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by Catherine Merridale


  Russian Primary Chronicle

  ‘Russian revival’

  Russo-Japanese war

  Ryabtsev, Colonel

  Ryabushinsky family

  Ryapolovsky, Semen Ivanovich

  Ryazan

  Rykov, Aleksei

  Rylsky, I. V.

  Saburova, Alexandra

  Saburova, Solomoniya

  Saltykov clan

  Saltykova, Praskovya

  Samarkand

  Samoilov, Kirill

  Sapieha, Lew

  Sarai (capital of the Mongol Golden Horde)

  Schiller, Friedrich

  Schoenebeck, Adriaan

  Scriabin, Alexander

  Second World War

  secret police see Cheka; FSB; GPU; KGB

  Ségur, Philippe-Paul de, Comte

  Serbia

  serfs: curtailed freedom under Aleksei Mikhailovich; in 19th-century Moscow; emancipation of

  Sergei Aleksandrovich, Grand Duke, governor-general of Moscow

  Sforza, Francesco

  Shalyapin, Fedor

  Sharutin, Trefil

  Shatunovskaya, Lydia

  Shchelkalov, Andrei

  Shchukin, Sergei

  Shchusev, Aleksei

  Shein, Aleksei Semenovich

  Shekhtel, Fedor

  Sheliapina, N. S.

  Sheremetev family

  Sheremeteva, Elena

  Shervud, Leonid

  Shervud, Vladimir

  Shestunov family

  Shevkunov, Tikhon

  Shevtsova, Lilia

  shipyards, English and Dutch Peter the Great works in

  Shokhin, Nikolai

  Shternberg, Pavel Karlovich

  Shuisky, Andrei Mikhailovich

  Shuisky, Ivan Vasilevich

  Shuisky, Vasily Ivanovich (Vasily IV) see Vasily IV, Tsar

  Shuisky family

  Siberia

  Sibir Khanate

  Siena, Italy

  Sigismund III, King of Poland-Lithuania

  Sitsky family

  1612 (film)

  Sixtus IV, Pope

  Skavronska, Marta see Catherine I, Empress

  Skopin-Shuisky, Mikhail

  Skuratov, Malyuta

  Skuratov, Yury

  Slavs, arrival in Moscow

  Smolensk; fortress; taken by the Poles; recaptured under Aleksei Mikhailovich; burns under Naopoleon’s attack

  Snegirev, Ivan

  Snegirev, V. F.

  Socialist Revolutionary Party

  Society for the Study of Russian History

  Society of Lovers of the Arts

  Sofiya Alekseyevna; regent (1682–9)

  Sofiya Palaeologa (Palaeolog, Palaeologina)

  Solari, Pietro Antonio

  Solntsev, Fedor; Antiquities of the Russian State

  Solomon’s Circus

  Soloviev, Sergei

  Sophie Fredericke Auguste of Anhalt-Zerbst, Princess see Catherine II, Empress of Russia (Catherine the Great)

  Soviet art

  Soviet film industry

  Soviet Union see Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)

  Soviet victory parade

  soviets

  spying, in Stalin’s Kremlin

  Sretensky Cathedral

  Staden Heinrich von

  Stalin, Josef; arguments over accommodation in the Kremlin; Five-Year Plan for industry and agriculture; destruction of religious buildings in Moscow; transformation of the Kremlin; paranoia over personal safety; leadership style; spy network; and suicide of Nadezhda Allilueva; and Kremlin Affair; remains in Kremlin during Second World War; death; legacy; Moscow’s landmark towers; discredited by Gorbachev

  Stalin, Nadezhda Allilueva; death of

  Stalin, Svetlana Allilueva

  Stalingrad

  Stanislavsky, Konstantin

  Staraya Moskva

  Stein, Gertrude

  Steinbeck, John

  Stelletskii, I.

  Stravinsky, Igor, The Rite of Spring

  streltsy; abolition of; tortured and killed under Peter the Great

  Stroganov dynasty

  style moderne

  Sukharev Tower

  Sukhov, D. P.

