Nerkagi, Anna, 210–13
Nicholas I, Tsar, 79–81, 84, 112, 119, 149
Nicholas II, Tsar: abdication, 152; Bloody Sunday, 150–1; burial site of Romanov family, 168–75, 170; coins, 89; defeat in Russo-Japanese War, 128; family group, 153; house arrest in Tobolsk, 56–7, 152–3, 154, 157, 164–5, 330; image with halo, 230n; imprisonment in Ekaterinburg, 56, 157–8, 163–4, 190; murder of, 158, 160–3; murder of Romanov family, 158–9, 160–3; name, 6, 150–1; Pacific railway, 192; Rasputin’s influence, 151–2
Nikolaevsk-on-Amur, 128–9
Nikolskoye, 303, 317–18
Nixon, Richard M., 267
Norwid, Cyprian Kamil, 118
Novosibirsk (Novonikolaevsk): air travel, 187; Conservatory, 245, 272; Grotrian-Steinweg upright piano, 249, 253–5, 257, 309, 345–51; Leningrad Philharmonic evacuation to, 237, 243–5; Lomatchenko family, 250, 250–3, 334, 345–6, 349; name, 7; Nicholas Roerich Museum, 197n; Nixon’s visit, 267; Opera and Ballet Theatre, 238–40, 239, 242–3, 244, 246, 247–9, 253, 265, 346; Philharmonic, 245, 246, 264; pianos, 249, 253–4, 265, 272, 309; search for Leningrad Philharmonic concert grand piano, 245–6, 309; travel from, 180, 347; travel to, 197, 270, 351; wartime factories, 239–40; wartime storage of artworks and musical instruments, 240–3, 241, 243, 244
Nyaruy, Semion, 213–16, 351
Ob, River, 49, 207, 217, 247, 259, 285
Odgerel, see Sampilnorov
Okhotsk, Sea of: arrival at, 222; crossing, 224–5, 232, 288, 333; fishing, 318; Kuril Islands, 288; piano journeys, 68, 232, 288–9; travelling to, 73, 224, 288; weather, 16, 223, 312
Old Believers: Book of the Apocalypse, 110, 117; history, 108–9, 240; pianos, 108, 110, 185, 188; Siberian communities, 43, 109–10, 117, 299
Omsk, 65, 113, 114, 191
Orkhon Valley, 32, 34, 93, 347, 350
Orlov, Grigory, 60
Païsiello, Giovanni, 60–1, 61
Park, Sooyong, 40
Pasternak, Boris, 182, 268, 290
Paul I, Tsar, 60, 78
Peel, Helen, 209
Peskov, Vasily, 299, 300, 301
Peter I, Tsar (the Great), 18, 48, 55
Peter III, Tsar, 58–9
Petrograd: name, 7; Revolution, 153–5; Romanov family, 152, 159, 164; Soviet, 152; see also Leningrad, Saint Petersburg Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky: arrival, 290; city, 292, 293–4; Demidoff’s shooting party, 297; Ibach grand piano, 291, 296–8, 298, 299, 317; music college, 299; US expedition (1865), 295; voyage from, 305; weather, 290, 292–3
Petrovsky Zavod, 83–4, 85
Pig’s Meadow, 169–71, 173–4
Piotrowski, Rufin, 116
Pleyel, Marie, 64–5
Pleyel pianos, 28
Poggio, Alessandro, 84n
Poltava, Battle of (1709), 54
Potanin, Grigory, 98–9, 107
Potanina, Aleksandra, 98–9
Potemkin, Prince Grigoriy, 60–2
Preston, Thomas, 190–1
Primorskii piano, 300
Prokofiev, Sergei, 155
Pushkin, Alexander, 81, 82–3, 102, 129
Putin, Vladimir, 230n, 286
Rachmaninoff, Sergei, 28, 155, 245
Radishchev, Aleksandr, 19–20
Railway 501 (Salekhard-Igarka), 216–21
Rasputin, Grigory, 151–2
Rasputin, Valentin, 339–40
Raupach, Hermann, 60
Red October pianos, 66, 166, 223, 229; see also Becker
Reed, John, 153–4
Remezov, Semion, 48–9, 319
Richter, Sviatoslav, 264, 283–5, 324–5, 337, 341
Rikord, Lyudmila, 288–9, 291
Rikord, Pyotr, 288–9
Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai, 28, 119, 138–9
Roerich, Helena, 179–80, 186, 188, 197
Roerich, Nicholas, 179–80, 183, 187–8, 197, 325
Rönisch, Carl, 277
Rönisch pianos, 277–8
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 321
Rösler piano, 319–20
