Figures in bold refer to people and books quoted. Musical works by composers are listed under the composer’s name, written works under title and author. Please also refer to the Biographical Notes section.

  1. About All That Is Dear (Vecheslova) 1
  2. ‘About Children and Other Things’ (Sabinina) 1
  3. ‘About Myself and Others’ (Serebryakova) 1
  4. About Opera and Myself (Welter) 1
  5. Admoni, V. 1
  6. ‘Adolescence and Youth’ (Bogdanov-Berezovsky) 1, 2
  7. The Adventures of Octyabrina (film) 1
  8. Afanasyev, Boris 1, 2
  9. Afinogenov, Alexander 1
  10. Akhmatova, Anna (Anna Gorenko) 1, 2n;
    1. self-protection tactics 1;
    2. expelled from Writers’ Union 1, 2;
    3. and Lydia Chukovskaya 1;
    4. and DDS 1, 2;
    5. DDS’s reaction to her death 1;
    6. and Tsvetayeva 1;
    7. ‘Music’ 1, 2
  11. Akhmeteli 1
  12. Akimov, Nikolai 1, 2, 3n
  13. Akop’yan, Levon see Hakobian, Levon
  14. Akumov, Victor 1n
  15. Aldeburgh, Suffolk 1, 2
  16. Alexander II, Tsar of Russia 1
  17. Alexander Nevsky Monastery 1
  18. Alexander Vasiliyevich Gauk: Memoirs, Selected Articles, Reminiscences of his Contemporaries  (ed. Gauk et al.) 1, 2, 3
  19. Alexandrov (Minister of Culture) 1
  20. Alexandrov, Alexander 1
  21. Alikhanov, Abraam 1
  22. Alikhanyan, Artyom 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
  23. All-Union Association of Proletarian Musicians (VAPM) see Russian Association of Proletarian Musicians (RAPM)
  24. All-Union Competitions: for Conductors 1;
    1. for Instruments 1;
    2. for Performing Musicians 1
  25. All-Union Radio and Television Orchestra 1n
  26. Alyokhin (chess player) 1, 2
  27. Amintayeva, Aza 1
  28. Anapa, Caucasus 1n, 2
  29. Andrei Melitonovich Balanchivadze: Collection of Articles and Materials (ed. Tsurtsumiya) 1
  30. Andreeva, A. 1
  31. Anisimov, Pyotr 1
  32. Anisimova, Zinaida 1
  33. anti-semitism see Jews
  34. Apollinaire, Guillaume 1, 2;
    1. ‘In the Santé Jail’ 1
  35. Apostolov, Pavel: accuses DDS 1;
    1. parodied in Rayok 1, 2n;
    2. death 1, 2, 3
  36. Aragon, Louis 1

  1. Aragvi Restaurant, Moscow 1
  2. Arapov, Boris 1
  3. Arensky (composer): Piano Trio 1
  4. Arkhangel’sk 1, 2
  5. Arkhangelskoye Sanatorium, Moscow 1
  6. Arnshtam, Leo (Lyolka, Lyolik):
    1. DDS’s friendship with 1;
    2. and Meyerhold’s Theatre 1;
    3. influence on DDS 1;
    4. and DDS’s second period of disgrace 1;
    5. and DDS’s speech of self-criticism 1n;
    6. films by 1;
    7. film scores written for 1;
    8. ‘Immortality’ 1
  7. Arnshtam family 1
  8. ‘An Artist Should Never Marry’
    1. (Sabinina) 1
  9. Asafiev, Boris: at the Leningrad Conservatoire 1;
    1. and Fogt Circle 1;
    2. relationship with DDS 1, 2;
    3. influence 1;
    4. and DDS’s First Symphony 1;
    5. and Berg 1n;
    6. and Prokofiev 1;
    7. DDS’s feelings for 1;
    8. defends The Nose 1;
    9. and Lady Macbeth 1, 2;
    10. and Decree ‘On the Opera The Great Friendship’ 1
  10. Aseyev, Nikolai 1
  11. Ashkenazy, Vladimir 1