  Suslov, Mikhail

  Suzdal

  Sverdlov, Yakov

  Sverdlovsk (formerly Ekaterinburg)

  Sweden; seizes Novgorod, 1609; Peter the Great forms alliance against; defeated by Russia at Poltava, 1709; Peter the Great signs Peace of Nystad; collections of Russian icons

  swimming pool, public, commissioned by Khrushchev

  Switzerland

  Sylvester the monk

  Synod Choir

  Sytin, Petr Vasilevich

  Taler, John

  Tamerlane

  Taruskin, Richard

  Tatars

  Tatishchev, Vladimir

  Tatlin, Vladimir

  T chaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich

  Telepnev-Obolensky, Ivan Ovchina

  Terem Palace

  terrorism

  textile production, in Moscow

  Thatcher, Margaret

  Theophanes the Greek

  Thirty Years War

  Tikhon, Patriarch

  Till, Karolina

  Time of Troubles

  Times (newspaper)

  Tmutorokan (Black Sea port)

  Tokhtamysh (Mongol leader)

  Tokmakov, Historical Description of Every Coronation of the Russian Tsars

  Tolbuzin, Semen

  Tolstoy, Lev; Anna Karenina

  Tomsky, Mikhail

  Ton, Konstantin; Cathedral of Christ the Saviour

  torture: under Ivan the Terrible; under Boris Godunov; abolition of, by Fedor Alekseyevich; under Peter the Great

  Tovstukha, Ivan

  trade-union movement; Kremlin staff form union

  Trakhaniot, Yury

  Trakhaniotov, Petr

  Tremer, Eduard

  Trepov, Dmitry Fedorovich

  Tretyakov, Pavel

  Tretyakov, S. N.

  Tretyakov dynasty

  Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

  Trinity-St Sergius Monastery

  Trotskaya, Natalia Sedova

  Trotsky, Leon; and Brest-Litovsk treaty; founds the Red Army

  Trubetskoi, Dmitry

  Trubetskoi palace

  Trutovsky, V. K.

  Tsaritsyno

  Tsars of Russia: Ivan I, ‘Kalita’; Ivan III; Ivan IV (‘the Terrible’); Fedor I Ivanovich; Boris Godunov; Fedor II Borisovich; ‘False Dmitry’; Vasily Shuisky; Mikhail Fedorovich; Aleksei Mikhailovich; Fedor Alekseyevich; Peter I, (Peter the Great); Catherine I; Elizabeth; Peter III; Catherine II (Catherine the Great); Paul I; Alexander I; Nicholas I; Alexander II; Alexander III; Nicholas II

  Tula

  Turgenev, Ivan

  Turks, and fur trade

  Turover, Felipe

  Tver; rebuilt in European style

  Ugudey (son of Genghis Khan)

  Ukhtomsky, Dmitry Vasilyevich; architecture school

  Ukraine; vote for independence

  underground railway (metro)

  UNESCO: designates Kremlin World Heritage Site; protests about about building work in the Kremlin

  Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR): Treaty of Brest-Litovsk; civil war; Stalin’s Five-Year Plan; and Second World War; shoots down Korean airliner; war in Afghanistan; Congress of People’s Deputies; break up of; Soviet legacy

  United States of America: donate aid in famine; Hillwood collection, of Russian icons Washington; warns Gorbachev of coup

  The Unknown History of Russia1945–2006, school textbook

  Upper Trading Rows (GUM)

  Ushakov, Simon; The Tree of the State of Muscovy

  USSR see Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)

  Ustinov, Dmitry

  Uvarov, Aleksei

  Uvarov, Sergei

  Uzbek (Mongol Khan)

  Valdai Club

  Valu
ev, Petr Stepanovich

  Vasily II Vasilevich, Tsar

  Vasily III Ivanovich, Tsar

  Vasily IV, Tsar (Vasily Shuisky)

  Vasnetsov, Apollinary

  Vasnetsov, Victor

  Vedenin, Aleksandr

  Vedomosti (newspaper)

  Veltman, Alexander

  Venice, Italy

  Versailles, France

  Vesnin, Leonid

  Vesnin, Victor

  Vetterman

  Viatichi

  Vienna, Austria

  View of Moscow from the Stone Bridge

  Vikings, campaigns and settlements

  Vilno, Lithuania

  Vinogradov, N. D.

  Viollet-le-Duc, Eugene

  Virgin of Vladimir (icon)