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 19, 114
Rozen, Baron, 102
Rubinstein, Anton, 28, 119, 136, 278
Rubinstein, Nikolai, 28, 121, 352
Russian Civil War (1918–1922): aftermath, 197; Altai region, 178; brutality and chaos, 103, 191; end, 194; European trade embargos, 155; Kiakhta massacres, 104; pianos, 28, 89; ‘Reds’ and ‘Whites’, 5, 104, 252; refugees, 193
Russian Federation, 5, 93, 214
Russian Orthodox Church: architecture, 53; emigration to Siberia, 91; in Harbin, 199; musical tradition, 58, 213; Old Believers, 43, 108; Romanov debate, 171, 230n; Siberian indigenous people, 44, 212–13; status today, 286
Russian revolutions: Decembrist Revolt (1825), 77–8, 79–80, 112, 149–50; (1905), 7, 138–9, 151; (1917), 7, 28, 139, 150, 152–7, 240, 326
Russo-Japanese War (1905), 128, 135, 150, 192, 330
Ryabov, Geli, 169
Ryleev, Kondraty, 80
Said, Edward, 326
St Petersburg: architecture, 41, 193, 200; Bloody Sunday (1905), 4, 138, 151; Conservatory, 119, 121, 135, 157; Decembrist Revolt (1825), 77–8, 79–80, 81, 114, 149; European culture, 18–19, 59; food queue (1992), 287; foundation, 18; Hermitage Museum, 18n, 149–50, 151; Imperial Academy of Fine Arts, 60; Imperial Academy of Sciences, 72; Imperial Russian Musical Society, 119; Liszt’s performances, 9, 24–6, 41, 119, 121; musical circles, 62; name, 7; Pavlovsk Palace, 21–2; piano performances, 23, 24–6, 63–5, 123; piano-making industry, 25–6, 27, 62, 63, 65, 121, 271, 277, 331; piano restoration, 88n; piano teaching, 23, 56, 60, 62, 64, 227; pianos, 21–2, 23, 25–6, 27, 28; Revolution, 28; State Academic Capella, 278; Tsarskoe Selo palace, 152; see also Leningrad, Petrograd
Sakhalin Island: capital, 128; Chekhov’s visit, 127–30, 132–5, 133, 136–9, 145–6, 339–40; history, 128; musical culture, 142; penal colony, 127, 129, 132–5, 133, 137, 137–8; piano playing, 135–6; pianos, 134–5
Salekhard: music, 208, 211, 218; Nenets composer, 213–16, 351; railway, 216–17, 220–1; settlement, 207; theatre, 216, 218; travel, 207; weather, 207
Sampilnorov, Odgerel: author’s search for a piano for her, 34, 36, 90, 183, 345–6; career, 32–3, 349, 350; family background, 34, 35; friendship with author, 32, 34; need for piano, 33–4, 36; patron, 32–3, 36, 346; piano delivered to her, 346–8; piano playing, 32–3, 36, 90, 93, 348, 349, 350–1
Sandburg, Carl, 236
Sanguszko, Prince Roman, 112
Sarti, Giuseppe, 60
Schiltberger, Johann, 12
Schröder pianos, 158, 197, 249
Schumann, Clara, 65
Schumann, Robert, 113–14, 281
Scott, Captain Robert, 130–2
Scriabin, Aleksandr, 182
Shalamov, Varlam, 77, 232, 233, 234
Sharav, Byambasuren, 348
Shostakovich, Dmitri: fear of arrest, 204; grandfather, 118; Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, 203, 236; Seventh (Leningrad) Symphony, 236–8, 244–5, 273–4; Stalin’s view of, 202–3
Shulzhenko, Klavdiya, 274
Siberia: climate, 13, 15–16, 184, 272; colonization by Cossacks, 45, 54; dogs, 130–1, 132; exiles, 80, 112, 114–15; fur trade, 45, 46, 313n, 314, 316, 321, 341; indigenous cultures, 14, 34, 35, 43–5, 44, 46, 51, 83, 205–6, 210–13, 315, 321; intelligentsia, 102, 114–15, 200, 259; migrants, 91, 110, 118, 177–8, 204–5, 251; musical culture, 49–50, 122–3, 194–5, 285; name, 12; natural resources, 14, 15, 17, 30, 128, 139, 177, 180, 198, 208, 218, 225, 232, 259, 285; pianos, 17–18, 22, 29–31, 65–6, 89–90, 121, 272; population, 43–4, 204, 206; railways, 216–18, see also Trans-Siberian; religion, 43–5, see also Russian Orthodox Church; Soviet Gulag system, 4–5, 16, 76–7, 204, 216, 219; taiga, 45, 48, 82, 85, 95, 109, 114, 116, 145, 248, 304; territory, 3–4, 13, 38–9; tigers, 40, 45, 47–8, 50, 66, 324, 344; travel, 1–2, 16, 69–73, 70, 71, 187, 207, 217; Tsarist penal exile system, 4, 13–14, 16–17, 19–20, 51, 55, 76, 115–16, 295; universities, 102, 117, 120,