  12. Association for Contemporary Music (ASM) 1, 2
  13. Association for Real Art (OBERIU) 1, 2
  14. Atovmyan, Levon: background 1;
    1. on Lady Macbeth 1, 2;
    2. and DDS’s Suite for Variety Stage Orchestra 1;
    3. on Nina 1;
    4. tries to organize DDS concert 1;
    5. dismissal and exile 1, 2;
    6. and DDS being offered money by Stalin 1;
    7. and DDS’s Fourth Symphony 1;
    8. on Vishnevskaya as Katerina Izmailova 1n
  15. Aurora cinema, Nevsky Prospect, Leningrad see Piccadilly cinema 
  1. Babel, Isaac 1
  2. ‘Babi Yar’ (Evtushenko) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7;
    1. revised version 1
  3. Babi Yar massacre 1, 2, 3
  4. Bach, Johann Sebastian: bicentenary celebrations 1
  5. WORKS: Chromatic Fantasy (Kodaly transcription) 1;
    1. Concerto for Three Harpsichords (Pianos) 1;
    2. Forty-Eight Preludes and Fugues 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
    3. Sonata in B minor for Violin and Harpsichord 1;
    4. Sonata in C minor for Violin and Harpsichord 1
  6. Balanchivadze, Andréi 1, 2
  7. Balasanyan, Sergei 1
  8. Balkashin, Yury 1
  9. ‘Ballet Falsehood’ (Pravda article 6 February 1936) 1
  10. Barinova, Mariya 1
  11. Barshai, Nina 1
  12. Barshai, Rudolf 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
  13. Bartók, Béla 1
  14. Barvikha Sanatorium, Moscow 1
  15. Bashkirov, Dmitri 1
  16. Basner, Veniamin: relations with DDS 1, 2, 3;
    1. on DDS’s near-arrest 1;
    2. and DDS’s First Violin Concerto 1;
    3. and Rayok 1;
    4. attendance at DDS rehearsals 1;
    5. on Seven Romances on Poems by Alexander Blok 1;
    6. on DDS’s composition process 1
  17. Batumi (Black Sea resort) 1
  18. Baturin, Alexander 1, 2

  1. BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) Russian Service 1, 2
  2. The Bedbug (Mayakovsky) 1, 2, 3, 4
  3. Beethoven, Ludwig van 1, 2
  4. WORKS: Grosse Fugue 1;
    1. Piano Sonata no. 5 in C minor 1;
    2. Piano Sonata no. 14 in C# minor (‘Moonlight’) 1;
    3. Piano Sonata no. 21 (‘Waldstein’) 1;
    4. Piano Sonata no. 29 in Bb major (‘Hammerclavier’) 1;
    5. ‘Rage over a Lost Penny’ 1;
    6. Sonata in D minor 1n;
    7. Symphony no. 3 1, 2;
    8. Symphony no. 5 1, 2;
    9. Symphony no. 8 1;
    10. Symphony no. 9 1, 2, 3n
  5. Beethoven Quartet: performs DDS’s
    1. Piano Quintet 1, 2;
    2. premieres DDS’s Second Quartet 1;
    3. premieres DDS’s Third Quartet 1;
    4. disagreement with DDS 1;
    5. speed of playing 1;
    6. DDS’s loyalty to 1, 2, 3, 4;
    7. premieres DDS’s Ninth and Tenth Quartets 1, 2;
    8. changes in formation 1;
    9. working relationship with DDS 1;
    10. premieres DDS’s Eleventh Quartet 1;
    11. performs DDS’s Thirteenth Quartet for Britten and Pears 1, 2;
    12. and DDS’s Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Quartets 1
  6. Begiashvili, Soso 1
  7. Beizhin Meadow (film) 1
  8. Belinsky, Vissarion 1
  9. Belsky, Igor 1
  10. Bely (musician) 1
  11. Benditsky, Alexander 1
  12. Beregovsky, Moshe (Moisei) 1
  13. Berg, Alban 1
