“He killed himself”: Pasternak, I Remember, p. 89.
“To All [Vsem]”: Vladimir Mayakovsky, suicide note, April 14 [?], 1930, Archives of Mayakovsky Museum (photocopy in FG Archive).
“I’m rummaging”: Quoted in Charters and Charters, I Love, p. 364.
“It was outrageous”: FG Archive, Smakov, pp. 21–22.
“Past one o’clock”: Blake, p. 237.
“I was destroyed”: Yakovleva to Orlova, April 24, 1930, Yakovleva Archive, Mayakovsky Museum.
“Mamulechka moia rodnaia”: Yakovleva to Orlova, May 2, 1930, in ibid., #19600.
Lili Brik, having been named: See Maiakovski, vers et proses, ed. Elsa Triolet, Paris: Les Éditeurs Français Réunis, 1957. Triolet may well have written this volume at her sister’s urging to counter the effect of Roman Jakobson’s publication, in 1956, of Mayakovsky’s “Letter to Tatiana Yakovleva.” Brik obviously had never included this poem in any editions of the poet’s oeuvre, and until then it had remained unpublished. There is not one mention of Yakovleva in Triolet’s book.
Along with her sister: Brik-Triolet Correspondence, pp. 1425–26.
“There are many phrases”: Polonskaya, p. 298.
“It seems to me”: Quoted in Sarnov, Stikhi, p. 490.
“He wrote her some beautiful lines”: FG Archive, Smakov.
In 1935, with the help: Charters and Charters, I Love, p. 365.
Stalin replied: Joseph Stalin, reply to Lili Brik, Archives of the Mayakovsky Museum.
In Pasternak’s scornful phrase: Pasternak, I Remember, p. 101.
“In December of 1929”: David Burliuk, letter to Viktor Pertsov, undated, collection of Alexander Parniss, Moscow, unpublished.
“If he had come back”: FG Archives, Smakov, Russian transcript, cited in Sarnov, pp. 480, 482.
“This early feeling”: Simon Liberman, Building Lenin’s Russia, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, [1945], p. 44.
“I had come out of”: Ibid.
Through this family: Ibid., p. 48.
She was immediately taken: Henriette Pascar, Le Coeur vagabond, p. 74. This was published by a vanity press in Montreal. The copy of it at the New York Public Library was missing the title page with the name of the publisher.
“To me these stopovers”: Liberman, Building Lenin’s Russia, p. 53.
He was constantly horrified: Ibid., p. 50.
In February 1917, five-year-old Alex: Barbara Rose, Alexander Liberman, New York: Abbeville Press, 1981, p. 19.
“Like any child of five”: Ibid.
“As a child brought up”: Ibid., p. 21.
“Our conversations were so pleasant”: Liberman, Building Lenin’s Russia, p. 12.
“Vladimir Ilyich,” Semyon replied: Ibid., p. 41.
Dodie Kazanjian and Calvin Tomkins, Alex: The Life of Alexander Liberman, New York: Knopf, 1993, p. 28.
“I went anyhow”: Ibid., p. 186.
The exhibition was: Rose, Alexander Liberman, p. 25.
She admits that: Pascar, Coeur vagabond, p. 200.
“what I feel for him”: Ibid., p. 218.
“Do you feel better?”: Kazanjian and Tomkins, Alex, p. 46.
“A peppy, high-spirited young woman”: Ibid., p. 72.
“Just leave, Shurik”: Quoted in ibid., p. 75.
“I was both afraid”: Quoted in ibid., p. 77.
“The feeling was indescribably strong”: Quoted in ibid., p. 90.
Lieutenant du Plessix: Le Lieutenant du Plessix, fin, distingué, cultivé, était avant la guerre attaché a l’Ambassade de France a Varsovie. Mobilisé, il avait fait toute la campagne de Pologne comme officier de liaison auprés de l’Armée Polonaise. Aujourd’hui, il n’hésite pas a suivre la voix de sa conscience.
“Neither 18 Brumaire”: Maurice Sachs, Le Sabbat: Souvenirs d’une jeunesse orageuse, Paris: Gallimard, 1960, pp. 68–69.
“Is your husband”: Cardinal de Richelieu’s full name was Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu. The courtesan who is the heroine of Dumas’s novel, on which Verdi’s opera La Traviata is based, is named Marie Duplessis.
“Cordially yours, Lucien Vogel”: interoffice memo, courtesy of Condé Nast Archives.
“or occupying the elevator shafts”: Kazanjian and Tompkins, Alex, p. 107.
Condé Nast, who was then: Helen Lawrenson, Stranger at the Party, New York: Random House, 1972, p. 59.
“Dr. Agha never said a word”: Caroline Seebohm, The Man Who Was Vogue, New York: Viking Press, 1982, p. 235.
“Numbers of families”: E. B. Lanin, Russian Characteristics, London: Chapman and Hall, 1892.
And both she and Alex: Kazanjian and Tomkins, Alex, p. 124.
