The House of Government

by Slezkine, Yuri

  Drainage (Vodootvodnyi) Canal, 5, 9, 10, 15, 17, 321, 329, 355, 386, 445, 511, 651

  Dreitser, E. A., 718–19

  Dubrovina, L. V., 814

  Dukhobors, 19

  Dürer, Albrecht, 583

  Durkheim, Emile, 73–74

  Dushechkina, Katia, 834

  Dzerzhinsky (Dzierżyński), Feliks, 216–17, 243, 388, 425, 819

  Dzhugashvili, Iosif Vissarionovich. See Stalin, Joseph

  Edson, Hiram, 98, 220, 272

  Edwards, Jonathan, 96

  Efimov, Boris, 233–34, 560, 603, 784, 856

  Efron, Ariadna, 886

  Egon-Besser, Kira, xiv, 64–66, 126, 134, 152, 165

  Ehrenburg, Ilya, 27, 247, 476–77; The Second Day (aka: Out of Chaos), 363–65, 369–73

  Eikhe, Robert Indrikovich (Roberts Eihe), 434, 516, 755–58, 760–61, 766–67, 809, 840–43, 864, 870, 984

  Eikhe (Rubtsova), Evgenia Evseevna, 809, 984

  Einem Chocolate Candy and Cookie Factory, 5–7, 18, 140, 149–50. See also Red October Candy Factory

  Eisenstadt, S. N., 121

  Elchugina, Shura, 834

  Eliade, Mircea, 74

  émigrés, 600–606, 647

  Engels, Frederick, 57, 115–17, 152

  Enlightenment, 104

  entertainments. See leisure entertainments

  entryways (House of Government), 347, 353, 377

  Enukidze, Avel, 188, 190–91, 217, 318, 395, 717

  Epstein, Motia, 894, 896

  Esaulov, A. A., 841

  Esenin, Sergei, 280, 287–88, 794

  estates. See dachas

  Eternal Law, 405–6, 471, 844

  exile, 46–55

  exodus stories, 77, 193–94, 202–5, 208, 369, 606

  Ezhov, Nikolai Ivanovich: arrest/interrogation/trial and execution of, 865–66, 870; descriptions of, 792; government assignments of, 507, 516, 866; personal life of, 839–40; purges and, 715, 718–19, 724, 728, 735, 754, 758, 760–64, 767, 790, 794, 801, 865; replacement of, 812, 864

  Fadeev, Aleksandr, 197, 447, 476, 934; The Rout, 201–3

  family life. See marriage and family life

  famines, 190, 424–26, 428–34, 436, 438–39

  fascism, 714, 848

  February Revolution (1917), 65, 123–26

  Fedin, Konstantin: The Garden, 280

  Fedorov, Nikolai, 20

  Fedotov, Fedor Kallistratovich, 449–53, 676, 770, 984

  Fedotov, Lyova, xiv, 450, 451–52, 674–93, 713, 908–14, 921–23, 954, 963, 984

  Fedotova (Markus), Roza Lazarevna, 449, 676, 923, 935–36, 984

  Fedulov, Ivan Mikhailovich. See Gronsky (Fedulov), Ivan Mikhailovich

  Feuchtwanger, Lion, 595, 730, 733, 954

  Fifth Monarchists, 93–94, 180

  Filarete, 584–85

  Filatova, Nadezhda Dmitrievna (“Dina”). See Osinskaia (Filatova), Nadezhda Dmitrievna (“Dina”)

  Finney, Charles, 96

  Finnish War (1939), 685–87

  Fischer, Louis, 244

  Fishman, Emmanuil Grigorievich (“Monya”), 684, 908

  Fishman, Raisa Samoilovna (“Raya”), 684, 908

  Five-Year Plans (1928–1932): collectivization and, 413, 421–24, 426–29, 454–55, 508; coming to an end of, 465–66; cultural revolution and, 454–56, 459, 472–78; industrialization and, 279, 345–46, 408, 415, 421, 454; modernization and, 597; result of, 468