  14. Beriya, Lavrenti 1n, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
  15. Berlin: DDS’s first visit (1927) 1;
    1. DDS performs (1950) 1;
    2. premieres of DDS’s Thirteenth and Fourteenth Symphonies 1;
    3. Lady Macbeth production 1, 2;
    4. premiere of DDS’s Fifteenth Symphony 1
  16. Berlin, Alexander 1, 2
  17. Berlinsky, Valentin 1, 2
  18. Bestuzhev Courses for Women, St Petersburg 1, 2
  19. ‘Beyond the Frontiers of Past Years’ (Yudin) 1
  20. Bezymensky, Alexander: ‘To October’ 1, 2;
    1. The Shot 1
  21. The Birth of Komsomol Theatre (Maranchik) 1
  22. Bizet, Georges: Carmen 1, 2
  23. ‘The Black Monk’ (Chekhov) 1, 2
  24. Blanter, Matvei 1, 2
  25. Blaramberg, Pavel 1
  26. Blok, Alexander 1, 2, 3;
    1. DDS’s Seven Romances on Poems by Alexander Blok 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
  27. Bloody Sunday (St Petersburg massacre, 1905) 1
  28. Bobky (Dostoevsky) 1
  29. Bodaibo, Eastern Siberia 1
  30. Bogachova, Irina 1
  31. Bogdanov, Alexander 1
  32. Bogdanov-Berezovsky, Valerian 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7;
    1. ‘Adolescence and Youth’ 1, 2
  33. Bogorodinsky, D. K. 1
  34. Bogratian-Mukhlavskaya, Marina 1
  35. Bolshevo dacha 1, 2, 3

  1. Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow (GATOB):
    1. The Dam production 1;
    2. Lady Macbeth productions 1, 2;
    3. artists evacuated during war 1, 2;
    4. competition for new national anthem 1;
    5. Rite of Spring production 1;
    6. The Great Friendship production 1, 2;
    7. reluctance to stage DDS’s works 1, 2,
    8. long-lost Nose score found at 1
  2. Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra 1, 2, 3, 4
  3. Boni, V. A. 1
  4. Boris Mikhailovich Kustodiev (ed. Kapralov) 1
  5. Borisovsky, Vadim 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
    1. see also Beethoven Quartet
  6. Borodin Quartet (formerly Quartet of the Moscow Philharmonic) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
  7. Boston Symphony Orchestra 1
  8. Boulez, Pierre 1, 2, 3
  9. Braga, Gaetano: Serenata (Leggenda Valacca) 1
  10. Brahms, Johannes: Clarinet Quintet 1;
    1. symphonies 1
  11. ‘The Bratsk Hydro-Electric Station’ (Evtushenko) 1, 2
  12. The Breath of the Symphonist (Fanning) 1n
  13. Brecht, Bertolt 1;
    1. Galileo 1
  14. Brennecke, Ruth 1
  15. Brezhnev, Leonid 1, 2
  16. Bright Reel cinema, Leningrad 1
  17. Brik, Ilya 1
  18. Britten, Benjamin: Asafiev denounces 1;
    1. at British premiere of DDS’s Eighth Symphony 1;
    2. relations with DDS 1, 2, 3;
    3. and DDS’s Fourteenth Symphony 1;
    4. and consolation 1;
    5. DDS visits 1
  19. WORKS: Cello Symphony 1, 2;
    1. Death in Venice 1;
    2. Lacrimae 1;
    3. Michelangelo Sonnets 1;
    4. Piano Concerto 1;
    5. Prodigal Son 1;
    6. Third Suite for Cello Solo 1;
    7. War Requiem 1, 2;
    8. Winter Words 1
  20. Brodsky, Iosif 1, 2
  21. Bronstein (Trotsky’s son) 1, 2
  22. The Brothers Karamazov (Dostoevsky) 1
  23. Bruckner, Anton 1, 2
  24. Brumel, Valery 1
