120–21

homelessness of,
120–23
,
131
,
148–49
,
165

later years of,
152–74

marriage of,
120–21

on Nabokov,
195

name of,
vii
,

preserving poetry,
113

role of,
xv–xvii
,

Solzhenitsyn and,
170
,
285

Mandelstam, Osip,
116–74

death of,
152–53

early years of,
117–21

exile of,
138–39

family of,
117

final days of,
152–56

homelessness of,
120–23
,
131
,
148–49

later years of,
150–56

marriage of,
120–21

wife of,
xv–xvii
,
113–74

“Marriage of a Novelist,”
12

Marx, Alfred,
55

Mary
,
181

Mass, Vladimir,
220

Master and Margarita, The
,
xvi
,
209
,
211–14
,
217
,
219–20
,
225
,
230
,
233–36
,
239
,
241–47
,
249

Maude, Aylmer,
92
,
95

Maupassant, Guy de,
143

Maurois, André,
247

Mayakovsky,
128
, 168
211
,
214

Mazzini, Giuseppe,
103

Men, Alexander,
172

Meyerhold, Vsevolod,
225
,
239
,
288

Midnight in Moscow
,
173

Mikhailovna, Vera,
51

Miller, Arthur,
258

Miltopeus, Maria Anna,
2

Milyukov, Paul,
180

Misérables, Les
,
39

Molière,
213
,
216
,
218
,
238

Molière
,
224
,
228
,
229
,
230

Molotov, Vyacheslav,
130
,
214
,
229

Moravia, Alberto,
258

Moscow Gazette, The
,
76
,
247

Moskva
,
164

Murillo,
19

Muromtseva, Vera,
288–89

N

Nabokov, Dmitry,
184
,
186–87
,
193
,
196
,
202

Nabokov, Véra,
175–206

birth of,
176

children of,
184
,
186–87

death of,
206

early years of,
175–80

education of,
178

family of,
175–76

later years of, 200

Mandelstam and,
124
,
171

marriage of,
180–81

name of,
vii
,

role of,
x–xi
,
xvi–xviii

Nabokov, Vladimir,
179–206

children of,
184
,
186–87

death of,
205

early years of,
175–80

later years of, 200

Mandelstam and,
124
,
171

marriage of,
180–81

meeting,
179

Solzhenitsyn and,
272

wife of,
x–xi
,
xvi–xviii
,
175–206

Nabokov, Vladimir, Sr.,
179–80

Narbut, Vladimir,
116

Naryshkin-Kurakina, Elizabeth,
48

“Natasha,”
65

Nechaev, Sergei,
33

Neelov, Yuri,
209

Nekrasov, Nikolai,
40–41
,
45

Nemirovich-Danchenko, Vladimir,
56
,
208
,
222
,
231
,
238–39

Nevsky, Alexander,
1–2
,
45
,
52
,
60

New Time
,
95

New York Review of Books, The
,
171
,
188
,
199–200

New York Times, The
,
206
,
262
,
279

New Yorker, The,
197
,
199

Nicholson, Nigel,
201

Nirenberg, Shmul-Yankel,
207

Nixon, Richard,
263

Noise of Time, The
,
123

Notes from the House of the Dead
,
3
,
11
, 38

Notes of a Dead Man, The
,
231

Notes of the Fatherland
,
40

Novy Mir
,
164
,
246–47
,
252
,
258
,
276
,
279

Nurenberg, Alexander,
208
,
248

Nurenberg, Elena,
207–8.
See also
Bulgakov, Elena

Nurenberg, Olga,
208
,
236–37

Nurenberg, Sergei Markovich,
207

O

Oak and the Calf, The
,
273

Observer, The
,
206

“Ode to Stalin,”
146

Olkhin, Pavel,
4–5
,
20

On Human Duty
,
103

On Life
,
99

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
,
xvii
,
245
,
252–53
,
272

