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. Théodule-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.
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.
CHAPTER 12
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.
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.