Tatiana’s spry creations: The New York Times, September 11, 1951.
“When he said ‘Dear friend’”: Helmut Newton, Autobiography, New York: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2003, p. 192–93.
“The attachment to the mother”: Sigmund Freud, Female Sexuality, quoted in Anni Bergman, “Considerations about the Development of the Girl During the Separation-Individuation Process,” in Early Female Development, New York: Spectrum, 1982, p. 61.
The New York Times’s Virginia Pope: The New York Times, September 11, 1951.
“Tatiana specializes in the Bow Geste”: The New Yorker, September 14, 1959.
“the intangible, the visionary”: Rose, Alexander Liberman, p. 76.
“men in religions orders”: Ibid., p. 78.
He loved the company and the magazines: Kazanjian and Tompkins, Alex, p. 219.
“a call to spiritual arms”: Rose, Alexander Liberman, p. 158.
Index
Abetz, Otto
Abstract Expressionism
Adam (A. Liberman)
Addams, Charles
Addams, Daphne
Adrian, Gilbert
Afghanistan
Agha, Mehemed
Aistov, Nikolai Sergeevich
Aix-les-Bains
Albania
Alberti, Yvonne
Alex (Kazanjian and Tomkins)
Allure
Alphand, Claude
Alphand, Hervé
Anouilh, Jean
Anschluss
anticommunism
Antigone (Anouilh)
anti-Semitism
Aragon, Louis
architecture
Armengaud, Jules
Amory, Charles “Chas,”
Amory, Chesborough “Chessy,”
Armstrong-Jones, Anthony
Art International
Artist in His Studio, The (A. Liberman)
Artist in the Studio portraits
Art Students’ League
“At the Top of My Voice” (Mayakovsky)
Audouin-Dubreuil, Louis
Audrey (classmate)
Auschwitz
Ausweis
Auxiliaire Social
Avedon, Richard
Babel, Isaac
bachot
“Backbone Flute, The” (Mayakovsky)
Baker, Josephine
Balashov, Prince
Balenciaga, Cristóbal
Balkin, Serge
Ballard, Bettina
Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo
Balmain, Jacques
Balmain, Jean
Barbut, Denise
Barnard College
Barr, Alfred, Jr.
Bartmer, Vassily Kirillovich
Baruch, Bernard
Baruch, Irena, see Wiley, Irena
Baryshnikov, Mikhail
Bauhaus
Bayonne Times,
Beaton, Cecil
Bedbug, The (Mayakovsky)
Beirut
Belgium
Bennington College
Benois, Aleksandr
Berdyaev, Nikolai
Bergdorf Goodman
Bergé, Pierre
Bergery, Gaston
Bergery, Lalo
Bernier, Rosamond
Birnbaum, Martin
Blackmore, R.
D.
Black Mountain College
Blitzkrieg
Bloom, Claire
Blum, Léon
Blumenfeld, Erwin
Blumenfeld, Kathleen
Boathouse, The (Mayakovsky)
Bolsheviks
see also Social Democratic Workers’ Party
Bouché, René
Bouillerie, Isabelle Carvallo de la
Boy of the Aveyron
Braque, Georges
Brassaï
Brik, Lilia “Lili” Yuryevna
jealousy of
as Mayakovsky’s literary executor
Tatiana’s letters burned by
Brik, Osip
Brodovich, Alexei
Brodsky, Joseph
Brown, Carter
Brown, Tina
Brunhoff, Jean de
Bryn Mawr
Brynner, Yul
Buck, Joan Juliet
Building Lenin’s Russia (S. Liberman)
Bullitt, William
Burgard, Peter
Burliuk, David
Cage, John
Cahan, William
Caine, Lorna
Calder, Alexander
Calvinism
Campidoglio (A. Liberman)
Camrose, Lord
Capa, Robert
Carné, Marcel
Carroll, Madeleine
Cartier-Bresson, Henri
Carvalho Araujo
Carvallo, Joachim
Cassandre, Adolphe
Catholicism
Catroux, François
censorship
Central Timber Council
Chagall, Marc
Chaliapin, Feodor
Chamberlain, Neville
Chanel, Coco
Chardin, Pierre Teilhard de
Charles-Roux, Edmonde
Charpentier, Galerie
Chase, Edna Woolman
Chase, Ilka
Chatou
Chavchavadze, Nina Romanoff
Chavchavadze, Prince David
Cheka
see also secret police, Soviet
Chevalier, Maurice
Chiang Kai-shek
children’s theaters
Chimanskaia, Maria Nikolaevna
China
Christian Science Monitor, The
Churchill, Winston
Churchward, Charles
“Circlism,”
Citizens (Schama)
Citroën, André
Citroën Automobiles
Clinton, Hillary
“Clouds in Trousers, The” (Mayakovsky)
Cocea, Alice
Cocteau, Jean
Colbert, Claudette
collectivization
Collier’s Weekly
commercial art
communal living
communion
Communist Party
Compagnons de la Libération
concentration camps
Condé Nast Publications
Alex and
expansion and retooling of
Iva Patevitch as director of
Newhouse purchase of
see also specific publications
Condé Nast Traveler