  Fleischmann, Rosa, 518

  floods (as metaphor), 193, 195, 208, 211, 365–66, 368

  forced labor, 414–18, 422

  Fourier, Charles, 106, 335

  Fradkin, Iosif Mikhailovich. See Volin, Boris Mikhailovich

  Fradkina, Raisa Efimovna, 234

  Fradkina, Sofia, 234, 784

  France, Anatole: The Gods Are Athirst, 906, 954

  free fellowships, 55–62

  French Revolution, 105, 107–8, 192–93, 711

  Frenkel, Aron, 166–67, 774

  Frenkel, N. A., 414

  Freund, Gertrude (“Gera”), 241, 795–97, 983

  Fridliand, Mikhail. See Koltsov (Fridliand), Mikhail Efimovich

  friendships: building and growth of socialism and, 560–62; of children, 651–53, 655–56, 903, 955; comradeship and, 55, 552–54, 794; letter-writing and, 554–55; during purges, 833; of students, 26–31; of workers, 41–42. See also reading and study

  Frinovskaia, Nina, 507

  Frinovsky, Mikhail, 440, 506–7, 516, 755, 758, 762–64, 767–69, 865–66, 870

  Frunze, Mikhail, 281, 283, 286–87

  Frye, Northrop, 702

  F. T. Einem. See Einem Chocolate Candy and Cookie Factory

  Furmanov, Dmitry: Chapaev, 201–2, 204

  Gaister, Aron Izrailevich, 308–9, 386, 440, 455, 517, 522, 541, 548–49, 622, 790, 843–45, 863, 984

  Gaister, Igor, 889

  Gaister, Inna, xiv, 390, 499, 541, 548–49, 654, 660, 790–91, 828, 888–90, 926, 928–29, 984

  Gaister, Natalia (“Natalka”), 790–91, 828, 984

  Gaister, Semen (“Siunia”), 803–4, 889

  Gaister, Valeria (“Valiushka”), 790–91, 828, 984

  Gaister (Kaplan), Rakhil Izrailevna, 386, 499, 790–91, 830, 926, 984

  Gamarnik, Yan (Yakov Pudikovich), 820–21, 869

  Ganetskaia, Khanna (Hanna Hanecka), 886

  Gavrilova, Sonia, 443, 561

  Gavrilovna, Feodosia, 280

  Geertz, Clifford, 74

  Gelfreikh, V. G., 359–60

  Gelman, Ruslan, 822–23

  Germany, 588, 601, 606, 647, 714; coming of war and, 912–14

  Gershman, Lena, 907, 918

  Gevorkian, Elizaveta Fadeevna, 873–74

  Gibbon, Edward, 180

  Gide, André, 594–95, 598, 641

  Gilinskaia, Nelly, 829

  Gilinsky, Abram, 494, 515, 829

  Gilinsky, David, 829

  Ginzburg, M. Ya., 342–45

  Gladkov, Fyodor, 285, 519; Cement, 268; Energy, 363, 365, 368–71, 409

  Glavlit (censorship office), 457

  Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 288; as a “classic,” 510, 610, 656, 953; Faust, xiii, 105, 271, 476–78, 592, 634, 643, 646, 661, 848–49, 881, 897, 979–80

  Gogol, Nikolai, 57, 282, 623, 780–82; Dead Souls, 196; “Viy,” 780–81

  Goldstein, Moisei. See Volodarsky, Vladimir

  Goloshchekin, Filipp Isaevich (Shaia Itskov, “Georges”): almost marriage of, 937; apartment of, 383, 435, 984; arrest and interrogation of, 840, 843; on collectivization, 426, 840; description of, 428; on disciplining the faithful, 294–95; exile of, 49; February Revolution and, 65–66; friendships of, 147, 281; government assignments of, 184, 383, 428–29, 434–35, 439; murder of Nicholas II and, 155–56; photographs of, 54, 428; reading and study by, 279; rehabilitation for, 937

  Goloshchekina (Vinogradova), Elizaveta Arsenievna, 435, 984

  Golovkova, Lydia, 862

  Golubchik, Mikhail, 771, 870

  Golubovsky, B. G., 402, 616–17

  Goppen, Olga, 241

  Gorbachev, Mikhail, 946, 948

  Gordon, Nina, 854

  Gorky, Maxim, 23, 55, 57, 147, 279, 458, 473, 593, 639; The Day of the World, 593–94

  Gorky Park, 511–12, 594–95, 605, 651

  Gosset, Hélène, 518

  Gotfrid, Mirra, 561, 819

  Gounot, Charles: Faust, 905

  Governor General’s (Soviet) Building (Moscow), 127–28, 138–40

  Granovskaia (Kolosova), Zinaida, 412, 930–31, 985

  Granovsky, Anatoly, xiv, 412, 420, 654, 700–701, 803, 812, 879–82, 921, 929–31, 985