252, 271; wildlife, 39, 40, 43–9, 304–7, 344
Simushir Island, 322–3
Smidt & Wegener piano, 89
Snow, Captain Henry James, 320
Sokolov, Nikolai, 158, 159, 168, 171, 191
Soloveychik, Simon, 264
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr: account of Magadan Theatre performance, 228, 230, 231; descriptions of labour camps, 16, 17, 39, 268; The Gulag Archipelago, 16, 17, 39, 147; One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, 268; Prussian Nights, 256; quoted, 145, 147, 226, 256
Sonka the Golden Hand, 133
Soviet-Afghan War, 73
Soviet Siberia, 244
Soviet Union (USSR): atheist regime, 75; Brezhnev’s policies, 267, 268; community ethic, 126; Czech invasion, 269; dissolution, 30, 40, 46, 145, 233, 286–8; food queues, 286, 287; glasnost, 285, 287; Gorbachev’s policies, 285–6; Gulags, 4, 16, 76–7, 224–7, 229, 232–4, 268; Harbin residents repatriated, 197; indigenous people, 205–6, 211, 315; Jewish Autonomous Region, 342–3; Khrushchev’s policies, 266–7; Kuril Islands, 321; Leningrad Siege, 235–8, 274; literacy rates, 234; Ministry of Arts, 156; music policies, 203–4, 285–6, 287; musical education, 17, 29, 66–7, 253, 299; name, 5; perestroika, 5, 66, 89, 160, 188, 232, 273, 285–6, 290, 294, 317, 329; piano-making, 17, 29, 66; population movement, 204; presentation of Romanov executions, 160–3, 161, 162, 163, 171; Putin’s policies, 286; regional costumes, 142; Richter’s tour, 283–5; Sakhalin, 144n; scientific research, 258–60; spacecraft, 181, 182; Stalin’s policies, 44, 203, 205; wartime evacuation of cultural treasures, 240–3, 241, 243; wartime looting, 256; wartime use of music, 236, 243–5; Western Front, 29
Stalin, Joseph: birthday celebrations, 250; Bolshoi Theatre attendance, 202–3; collectivization, 203; convict ships, 76, 223–5; death, 109, 217, 258, 266; genetics policy, 259; labour camps, 39, 76–7, 204, 232, 234, 266–7; musical policies, 203–4; persecution of Buryats, 34; portrait, 214; railway construction, 216–18; religious policies, 34, 75; secret police, 118, 203; Siberian Colosseum, 238–9; Siberian exile, 16; statues, 230; territory regained from Japanese, 128, 319; Terror, 40, 204, 286; treatment of indigenous people, 205, 212; treatment of kulaks, 252
Stasov, Vladimir, 24–5, 65
Steinbeck, John, 36
Steinway, Henry (Steinweg), 27, 255, 279
Steinway: concert grand, 245, 246, 249, 265, 309; pianos, 17, 249
Steinway & Sons, 255
Steinway Academy, Hamburg, 251, 346
Steinweg, Theodor, 255
Steller, George, 313
Stephan, John J., 339
Stürzwage, Léopold (father and son), 325
Stürzwage pianos, 50–1, 278; in Khabarovsk, 309, 325, 326–9, 327, 352; in Tobolsk, 331–2, 334, 352
Surikov, Vasily, 240, 241
Susuman, 234, 333
Szaramowicz, Gustaw, 115
Szymanowska, Maria, 64, 113
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr, 18, 28, 36, 41, 119, 233
Thalberg, Sigismond, 64
Thoreau, Henry David, 309–10
Timasheff, Nicholas, 203
Timm, Georg Wilhelm, 149–50
Timofeevich, Ermak, 54, 332
