posthumous publication, 122, 375-76 preserved by archiving, 268-76 readings of dangerous poems, 91-92
right to destroy manuscripts, 46-47 superstition about poetic references, 198
Tikhonov's promised preface, 234 voice of the outsider, 178 See also Stalin, Josef—M.'s poem about; individual works by name Mandelstam, Tania Grigoriev (M.'s sister-
in-law), 98, 308-12 Mandelstam, Tatka (M.'s niece), 282, 308-12
Marants, Fedia, 71-73, 182, 214 "Margulets," 72 Margulis, Alexander, 281 as first listener, 72 in forced-labor camp, 383 manuscripts circulated by, 222-23 Marshak, Samuil Yakovlevich, 138,163га, 318
Mass deportation, 97-98, 158, 337
as past history, 209 Mayakovslri, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 107, 120-21, 188, 327 death of, 27, 158, 325 as poet of rival school, 238 as State poet, 226 Mei, Lev Alexandrovich, 238 Melikez, 296
Meyerhold, Vsevolod Emilievich, 167,
289, 326, 374 MGB (secret police), $n, 254 in Perm, 99
residence permits granted by, 136 role of, in exile system, 211-13 Midnight in Moscow (Mandelstam), 176 Migai, Sergei Ivanovich, 142 Mikhoels, Solomon Mikhailovich, 122, 148, 300
Mikoyan Anastas Ivanovich, 375 "Minus twelve" sentence, 94 Mirbach, Wilhelm (Count von Mirbach-
Harff), 102, 104-9 "Mitrofan" (tenant in Voronezh), 128-29 Molotov, Viacheslav Mikhailovich, 117,
160, 180, 316 "Moral Experience of the Soviet Era,
The" (Elsberg), 37 "Morning of Acmeism, The" (Mandelstam), 263, 268 Morozov, Alexander Antonovich
(Sasha), 160, 240 Morozov, Pavel ("Pavlik"), 213 Moscow, 109-12, 179, 182, 260, 341-43 Akhmatova's trip to, 3-4 "arranging things" by trips to to mail parcels, 342-43 after M.'s second arrest, 362 trips from Kalinin, 334-35 trips from Savelovo, 298-300, 303-4 during Voronezh exile, 127, 129-30, 137, 140, 43-45, 182, 211, 271-72 books sold in, 235 "Buddhist," 248 city transportation, 130 civilized values absent from, 302 electronic eavesdropping in, 33-34
famine in, 99
lodging in friends' apartments in, 346-J2 M. not published in, 173 M.'s sentence commuted by, 94 May Day celebrations in, 359 merchant quarter of, 265 Pasternak's position in, 154 permission to live in, see Residence permits
police victims on perimeter of, 294
Rolland in, 380-81
show trials in, 336
See also Herzen House; Kremlin;
Lubianka; Mandelstam, Osip—first arrest of; imprisonment of; post- exile period of Moscow Komsomol (newspaper), 89, 306
Moskva (magazine), 122Я, 283, 351 Mravian, Askanaz Axtemeivich, 250 My Sister Life (Pasternak), 190, 236
Nakanune (emigre newspaper), 138 Narbut, Sima, 39
Narbut, Vladimir Ivanovich, 95-96, 281 death of, 383 as editor, 138 "sanctuary" named by, 4 "Natalia" (Vasilia Shklovski's sister), 3SO-SI
"Neo-Acmeist" poetry, 154 Nest of Simple Folk, 137 Nesterov, Mikhail Vasilievich, 290 "New age" ("new era"), 235, 325 capitulation before, 162-69 failure to come to terms with, 176-79 historical inevitability of, 44 "new law" of, 95-96 "new" morality of, 308 "new people" of, 82 sickness of, 48 New Economic Policy (NEP), 14,165 New order (social structure), 251-58