  Viskovatyi, Ivan

  Vitberg, Alexander

  Vitruvius

  Vladimir (city); Dormition Cathedral

  Vladimir Monomakh

  Vladimir of Kiev

  Vladimir of Staritsa

  Vlasik, Nikolai

  Vodovzvodnaya tower

  Volga River

  Volkogonov, Dmitry

  Volpe, Gian-Battista della

  Voltaire

  Voronin, Nikolai

  Voroshilov, Kilment

  Voskresenskoe

  Voyce, Arthur

  White City

  White Russia

  William III of England

  Winter Palace, St Petersburg

  Witte, Count

  Wladislaw of Poland

  women: Ascension Convent as burial place for royal women; in the Kremlin; as rulers

  workers’ day, May 1st

  Wren, Christopher

  xenophobia, in Putin’s Russia

  Yagoda, Genrikh

  Yannisaari, site of St Petersburg

  Yaroslavl

  Yeltsin, Boris: background; ordered demolition of house where Nicholas II was murdered; rise in popularity; voted Russian President; and 1991 coup; moves into the Kremlin; seizes assets of Communist Party; rivalry with Gorbachev; handed power by Gorbachev; succeeds Gorbachev as President; dissloves parliament and orders assault on the White House; approves new constitution, 1993; attends re-interment of Romanov family; presented with gifts from Queen Elizabeth II; corruption investigations; resigns as President; on the Kremlin

  Yeltsin, Elena, corruption investigations

  Yeltsin, Naina

  Yeltsin, Tatiana, corruption investigations

  Yoasaf, Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia

  Yona, Metropolitan of Kiev and all Russia

  Yov, Metropolitan of Moscow and first Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church

  Yurev-Zakharin, Nikita Romanovich

  Yury of Moscow

  Yury Vasilevich (brother of Ivan the Terrible)

  Zabelin, Ivan; The History of the City of Moscow; The Home Life of the Muscovite Tsars

  Zaraysk

  Zavidovo (hunting lodge)

  Zhilardi, Dementy

  Zhirinovsky, Vladimir

  Zhukov, Georgy

  Zhurin, Oleg

  Zinoviev, Grigory

  Zoe Palaeologina see Sofiya Palaeologina

  Zolkiewski, Stanislaw

  Zotov, Nikita

  Zubalovo

  Zubov, Aleksei

  Zubov, Ivan

  Zvenigorod

  Zyuganov, Gennady

  1. Simon Ushakov (1626–1686), The Tree of the State of Muscovy, 1668.

  2. Kremlin Cathedral of the Dormition.

  3. Sixteenth-century Moscow School: The Entry into Jerusalem (Palm Sunday).

  4. Blessed Be the Hosts of the Heavenly Tsar (mid-sixteenth century).

  5. Joan Blaue’s Kremlenagrad (1662).

  6. Bell tower of Ivan the Great.

  7. Celebrations in the Faceted Palace for the coronation of Tsar Mikhail Fedorovich Romanov, July 1613.

  8. A Palm Sunday Procession before the Kremlin, drawing based on sketches by the German diplomat Adam Olearius (d. 1671).

  9. Pieter Picart (1638–1737) and students, Panorama of Moscow in 1707 (detail).

  10. Bazhenov’s model of the Grand Kremlin Palace. Finally approved version: The central part of the façade from the Moscow river, 1772–3. Scale 1:48.

  11. Bazhenov’s model of the Grand Kremlin Palace. First version: View of a fragment of the central part from inside, 1769–73. Scale 1:48.

  12. Johann Christian Oldendorp, The Fire of Moscow in September 1812.

  13. Fedor Yakovlevich Alekseev, Cathedral Square in the Moscow Kremlin (early nineteenth century).

  14. Jean-Baptiste Arnout’s view of the Kremlin and the Saviour Tower.

  15. A view of the Patriarch’s Court, F. Dreher after F. G. Solntsev (1801–92).

  16. The helmet of Prince Alexander Nevsky, F. Dreher after F. G. Solntsev (1801–92).

  17. Fedor Yakovlevich Alekseev, Church of the Saviour in the Forest, 1800–1810.

  18. The interior of the Faceted Palace.

  19. An early twentieth-century postcard of the monument to Tsar Alexander II.

  20. Street scene close to the Saviour Tower and Kremlin walls, c. 1898.

  21. S. P. Bartenev’s map of the Kremlin, from The Moscow Kremlin in Old Times and Now, early twentieth century.

  22. Henri Gervex, study for The Coronation of Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra in the Church of the Assumption [Dormition] on 14th May 1896

  23. Mounted soldiers guarding the Kremlin’s Nikolsky gate in the aftermath of the February 1917 revolution.

  24. Shrapnel damage to the Chudov Monastery in the wake of shelling in November 1917.

  25. Lenin (third from left) beside the Kremlin walls at the inauguration of S. T. Konenkov’s commemorative bas-relief, ‘Genius’, 7 November 1918.