Osmerkina, Tatyana,
172

P

Pale Fire
,
205

Panina, Sophia,
103

Pasternak, Boris,
xii
,
123–24
,
127
,
137
,
140
,
143
,
157
,
169
,
199–200
,
214
,
227
,
257
,
276

Pasternak, Elena,
276

Pasternak, Evgeny,
276

“Path of Betrayal, The,”
266

perestroika,
278–79
,
283

Peter the Great,
75
,
142
,
231
,
233
,
280

Pickwick Papers, The
,
222
,
233

Pilnyak, Boris,
234

Pirogova, Anna,
75

Pnin
,
197

Pobedonostsev, Konstantin,
48
,
90

Poe, Edgar Allan,
180

Poet and Peasant
,
20

Polikushka
,
68
,
112

Polner, Tikhon,
112

Poor Folk
,
32

Poskrebyshev, Alexander,
244

Possessed, The
,
32
,
33
,
34
,
36

Pravda
,
128
,
134
,
228
,
230
,
233
,
266

Proffer, Carl,
125
, 168
171
,
195
,
202

Proffer, Ellendea, 168
171
,
202

Prokofiev, Sergei,
57
,
228

Punin, Nikolai,
124
,
151
,
227

Pushkin
,
229
,
232

Pushkin, Alexander,
196
,
223–24
,
228–29
,
231–32
,
244

Pushkin, Natalya,
224

Putin, Vladimir,
283–84

R

Rachmaninov, Sergei,
188

Rafael,
19

Raw Youth, A
,
40–42

Real Life of Sebastian Knight, The
,
188

Realm of Darkness, The
,
93

Red Wheel, The
,
258
,
261
,
269
,
275–76
,
279

Reich, Zinaida,
225
,
239

Rembrandt,
19

Rembrandt and His Wife
,
19

Reminiscences
,
56

Repin, Ilya,
105

Requiem,
151

Reshetovskaya, Natalya,
256
,
259
,
262
,
264

Resurrection
,
101
,
102

Rolf, Filippa, 200
203

Romanov, Konstantin,
125
,
138

Roosevelt, Franklin D.,
224
,
274

Rosanov, Vasily,
55–56

Rostropovich, Mstislav,
258–62
,
277

Rozanova, Maria,
170

Rubinstein, Nikolai,
63

Rul
,
179
,
180

Russia in the Abyss
,
282

Russian Gazette
,
95
,
96
,
98

Russian Herald, The
,
12
,
13
,
25–26
,
28
,
31
,
46
,
50
,
71
,
79
,
80

Russian Reader
,
74

S

Sabatier, Paul,
99

Sakharov, Andrei,
268
,
278
,
284

Sartre, Jean-Paul,
258

Saryan, Martiros,
131

Scammell, Michael,
277

Sebastopol Stories
,
62

Second Book, The
,
121–22

Shakespeare, William,
61
,
148

Shalamov, Varlam,
169

Shalyapin, Fyodor,
209

Shileiko, Vladimir,
125

Shilovsky, Evgeny,
209–10
,
214–15
,
217
,
233

Shklovsky, Vasilisa,
124
,
134
,
148
,
161

Shklovsky, Victor,
124
,
148

Shmemann, Alexander,
273

Shostakovich, Dmitry,
228
,
229
,
230

Shteiger, Boris,
225–26

Silence
,
180

Simonov, Konstantin,
166
,
245
,
247

Sinyavsky, Andrei,
170

Sistine Madonna
,
18

Slezkin, Yuri,
144

Slonim, Evsey Lazarevich,
175–78

Slonim, Véra,
175–80.
See also
Nabokov, Véra

Smith, Hedrick,
262

Snegirev, Vladimir,
106

Snitkin, Anna, 1.
See also
Dostoevsky, Anna

Snitkin, Grigory Ivanovich,
2–3

Snitkin, Ivan,
32–33

Sollogub, Vladimir,
70