  Granovsky, Mikhail Aleksandrovich, xiv, 411–16, 419–20, 440, 503, 539–40, 803, 846, 984–85

  Granovsky, Valentin, 412, 921, 985

  Granovsky, Vladimir, 420, 930–31, 985

  Great Awakenings (America), 96

  “the great breakthrough,” 298, 340, 353, 357. See also Five-Year Plans

  Grekova,
Inna Fedorovna, 889

  Gresshöner, Maria. See Osten (Gresshöner), Maria

  Griadinsky, F. P., 765

  Grinberg, I., 639–40

  Grinberg, Khristiana Grigorievna (Khasia Girshevna). See Kon (Grinberg), Khristiana Grigorievna

  Grinberg, Ya. A., 837–39

  Grinblat, Grigory Abramovich (“Grisha”), 907, 918, 920

  Gronskaia, Elena, 500

  Gronskaia, Lydia Aleksandrovna, 499, 521, 536, 985

  Gronsky (Fedulov), Ivan Mikhailovich: apartments of, 458–59, 489, 726, 985; arrest/interrogation/trial of, 840; Congress of Soviet Writers and, 472–73; friendships of, 519–20; government assignments of, 472–73, 519, 521; on OGIZ, 457–58; photographs of, 472, 521, 542; on socialist realism, 477, 489; on trials, 861–62; worker origins of, 486; work schedules of, 497

  Guber, Boris, 842

  Guillaume de Trie, 91

  Gurov, Zhenia, 677, 680, 908–11, 913, 936

  Gurvich, A. S., 628–29

  Gurvich, Esfir, 248–49

  Gusev, Sergei (Yakov Drabkin), 289, 291

  Guskova, Tatiana Nikolaevna, 901

  Gustav List Metal Works. See List Metal Works

  Gutzkow, Karl: Uriel Acosta, 616, 661–64, 837–38

  Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia, 101

  Hamilton, Hector, 358

  Hammer, Armand, 879

  Hamsun, Knut: Victoria, 68, 249–53, 745, 905

  Hanecka, Hanna (Khanna Ganetskaia), 886

  Heavenly Jerusalem, as ideal city, 582

  Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 111, 113, 117, 288

  Heine, Heinrich, 57, 146–47, 669, 895; “Belsazar,” 156, 279; “Germany,” 279

  Hemingway, Ernest: For Whom the Bell Tolls, xv

  Heuss, Oskar, 6

  Heuss, Vladimir, 150

  history, 104–5, 951–52. See also linear time, development of

  Hitler, Adolf, 588, 714

  Home for Party Veterans (Peredelkino), 936

  Hong Xiuquan, 102–3

  Housekeeping Department, 186–88, 440, 535, 813

  House of Government (Moscow): address of, 380; administration of, 615, 618–19, 924–25; architect/designer of, 318–19, 325, 327, 389, 408; as a besieged fortress, 713–14; completion of, 329; construction of, 320–21, 324–26; construction photographs of, 320–26, 329, 330–33; constructivist elements of, 347, 353, 494; cost of, 328–29, 393; courtyards of, 649–50, 650–52, 659, 800, 870; critiques of, 362, 494; encounters with collectivization, 439–45; end of, 914; floor plans of, 348, 651; food services in, 495–96, 618; guards and staff of, 391–93, 496, 528, 618–19, 621, 924; holiday decorations on, 527–28; initial plans for, 318–19; interiors of, 487–95; kindergarten in, 482, 648; photographs of, 349–51, 354–56, 394–95, 407, 617, 649, 650; recreation facilities in, 393–407, 495, 615, 648; regulations of, 388–89; remembrances of, 950, 962–63; residents of, 377–93, 391, 482–87, 619–22, 773, 801, 813, 862–63, 924–25, 935–36, 983–94; services in, 495, 618; site plan of, 352; summary descriptions of, xi–xii, 320, 346–47, 353, 482; as transitional type, xi, 346–47, 508, 615, 648, 650; workers on, 321–25, 329

  House of the Commissariat of Finance (Narkomfin), 343–44

  Houses of Revolution: Governor General’s (Soviet) Building, 127–28, 138–40; Smolny Palace, 134, 136–38, 145; Tauride Palace, 123–25

