Annenski, Innokenti Fedorovich, 190, 236, 239
"Apartment, The" (Mandelstam), 85,120 "good mate" theme in, 177 as rejoinder to Pasternak, 150 Apollon (journal), 175, 177 M.'s early works published in, xi-xii, 262
Ariosto, Ludovico, 239
M.'s poem about, 249, 271 Arkhangelski (criminal), 393 "Armed with the Sight of Narrow Wasps" (Mandelstam), 200 Armenia, journey to, 101, 250-51 German poetry linked to, 227-28 official arrangement of, 113, 117, 180, 250
"Armenian" poetry cycle (Mandelstam), 190, 193
Aseyev, Nikolai Nikolayevich, 200, 303-4
Assyrian culture, 256-57
Averbakh, Leopold Leopoldovich, 164-
165,172,178Я, 233 Awakum, Archpriest, 57, 241
Babel, Isaac Emanuilovich, 6, 306, 320-22 rehabilitation of, 374 unbridled curiosity of, 321-22 Bagritski, Lida, 27-28 Bagritski, Vsevolod Eduardovich (Seva), 274
Bakh, Alexei Nikolayevich, 231 Balloons (Mandelstam), 138 Balmont, Konstantin Dmitrievich, 237 Baltrushaitis, Yurgis Kazimirovich, 27 Baratynski, Evgeni Abramovich, 238, 288 Barbier, Henri Auguste, 170, 177, 239 Bedny, Demian, 25-27, 160
in disgrace with Stalin, 26 Belinski, Vissarion Grigorievich, 309 Bely, Andrei, 12, 66, 155-57 luminous quality of, 155 M.'s poem to, 230 Berdiayev, Nikolai Alexandrovich, 109, 143, 221 contrasted to M., 263-68
as Emigre, 240, 266 Bernstein, Alexander (Sania), 350 Bernstein, Sergei Ignatievich, 276, 350 Bezymenski, Alexander Ilyich, 90-9», 324-25
"Black Earth" (Mandelstam), 272 Blagoi, Dmitri Dmitrievich, 149 Bliumkin, Yakov Grigorievich, vii, 101-9
as M.'s sworn enemy, 101-7 Blok, Alexander Alexandrovich, 265, 267 on civilization, 249, 254 on end of Russian culture, 329 Blok, Georgi Petrovich, 111 Bolshevik (periodical), 139, 258-59 Bolsheviks,/бя, 108, no arrest of former, 309-10 non-Party, 168, 311-12 poets protected by, 154 Borodayevski, Valerian В., 237 Borodin, Sergei Petrovich (Amir Sargi-
dzhan), 90 "Bride of Corinth" (Goethe), 73 Brik, Osip Maximovich, 172-73 Briusov, Valeri Yakovlevich, 154-55 critique of, 226 in poetry anthology, 237 as Symbolist, 263 Brodski, David Grigorievich, 4, 91
as police agent, 6 Brodski, Joseph Alexandrovich, 333 Bruni, Lev Alexandrovich, 299, 319-20 Bruni, Nadia, 319-20 Bruni, Nikolai, 319 "Bublik" (ex-convict), 221-24 Bukharin, Nikolai lvanovich, 25, 82, 112- 118, 136, 180 as editor, 138
his letter to Stalin, 112, 145, 388 loss of his influence, 113, 222 on M.'s first arrest, 21-22 petitions to, 113-18 travel permission secured by, 250-52 Bulgakov, Elena Sergeyevna, 39 Bulgakov, Mikhail Afanasievich, 39 Butyrki prison, 372-73» 39*
"Canzona" (Mandelstam), 179 Central Committee, 179, 258, 261, 323-24, 376
posthumous letter to, 276 writer's letter to, 166 Chaadayev, Peter Yakovlevich, 240
M.'s article about, 247, 252, 255 Charents, Egishe, 190-91 Chechanovski, Mark Osipovich, 235, 247
advice from, 159, 223 Cheka (secret police), 14, 16-19, 23-25, 75-80, 91-92, in, 346 Babel's curiosity about, 321-22 Bliumkin and, 104,106 Cherdyn Commandant of, 58-59,61, 67 children of Chekists, 370 evidence collected by, 316 head of, see Yagoda headquarters of, 29-34, 40 "internal emigres" labeled by, 172
Klychkov executed by, 259-60 M. arrested by, 4-12, 236 M.'s attitude toward, 84 M.'s second petition to, 115-16 mass surveillance organized by, 34-35 psychological torture used by, 75-78 rehabilitations affecting, 49 revised values of, 79-80 rumors circulated by, 24 second search by, 16-17,19, 23 seminar group arrested by, 306-7 "summoning" tactics of, 86-88 Cherdyn, see Mandelstam, Osip—exiled
