union arrangements for stay, 353~54.

356-58 used as a trap, 367-69 Savelovo refuge of, 292-95, 298-308,

314-1? , .„ description of village, 293 poetry-reading project, 302-4 short trips outside, 298-300, 304-8, 311, 314-18 second arrest of, 9, 57, 65, 339, 341-42, 361-63, 367-69, 388 cleared of charges, 184 confiscation of his diary, 142

reading materials for, 228 report compiled against, 367-68 warrant for arrest, 361 sworn enemy of, 101-7 as translator, 8, 176-78, 185, 236 denied work, 281

destruction campaign against, 178-79 during exile, 130, 137-39 of French poetry, 176-77, 239-40 his wife's collaboration, vii Voronezh period of, 60, 88,94-101, 118— 144, 180-214, 216-17, 234 adjutant's view, 91 Akhmatova's poem about, 217-18 archiving his compositions, 271-76 attempt at ode to Stalin, 198-200, 203 as "breathing space," 22 character of the town, 141-43 choice of town for exile, 94 composition of notebooks, 71 early manuscripts compiled, 20 end of his sentence, 210-14 funds to cover, 39, 137-42, 144, 181-

183, 261 housing conditions, 128-34 journey to Voronezh, 97-101 lecture on Acmeism, 174 length of stanzas composed, 267-68 notion to return, 284 official papers granted, 118-22 Rudakov's companionship, 9, 271 rumor of his death, 47, 389 visits from police spies, 204-6, 209-10 works of, 22-23, 45-47, 171-94, 366 "albums" compiled in labor camp, 386-87

American collection, xii, 251, 260 Bukharin's role in publication, 113,

117-18 Canal poem, 46-47, 300 chronology, 190-91 confiscated by police, 8^9 copies requested by police agents, 35, 88

copy burned by his brother, 308 derivative (doggerel, comic verse),

72, 214, 35»-52 early, xi-xii

expressions of "world sense," 262-64 first readings (first listeners), 71-73 "Italian themes," 247, 249-50 manuscripts destroyed by authorities, 148-49

manuscripts salvaged from police,

15-17, 20-21, 271 method of composition, 70-71, 180-

181, 184-88 moratorium on publication, 222, 258- 2j9

period of the twenties, 171-77 poetty cycles, 193-94 politics of magazine publication, 138- 139

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.

IIO-II

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

loss of Moscow permit, 121-22, 282-85, 290

during rehabilitation period, 374 temporary Moscow permit, 131 Rolland, Rf main, 364, 380-81, 389 Rossia (magazine), 240-42 Rozhdestvenski, Vsevolod Alexandro­vich, 169

Rudakov Sergei Borisovich, 130, 132, 271-75.291 exile of, 9, 72, 141, 271 # his assistance in archiving, 272-75 temperament of, 273 Russian Art (periodical), 173-74 Russian Association of Proletarian Writ­ers, see RAPP Russian Civil War (1918-20), 67,97,

232,320 Russian Orthodox Church, 10 Russian Revolution of 1917, 153, 176, 262, 271, 307, 34<5 fear engendered by, 85 intelligentsia in, 332

military officers arrested' during, 110-11 poems about, 173, 192 preparation for, 170-71 seductive ideology of, 126 terror of, 115

Sacco-Vanzetti Case, 10 St. Isaac's Cathedral (Leningrad), 309 St. Petersburg, see Leningrad Samatikha, see Mandelstam, Osip—at

Samatikha rest home Sargidzhan, Amir (Sergei Petrovich

Borodin), 90 Savelovo, see Mandelstam, Osip—

Savelovo refuge of Schwab (German flutist), 186-87 Scriabin, Alexander, 72, 157, 174-75, 269 Second Book (Mandelstam) censorship of, 192 compilation of, 269 publication of, xii, 138 "Second Voronezh Notebook"

(Mandelstam), 72, 191-93, 217

arrangement of poems in, 191 composition of, 185 "key" poem of, 196 Secret police, see Cheka; GPU; MGB; Yezhov