  Houses of Soviets (Moscow), 186–89, 318; behavior in, 224–26, 266; establishment of, 145; post-war returnees to, 925; services provided in, 188, 190

  Houtermans, Fritz, 840, 843

  Howard, Ebenezer, 583

  hygiene. See physical culture and hygiene

  Ibsen, Henrik, 64, 281; Brand, 61–63, 279; Peer Gynt, 61–62, 646

  Ilf, Ilya, 234, 603; The Golden Calf, 362–63, 365, 374; “How Robinson Was Created,” 613–14, 643

  immortality. See death and immortality

  Inca Empire, 99

  individualism, xi, 45, 211, 276, 340–41, 405–6, 508, 623

  industrialization, 17, 914; Five-Year Plans and, 345–46, 408, 415, 421, 454; NEP and, 279

  inferno stories, 205

  Institute of the Peoples of the East, 389

  intelligentsia, 23–24, 36–37, 106, 109, 520–21

  International Art and Technology Exposition (1937), 501–3

  internationalism, 203, 242–43

  interrogations, 840. See also trials and purges

  Ioannites, 19

  Iofan, Boris Mikhailovich: apartment of, 489–90, 985; architectural criticism by, 590–91; friendships of, 745; House of Government and, 318–19, 325, 327, 389, 408; Palace of Soviets and, 357–59, 585; Paris Expo (1937) and, 502–3; photographs of, 319, 328

  Iofan (Sasso-Ruffo), Olga Fabritsievna, 408, 985

  Ioselevich, Aleksandr, 386, 622

  Ippo, Boris, 802

  Irbe, V. A., 528, 813

  Isaev, Uraz, 434

  Isbakh, Aleksandr, 284, 450–52, 457

  Islam, 87–89, 180, 299, 953

  Israelite millenarianism, 77–82, 88, 104, 180, 711

  Itskov, Shaia. See Goloshchekin, Filipp Isaevich

  Ivanov, Anatoly, 655, 667, 834, 985

  Ivanov, Boris Ivanovich, xiv; apartment of, 383–85, 389, 492, 834–35, 985; exile of, 47–48, 50–51, 53; government assignments of, 146, 150, 383–84, 835; New Year’s celebrations and, 525; photographs of, 51, 384, 933, 935; privileges requested by, 222–23, 384; public holidays and, 532, 534; on Stalin’s death, 933–35

  Ivanov, Vladimir (“Volodia”), 665–68, 713, 921, 985

  Ivanov, Vsevolod, 247, 280; Armored Train, 195, 203, 281; Colored Winds, 197, 202, 204; Partisans, 201, 281

  Ivanova, Galina (“Galya”), 667, 834, 933, 985

  Ivanova (Zlatkina), Elena Yakovlevna, 384, 499, 525–26, 532, 834–35, 935, 985

  Ivan Smirnov and Sons’ Vodka factory. See Smirnov and Sons’ Vodka Factory

  Ivan III, Tsar, 5

  Ivchenko, Anna Vladimirovna, 391–92, 985

  Ivchenko, Elsa, 392, 985

  Ivchenko, Emelian Mikhailovich, 391–92, 528, 813–14, 985

  Ivchenko, Vladimir, 813, 985

  Izeckman, Sam (“Senia”), 600–601

  Jackson, Andrew, 96

  Jacobins, 105, 114, 180, 274, 954

  Jamaica, 101

  Jasienski, Bruno: Man Changes His Skin, 363–65, 368–69

  Jaspers, Karl, 75

  Jehovah’s Witnesses, 98, 273

  Jesus, 82–87, 89, 97, 104, 115, 228–29, 273, 953

  Jewish Question (Marx), 109–10, 112–13

  Jews and Judaism: millenarianism of, 77–82, 88, 104, 180, 711; as revolutionaries, 23, 109, 484, 486–87

  Job (biblical story), 59, 78, 847, 850, 860

  Johnson, Phillip E., 75

  Johnson, Samuel, 643

  Josephus (Flavius), 81, 918

  Junius, Johannes, 703–5

  Kabakov, Ivan, 470, 538–39, 738

  Kadochnikov, Artemy Mikhailovich, 860

  Kagan. See Litovsky (Kagan), Osaf; Mironov (Kagan), Lev

  Kaganovich, Lazar, 362, 483, 719, 723, 728, 737–38, 755, 793–94, 797, 844, 846

  Kalinin Club, 393, 615, 648

  Kalmanson, Labori Gilelevich. See Lelevich, G.