to Cherdyn Cherniak, Robert Mikhailovich, 107 Chichagov, Olga, 310 Chicherin, Georgi Vasilievich, 104 Chorene, Moses of, 227, 241 Chorny, Sasha, 7
Christophorovich (police interrogator), 29-32,40,68, 74-76,79-86,91 described, 30,79 execution of, 82 intimidating manner of, 74 primitive methods of, 80-81 on solitary confinement, 75 Chukovski, Kornei lvanovich, 232, 238 Chuvash Teachers' Training College, 88, 207
Civil War, see Russian Civil War Communism, 113, 287-89 Communist Party, 133, 242, 244-45, 272,
324
artistic standards set by, 96,172 cells of, 34
as inverted church, 256 local, 180 regional, 208
"subversive literature" of, 347 See also Bolsheviks; Central Committee; Twentieth Party Congress "Conversation About Dante" (Mandelstam), 31, 73, 169, 184-85, 190, 247 on form, 187 on his archives, 275 notes for, 251 as a sketch, 155 on special sight, 179 on Virgil, 176 "Convict" cycle, see "Wolf' poetry cycle
Cor Ardens (Ivanov), 236
Criminal Code, Article 58 of, 22, 284, 380
"Cult of personality," 304
Dante (Alighieri), 38, 179, 357 M.'s interest in, 228-29 t
See also "Conversation About Dante' "Dante and the Cab Driver" (Mandelstam), 387
Darmolatova, Maria Nikolayevna, 308-12 Decline of the West, The (Spengler), 249
Denikin, Anton lvanovich, 271 Denunciations, 173, 179» 285, 305 number of, 88
of parents, 212-13 published articles of, 139 of Stalin, 64Я, 373n of tenants, 129-^31 Derzhavin, Gavriil Romanovich, 238, 274 Dialectic of Nature, The (Engels), 241-
24З . . , Diki, Alexei Demsovich, 315-16 "Dina" ("Dinochka") (actress), 39, 90-
91
Dligach (adjutant), 39
as potential traitor, 89-92 Dobroliubov, Nikolai Alexandrovich, 2 37i309
Dr. Zhivago (Pasternak), 83,150-54, 263 composition of, 299 published abroad, 288 Dolmatovski, Yevgeni Aronovich, 386 Dombrovski, Yuri, 387-88, 390 Dunayevski (journalist), 133 Dzerzhinski, Felix Edmundovich, 105-6, 256
M.'s second petition to, 115-16
Education, surveillance in, 34, 206-7 Efros, Abram Markovich, 341 Egyptian Stamp, The (Mandelstam), 173. '75-76 publication of, xii Ehrenburg, Ilia Grigorievich, 22-23, 107, "5, 145, 352, 374 bureaucratic apologia of, 25 dossier on, 316 his description of M., 306 M.'s forced-labor sentence and, 382-84 M.'s poetry criticized by, 187-88 memoirs of, 102, 139 on Stalin poem, 160-61 Ehrenburg, Liuba, vii, 316, 354 Eichenbaum, Boris Mikhailovich, 272 Ekster, Alexandra Alexandrovna, 107 Elections, 51, 338
refusal to vote in, 340 Elsberg, Yakov, 36-37 Erdman, Nikolai Robertovich, 57П, 321,
326-28 Eulenspiegel affair, 178
Fadeyev, Alexander Alexandrovich, 120, 152, 178Я, 261, 352-56 "conspiracy" headed by, 316 government award to, 376-77 as influential figure, 352-53 Fedin, Konstantin, 149, 199, 280, 306, 332
new apartment of, 277-78 Fellow Travelers, 173, 176, 306 Gorki's concern for, 117 government awards to, 376-77 as non-Party Bolsheviks, 168 prosperity of, 39 publication boycotted by, 111 Fet, Afanasi Afanasievich, 238-39 Filippov, Boris Andreyevich, 251 "Finder of a Horseshoe, The" (Mandelstam), 171», 172 "First Voronezh Notebook" (Mandelstam), 72, 191-93 submitted to Fadeyev, 152 Florenski, Father Pavel Alexandrovich, 230
For a Communist Education (magazine), 139,223,235 censorship affecting, 259 Forced-labor camps, 62-65, 133, 187, 316, 377-97 . "crime" committed m, 319 as "health resorts," 211-12 hospitals in, 70, 396 mentally ill in, 124 packages mailed to, 127, 388-90 poetry recited in, 260, 381, 393 "repeaters" in, 144, 384 separation of sexes in, 62 survival in, 378-79, 383, 394~95 Usov in, 364