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345 Abramtsevo, 3, 6, 38, 67, 68–87, 120, 123, 127, pl4, 143, 201, 291, 292, 308, 310n43, 311n71; home theatricals at, 72–73, 92, 96, 99, 110, 131; workshops at, 10, 12, 74, 86, 119, 293, 299n26. See also Mamontov Circle (Abramtsevo Circle) Abramtsevo Circle. See Mamontov Circle (Abramtsevo Circle) Abramtsevo museum, 6, 96, 299n20 aestheticism, 20, 21, 25, 29, 32, 38, 56, 60; aesthetes, 23, 27–29, 32, 36–38, 58, 62, 75, 286, 307nn97,98, 315n90 Aksakov, the family of, 34, 38, 291; Sergei, 35 Alekseev, the family of, 34; Konstantin , 194, 298n11, 305n41, 326n64. See also Stanislavsky (Alekseev), Konstantin All-Russian Congress of Artists, 49, 83, 89, 293 All-Russian Exhibition at Nizhny Novgorod. See Nizhny Novgorod Exhibition Antokolsky, Mark, 37, 69, 70, 71, 77, 78, pl12, 283, 310n33 Arbatov, Nikolai, 55, 194 Index Locators in italics refer to figures (f), plates (pl), and tables (t). All plates appear between pages 129 and 130. art for art’s sake, 16, 22, 27, 30, 48, 51, 59, 67, 74, 75, 77, 78, 83, 126, 208, 284, 315n96. See also “beauty;” pure art art nouveau, 20, 21, 301n27 art synthesis. See synthesis of the arts Arts and Crafts (Iskusstvo i Khudo­ zhestvennaya Promyshlennost’), 90, 129 Bakst, Léon, 99, 106, 120, 281, 306n67 Balakirev, Mily, 117 Ballets Russes, 5, 9, 59, 63, 125, 126, 278, 294, 299n18, 306n67, 313n34; L’après-midi d’un faune, 125, 306n67; Cléopatre, 106; collaborative methodology of, 99; Coq d’or, 279–80, 290; Daphnis et Chloe, 306n67; Diaghilev and, 6, 8, 105, 129, 181, 290; Firebird, 106; Narcis­ sus, 306n67; Petrushka, 106, 314n69; Schéhérazade, 106; synthesis of the arts and, 106, 290; visual design at, 73, 89, 91–92, 120. See also Diaghilev , Sergei Balmont, Konstantin, 22, 23 Baskin, Vladimir, 91, 94, 104, 153, 226, 259, 312n9 346 · index Baudelaire, Charles, 16, 17, 20, 24, 110, 300n5 Beardsley, Aubrey, 20 “beauty,” 16–20, 22–24, 28, 30–33, 38, 46–49, 52–56, 59, 63–66, 78, 118, 198, 238, 300n2, 327n85, 331n120. See also art for art’s sake; pure art Bedlevich, Anton, 92, pl25, 155, 271, 312n8 Belinsky, Vissarion, 25, 26, 28, 32, 301n33, 303n4 Bely, Andrei, 1, 22, 53, 111 Belyaev, Mitrofan, 245, 276, 332n147 Benois, Alexandre, 12, 23, 49, 85, 92, 99, 106, 126, 127, 201, 281–86, 290, 309n23, 336nn59,61,62 Berdyaev, Nikolai, 18, 19, 302n53 Bilibin, Ivan, 84, 121 Bizet, Georges: Carmen, pl24, 153–54, 162, 168, 220, 248, 249, 295 Blok, Alexander, 1, 22, 111 The Blue Rose group (Golubaya Roza), 60, 84, 85, 199, 287, 294 Bolshoi Theater (Moscow), 3, 144, 185, 187, 188, 199, 209, 214, 217, 221, 228, 234, 262, 276, 327n2; employment at, 46, 88, 93, 95, 102–103, 137, 141, 142, 177, 189, 193, 273, 275, 304n37, 314n53, 315n94, 322n111, 335n27; performances at, 63, 91, 102, pl16, 211–14, 219–21, 223–24, 229–30, 235, 248, 265, 273, 325n38. See also Imperial Theaters (crown theaters) Bondarenko, Ilya, 44, 46–47, 69, 95, 98, 111, 123, 133, 182, 191, 296, 315n95, 328n33 Borisov-Musatov, Victor, 60, 71, 286–87 Borodin, Alexander, 223, 224, 232, 233, 236, 260; Prince Igor (Knyaz Igor), 4, 53, 89, 104, 125, pl25, 181, 184, 189, 219, 220, 224, 232, 233, 242, 243, 264t, 288, 295, 312n8, 325n34, 329n48 Bryusov, Valery, 1, 17, 21, 22–23, 48, 60, 112, 118, 197, 200, 326n81, 337n69 Burenin, Victor, 259, 286, 312n9 Carré, Albert, 84, 289, 294, 311n58 Chaliapin, Feodor, 4, 7, 12, 45, 58, 61, 95, 98, 143, 145, 153, 155, 157–61, 164, 170, 178, 180, 194, 199, 218, 253, 265–66, 268, 272–73, 276, 280, 283, 290, 293, 306n84, 319n35, 320n41, 322n95; and designers, 86, 93–95, 123, 182, 312n20, 313n23; and Diaghilev’s Russian Seasons, 125, 289; transfer to the Bolshoi Theater of, 95, 144–45, 243, 246, 320n44, 322n111, 335n27 Chaliapin, Feodor, roles in: Boris Go­ dunov, 55, pl33, 144, 165, 167–69, 169t, 184, 317n124, 323n127; The Demon, 95; in Faust, 93–95, pl14–16, 320n40; Judith, 123–25, pl13, 200, 201, 323n128; The Maid of Pskov, 184, 217; Mozart and Salieri, 141, 166–67, 170, 271; Prince Igor, 184, 325n34; Sadko, pl17, 184 Chekhov, Anton, 197, 198, 327n85 Chernenko, Maria (Masha), 50, 51, 61, 123, pl27,35, 146, 150–51, 153–55, 158, 163, 178, 180, 305n62, 321n75, Chernyshevsky, Nikolai, 25–29, 32, 303n4; Aesthetic Relations of Art to Reality, 26, 28 Chizhov, Fyodor, 33, 34...

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