resistance to change and, 253-55 "New Verse" (Mandelstam), 192-93 Nikolskoye, 142
Nikulin, Lev Veniaminovich, 278 Nilender, Vladimir Nikolayevich, 223 Noise of Time, The (Mandelstam), 170, 173, 243, 255 fur coat theme of, 193 manuscript of, 270 publication of, xii, 111 rejection of, 241 See also Egyptian Stamp
"Ode to Stalin" (Mandelstam), 198-203
"free" poetic by-products of, 198, 200-1 "Old Crimea" (Mandelstam), 85 On Poetry (Mandelstam), xii, 174 "On the Nature of Words" (Mandelstam), 229 "On the Reader" (Mandelstam), 264-65 Orlov, Vladimir Nikolayevich, 375-76 Oshanin, Lev Ivanovich, 149 "Osip" (guard), 51-53, 5&-59
Otsup, Nikolai Avdeyevich, 110
"Pack of Hounds" (Barbier), 176-77 Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich, 83, 126, 131, 144-54, i6CH-6I, 17871, 259 his manner of speaking, 156-57 letter from, 276
literary establishment's break with, 151 literary persecution of, 225-26 M.'s copies of, 236 at Peredelkino, 298-99 as petitioner for M.'s release, 25-27, 145 refuses to sanction executions, 108 religion of, 262 on Stalin poem, 161 Stalin's conversation with, 145-49, 214 technical audience of, 249 unproductive period of, 162 on Voronezh poems, 190 See also Dr. Zhivago Pasternak, Zinaida Nikolayevna, 45, 298- 299
"Patriarch, The" (Mandelstam), 198 Paustovski, Konstantin Georgievich, 318 Pavlenko, Peter Andreyevich, 84-85, 233, 348
Peredelkino, 298-99, 349 Perm, 69,97,99-100 Peshkova, Ekaterina Pavlovna, 23-25 Petrograd (Petersburg), see Leningrad Petrov, Evgeni Petrovich (Kateyev), 300
The Twelve Chairs, 325-26, 328 Piast, Vladimir Alexeyevich, 12, 334 salvaged manuscripts of, 8, 19-20 Pillar and Affirmation of the Truth
(Florenski), 230 Pilniak, Boris Andreyevich, 113 Pisarev, Dmitri Ivanovich, 172 Podvoiski, Nikolai Ilyich, 322-24 "Poem Without a Hero" (Akhmatova),
30, 70, 202 Poems (Mandelstam), xii, 113 Poets' Cafe (Moscow), 104 Poets' Guild, 4,45 Poets' Library, 234, 351, 375 Polezhayev, Alexander Ivanovich, 238 "Political Red Cross," 23 Polivanov, E. D., 218 Polonski, Yakov Petrovich, 238 Postupalski, Igor Stefanovich, 27 Pravda (newspaper), 84,158, 301, 336-37 literary editor of, 242-43 story commissioned by, 317 subscription to, 336 "Preservation," see "Isolation but preservation" order "Preserve My Speech" (Mandelstam),
71, !94
Prishvin, Mikhail Mikhailovich, 194 Prokofiev, Alexander Andreyevich, 374 "Prophet" (Lermontov), 220 Punin, Nikolai Nikolayevich, 3, 220, 314 Pushkin, Alexander Sergeyevich, ix-x, 30, 52, 66, 100, 243, 357 Akhmatova's interest in, 229 misinterpretation of, 264
Symbolist revival of, 238 Yakhontov's performances of, 120
Rakovski, Christian Georgievich, 193 RAPP (Russian Association of Proletarian Writers), 152, 166, 177 fall of, 172, 233 Raskolnikov, Fedor Fedorovich, 105-0.
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Raznochintsi, 176, 179 Razumova, Professor, 290 Rehabilitation, period of, 48-50, 280, 389 informers' response to, 48 M.'s rehabilitation applied for, 373-76, 396
suspicions about, 33 Reisner, Larisa Mikhailovna, 49, 106
as revolutionary woman, 108-12 Residence permits, 52, 118-22,128,134-36 cancellation of, 295