  26. Alexander Gerasimov, Joseph Stalin and Kliment Voroshilov in the Kremlin, 1938.

  27. Victory Parade in Red Square, 1945.

  28. Lenin’s Mausoleum on Red Square.

  29. A group of Party VIPs, including Leonid Brezhnev, Nikolai Podgorny, East Germany’s Walter Ulbricht, Mikhail Suslov and Mongolian leader Yumzhagin Tsedenbal, on top of the Lenin Mausoleum during a ceremonial meeting of the All-Union Winners Youth Rally, Moscow, September 1966.

  30. Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and Russian President Boris Yeltsin at a Kremlin press conference in October 1991.

  31. The exterior of the Faceted Palace, showing the reconstructed Red Stair (1992–4).

  32. Russian President Vladimir Putin (left) and former President Boris Yeltsin on the ceremonial palace steps during the inauguration ceremony for Putin on 7 May 2000.

  Acknowledgements

  I could not have written this book without the generous support of the Leverhulme Trust, whose Major Research Fellowship released me from my teaching duties and also supported a good deal of travel and research. Such funding, graciously awarded and administered with the lightest touch, is both a life-line and a real inspiration. I am indebted to the Trustees, and also to the friends who supported my application, especially Emma Rothschild, Stephen A. Smith and the late Tony Judt. At an early stage in the work, also thanks to Tony Judt, I was a visiting Fellow at New York University’s Remarque Institute, a stimulating experience for which I should also like to thank Jair Kessler and Katherine E. Fleming.

  In the course of the research itself, I received expert help, advice and consolation from so many people that it is impossible to name them all. I owe a particular debt to Elena Gagarina and her staff in the Kremlin Museum Reserve and Library. Andrei Batalov, the director of the Kremlin’s historic buildings, was generous with his time and knowledge, and I also thank Tatiana Panova, the director of Kremlin archaeology. On many visits to Moscow, I was welcomed by the enthusiastic staff of its State Historical Library and by the staffs of several of the major state archives, including the State Archive of the Russian Federation and the Archive of Ancient Acts. I am also indebted to the State (Lenin) Library of the Russian Federation, the State
Historical Archive, the State Archive of the Economy and the Shchusev Museum of Architecture. Moscow colleagues and friends were generous as always, and I should especially like to thank Sergo Mikoyan, Stepan Mikoyan, Pavel Palazhchenko, Vsevolod Pimenov and Sergei Romaniuk.

  I had to read so many rare books and collections in the past few years that the staff of Oxford’s Bodleian Library, and especially those in the Upper Reserve and the Taylorian Slavonic Library, will probably have noticed a welcome drop in their daily workload since this manuscript was finished. It was a privilege to read in such company, and I should also like to thank the staffs of the British Library, the Library of the School of Slavonic Studies at University College London, the London Library, and the Cambridge University Library. In addition, I am indebted to the staff of the New York Public Library (and especially its much-loved Slavic and Baltic Division), notably Edward Kasinec. The staff of the Hillwood Museum and Library in Washington welcomed me in 2007, and I should particularly like to thank Scott Ruby, who not only introduced me to the collection but also shared some of his unpublished findings.

  The project took me well outside my accustomed research areas – that was a large part of the initial attraction – but it also left me more than usually indebted to readers with a special expertise in its individual fields. I am grateful for the kindness of Alla Aronova, Sergei Bogatyrev, Anna Pikington, Donald Rayfield and Jonathan Shepard, each of whom read parts of the draft and offered detailed and extremely generous comments. None, of course, bears any responsibility for my mistakes. Nor do the many others who talked me through individual aspects of the book, in which connection I should like to thank Brigid Allen, Jill Bennett, Kathleen Berton Murrell, Sir Rodric Braithwaite, Clementine Cecil, Robert Dale, Simon Dixon, Vladimir Faekov, Baron Hennessy of Nympsfield, Jeremy Hicks, Valerie Holman, Geoffrey Hosking, Baron Hurd of Westwell, Ira Katznelson, Igor Korchilov, Vladimir Kozlov, Sue Levene, Kate Lowe, Sir Rodrick Lyne, Isabel de Madariaga, Anne McIntyre, Philip Merridale, Nicola Miller, Serena Moore, Sergei Orlenko, Tina Pepler, W. F. Ryan, Andreas Schonle, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jon Smele, Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov, Elena Stroganova, Katherin Townsend, Tamar de Vries Winter and Richard Wortman. The members of the Early Slavists online discussion forum provided numerous new leads, and I am also indebted to the late Tony Bishop, who never got to see what I made of his delightful notes. In a different vein, and somewhat later in the process, Octavia Lamb provided expert assistance in tracking down many of the illustrations and Charlotte Ridings helped prepare the final text.

 

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