Tobolsk: architecture, 53; Erard piano, 55–6, 308n; exiles, 54–5; Governor’s House, 56, 152, 154, 330; history, 53–4, 55, 56–7, 76, 329–32; jail, 56, 64; map making, 48, 319; musical culture, 54–5, 56–7, 58, 66, 67, 86; penal labour system, 54–5, 113; pianos, 55, 164, 328, 329, 331; Romanov piano, 56–7, 153, 164; seminary, 53–4, 55–6, 57, 67, 332, 334; Stürzwage baby grand, 329, 331–2, 334, 352; Tsar and family kept under house arrest, 56–7, 152–3, 154, 157, 164–5, 330
Tolstoy, Leo, 12, 59, 82, 84
Tomashinskiy, Grigory and Kamila, 121
Tompkinson upright piano, 284
Tomsk: Bechstein baby grand, 124–6, 125; House of Science, 118, 123; Imperial Russian Musical Society, 65, 119, 121, 352; library, 122; museum of repression, 117–18; musical culture, 96, 119–20, 121, 122–3; penal labour system, 113, 115; Polish connections, 118; population, 120; university, 117, 120, 252; Zumpe piano, 242
Trans-Siberian Railway: advertisement, 27; carriages transported by ship, 94; civil war, 191; construction, 71, 97, 187, 209; eastern terminus, 224; music, 194; Romanov family journey to Siberia, 152; route, 51, 104; tourist trains, 152; towns along, 51, 66, 277
Trotsky, Leon, 4, 16, 139
Turgenev, Nikolai, 80n Tyumen: music school, 214, 351; oil industry, 342; pianos, 66, 214, 216, 331, 351; prison, 330
Tyutchev, Fyodor, 337
Uglich bell, 76
Ukok Princess, 184–5
Ulan-Ude, 93, 284, 334, 352
Ungern-Sternberg, Baron von, 104–6, 105
Ural Mountains: boundary of Siberia, 1, 2–3, 13, 38; civil war, 191; Cossack incursion, 45, 54; Great Siberian Trakt opened, 69; Gulag, 261; music east of, 65, 67, 82; polar circle, 205, 207; prehistory, 39; refugees, 29, 43; rivers, 167; Romanov family’s fate, 157, 159, 167, 169, 174; search for Tsar’s last piano, 172, 174; Uglich bell crossing, 76
USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics), see Soviet Union Ust-Koksa, 178–9, 180, 185, 186, 188
Ust-Nera, 233–4
Uzala, Dersu, 43, 44
Varpakhovsky, Leonid, 227
Verne, Jules, 74
Vertinsky, Aleksandr, 195
Vladimirova, Yelena, 227
Volkonsky, Elena, 114
Volkonsky, Maria: appearance, 82, 85, 100; children, 82, 84, 85–6, 114; family background, 82, 87; husband, 78; Irkutsk house, 86, 87; piano, 77, 82–3, 84, 85, 87, 91, 102; return from Siberia, 92; Siberian exile, 82–7, 85, 91, 211
Volkonsky, Prince Sergei: Decembrist rebel, 78, 95; Siberian exile, 82–4, 85, 85–6, 86
Volkonsky, Zinaida, 82–3, 100
Voltaire, 41, 59
Wallace, Henry, 225, 226
Wilmot, Martha and Catherine, 71
Wilson, Helen, 342
Wilton, Robert, 174
Witte, Sergei, 2
Wrangell, Elisabeth von, 95–6
Yakutsk, 16, 226, 310
Yamaha pianos, 33, 284, 348, 350
Yamal Peninsula: Gulag musicians, 216–18, 219; musical education, 205–6; pianos, 208–9, 214–16, 220; Railway 501 (Salekhard-Igarka), 216–21; travel, 207–8, 208
Yankicha Island, 321–2
Yeltsin, Boris, 29–30, 171
Yenisei River, 49, 209, 284, 340, 347, 353
Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, 128, 129, 334
Zaderatsky, Vsevolod, 226–7
Zaleskaya, Yadviga, 123
Zhdanov, Andrei, 241–2
Zumpe, Johann, 21
Zumpe piano anglais (1774), 21–2, 242
About the Author
Sophy Roberts is a British writer whose work focuses on remote travel. She began her career assisting the writer Jessica Mitford, was an English scholar at Oxford University and trained in journalism at Columbia University. She regularly contributes to the Financial Times and Condé Nast Traveler. The Lost Pianos of Siberia is her first book.
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