  Kamanin, Nikolai, 592

  Kamenev, Lev, 54, 295, 299, 467, 715, 719, 817

  Kamensky, Vasily, 68–69

  Kaminsky, Grigory, 439, 737, 747, 754, 863

  Kanatchikov, Semen: accusations against/trial of, 784; exile of, 47, 306; family support of, 40; government assignments of, 184, 306; political awakening of, 20, 39, 42; in prison, 44; Soviet literature and, 55–56, 284, 306; on “the Swamp,” 9–10, 14–15; worker origins of, 486; on workers’ family support, 41–42

  Kangelari, Valentin, 754, 809

  Kaplan, Fannie, 158–59

  Kaplan, Rakhil Izrailevna. See Gaister (Kaplan), Rakhil Izrailevna

  Kaplan, Veniamin, 522, 548, 830

  Karabaeva, Maria Aleksandrovna.
See Shaburova (Karabaeva), Maria Aleksandrovna

  Karpov, Lev Yakovlevich, 216, 243

  Karpov, Viktor, 790

  Karutsky, V. V., 429–30

  Kashketin-Skomorovsky, Efim, 870

  Kataev, Ivan, 842

  Kataev, Valentin: Time, Forward!, 363–66, 369, 373, 671

  Katsnelson, Z. B., 515–16

  Kaverin, Fedor Nikolaevich, 395–405, 462–65, 610, 616–17, 661–62, 664, 837, 933–35

  Kaverin, Veniamin: The Two Captains, 896, 954

  Kazakhstan, 310–12, 428–35

  Kedrov, Mikhail, 235, 383, 441

  Kedrova-Didrikil, Olga Avgustovna, 441

  Kerensky, Aleksandr, 125

  Kerzhentsev (Lebedev), Platon Mikhailovich: apartment of, 380–81, 389, 985; arrest of, 802; civilizing process and, 277–78, 344; on Communism, 298; dacha stays of, 549; death of, 936; government assignments of, 185–86, 381, 509; leisure entertainments of, 510, 524; on Lenin, 219; memory/ritual and, 192–93; personality of, 611; photographs of, 381, 820; in prison, 44; reading and study by, 31, 514; Soviet literature/arts and, 284, 288; on trials/purges, 819; Voronsky and, 55, 306

  Kerzhentseva, Maria Mikhailovna, 381, 985

  Kerzhentseva, Natalia, 381, 491, 985

  Khalatov, Artemy Bagratovich, 276–77, 382–83, 389, 457–59, 488–89, 521–22, 546, 754, 791, 863, 986

  Khalatova, Svetlana, 382, 791, 986

  Kharitoneniko (Pavel Ivanovich) mansion, 15, 389–90

  Khatskevich, A. I., 488

  Khatskevich, Lydia, 500

  Khatskevich, Zaria, 888, 890

  Khmelev, Nikolai, 533

  Khmelnitsky, Artem, 879

  Khodorovsky, Iosif, 162, 167, 624, 774

  Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeevich, 409, 425, 484, 496–97, 524, 561, 699, 808, 925, 934, 969, 986

  Khrushcheva (Kukharchuk), Nina Petrovna, 409, 986

  kindergarten (House of Government), 482, 648

  kingdom of freedom, 36, 42, 54, 58, 115–17, 147, 291

  Kinoroman, 398–99, 401–2

  kinship patronage networks, 554

  Kirillov (Averky) mansion, 7–8, 319, 389

  Kirov, Sergei, 301, 466, 470–72, 481, 614, 684, 686, 699–701, 713, 715, 914

  Kirpichnikov, Feliks, 879

  Kirshon, V.: Korenkovshchina, 268

  Kisis, Elina, 390, 445, 489, 502, 517

  Kliachko, Vera Semenovna. See Rabicheva (Kliachko), Vera Semenovna

  Klintsova, Anna Zinovievna, 889

  Knorin, Vilgelm, 797

  Kobulov, B. Z., 654

  Kobulova, Lelia, 654

  Kogan, Sasha, 894

  Kolchak, Alexander, 160

  Kolosova, Zinaida. See Granovskaia (Kolosova), Zinaida