Constructivism
Continuous Red (A. Liberman)
contrabandists
“Conversation with a Tax Collector about Poetry” (Mayakovsky)
Corcoran Museum
Cornelia (classmate)
Coughlin, Crosby
Country Life
Cours Hattemer
Couturier, Paul Vaillant
Croisière Jaune
Croisière Noire
Croisset, Ethel Woodward de
Croisset, Philippe de
Croix de la Libération
Crowninshield, Frank
Cubism
Cunningham, Merce
Czechoslovakia
Daché, Lily
Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza
Daily Mirror
Daladier, Edouard
Dalí, Salvador
d’Anglejan, Bernard
Darse, Albert
Daves, Jessica
de Gaulle, Charles
de Sawitch, Eugene
Dessés, Jean
Dessoffy, Hélène
and Bertrand’s custody wishes for Francine
Dessoffy, Jacques
Details
Diaghilev, Sergei
Dietrich, Marlene
Dincklage, Hans Gunther “Spatz” von
d’Indy, Vincent
Dior, Christian
Disney, Anthea
Divine Milieu, The (Chardin)
Dostoevsky, Fyodor
Doumergue, Gaston
Dulles, John Foster
Duncan, Isadora
Dunkirk
Dunne, Irene
Durachki (game)
Dzerzhinsky, Felix
École de Couture
École des Beaux-Arts
École des Langues Orientales
Eden, Anthony
Eisenhower, Dwight D.
Eisenstein, Sergei
El Alamein
Elle
émigrés:
importance of food to
in Paris
society in New York City
Tatiana as icon for
Emmerich, Andre
Entre Deux Guerres
Epstein, Mitzi
Errant Heart, The (Pascar)
Eve (A. Liberman)
Evtushenko, Evgeny
Expeditionary Forces, British
Exposition des Arts Décoratifs
Expressionism
famine
FAO Schwarz
fascism
Fashion Institute of Technology
Fath, Jacques
Fear and Trembling (Kierkegaard)
Fenwick, Millicent
First Circle, The (Solzhenitsyn)
Five-Year Plans
Flynt, Larry
Folles, Années
Follete
Fonssagrives, Lisa
food shortages
Forever Feminine (Wilson)
Fourneau, Jean-Pierre
Foy, Gray
France
anti-Semitism in
division of
fall of
German invasion and occupation of
Great Depression in
liberation of
war declared by
see also Occupied Zone; Vichy France
Franco, Francisco
Frankenthaler, Helen
Fredericks, John
Free French movement
French Protestantism
Freud, Sigmund
Fried, Michael
Gabin, Jean
Gambler, The (Dostoevsky)
Gamelin, Maurice
Garbo, Greta
gasoline shortages
Gaspamont, Madame
Gaynor, Janet
Genghis Khan
George, David Lloyd
Germany
Belgium invaded by
France invaded and occupied by
Holland invaded by
Poland attacked by
Soviet nonaggression pact with
Sudetenland invasion by
see also World War II
Giacometti, Alberto
Gide, André
Gimbel, Adam
Gimbel, Sophie
Givenchy, Hubert de
Glamour
Gobi Desert
Gomez, José
Goncharova, Natalia
Gone with the Wind (Mitchell)
Gorges du Tarn
Gorky, Maxim
Gourmet
GQ
Graff, Monsieur
Gray, Austin
Gray, Cleve
Alex’s relationship with
relationship with in-laws of
Gray, Francine du Plessix
adolescent relationship with Tatiana of
&n
bsp; adolescent sexual sophistication of
Alex as confidante for
Alex’s relationship with
anemia and malnutrition of
arrival in New York of
attempts to protect Alex from Tatiana by
awareness of Tatiana and Alex’s relationship of
Bertrand’s absence and
Bertrand’s death and
birth of
at boarding school
body and self-image difficulties of
book on Tatiana and Alex planned by
broken leg of
childhood illnesses of
childhood interest in fashion of
children born to
Cleve’s courtship of
closure for Bertrand’s death sought by
courtship and marriage to Cleve of
depressions experienced by
early memories of Bertrand of
education of
at Elle,
English learned by
evacuation to Tours of
first evening gown of
first glimpse of Alex by
first meeting with Alexei of
first meeting with Simon of
first meeting with Zina of
first trousers of
at Gujan-Mestras
horseback riding accident of
immigration to U.S. of
improved relations with Tatiana of
informed of Bertrand’s death
insomnia of
interest in photography of
language skills of
living with grandfather in Rochester
loss of trust in Tatiana by
Marlene as surrogate mother to
meeting with Kommandant Herbert of
menstruation problems of
milk runs by
with Monestiers
mononucleosis of
mourning of Bertrand by
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