  25. Bruni, G. 1
  26. Bruni, Tatiana 1
  27. Bryushkov, Yuri 1n
  28. Bryusov (of Moscow Conservatoire) 1
  29. Budyonny, Simeon 1
  30. Bukovsky, Vladimir 1
  31. Bulgakov, Mikhail 1, 2;
    1. The Days of the Turbins 1
  32. Bulganin, Nikolai 1
  33. Bunin, Revol 1, 2, 3;
    1. String Quartet 1
  34. Burns, Robert 1;
    1. DDS’s Three Romances on Texts by Burns 1n, 2;
    2. ‘Macpherson before His Execution’ 1, 2;
    3. ‘O Wert Thou in the Cauld Blast’ 1
  35. Butsko, Yuri 1
  1. Cambridge: Corpus Christi College 1;
    1. King’s College Chapel 1
  2. A Captive of Time (Ivinskaya) 1n
  3. ‘Career’ (Evtushenko) 1, 2, 3, 4
  4. ‘The Carp’ (Oleinnikov) 1
  5. Central Committee Decrees, 1948:
    1. On Formalism in Music 1;
    2. On the Opera The Great Friendship 1, 2;
    3. On Zoshchenko and Akhmatova 1, 2

  1. Central Committee Decrees, 1958:
    1. On the Correction of Errors in the
    2. Evaluation of The Great
    3. Friendship, Bogdan Khmelnitsky
    4. and From All My Heart 1
  2. Central Co-operative Guild 1
  3. A Certain Art (Malko) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
  4. Chaplin, Charlie 1
  5. Chaplygin, N. P. 1
  6. Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich: DDS’s love of 1, 2, 3
  7. WORKS: ‘The Black Monk’ 1, 2;
    1. ‘Gusev’ 1;
    2. Ward Number Six 1
  8. Chekova-Knipper, Olga see Knipper-Chekova, Olga
  9. Cherimukhin, Misha 1
  10. ‘Chernosotintsy’ (reactionary, antisemitic group) 1
  11. Chernyshevsky, Nikolai 1
  12. Chesnakov, Vladimir 1n
  13. Chianreli, Mikhail 1
  14. Chopin, Fryderyk: Ballade in Ab major 1n;
    1. Ballade no. 1 2;
    2. Concerto no. 1 2;
    3. Funeral March 1;
    4. Polonaise in F# minor 1n;
    5. Preludes 1n 2;
    6. Studies 1n 2
  15. Chopin Piano Competition, Warsaw (1927) 1
  16. Choreographic Technical College 1
  17. ‘The Chronicle of Current Events’ 1
  18. Chukovskaya, Lydia 1, 2
  19. Chukovsky, Andrei (DDS’s grandson) 1
  20. Chukovsky, Boris 1
  21. Chukovsky, Evgeni (DDS’s son-in-law) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
  22. Chukovsky, Kornei 1, 2, 3n, 4
  23. Chukovsky, Nikolai (DDS’s grandson) 1
  24. Chukovsky, Nikolai (Kolya; Evgeni’s uncle) 1, 2
  25. Chulaki, Mikhail 1, 2, 3;
    1. ‘Today I Will Talk about Shostakovich’ 1
  26. Chyorny, Sasha (Alexander Glikberg) 1, 2
  27. Circle of Chamber Music 1
  28. Circle of Friends of Chamber Music 1, 2
  29. Circle for New Music 1, 2
  30. Cleveland Opera House 1
  31. Clutyens, André 1
  32. Coliseum cinema, Nevsky Prospect, Leningrad 1
  33. collectivization 1, 2, 3
  34. Committee for the Arts 1, 2
  35. Communist Party: DDS joins 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
  36. Communist Youth Organization see Komsomol
  37. Composers’ Plenum (March 1944) see Union of Composers
  38. Composers’ Retreats see House of Creativity
  39. Composers’ Union see Union of Composers
  40. Congress of Peace and Culture see World Peace Congress
  41. Constituent Assembly 1
  42. Constitutional Democrats see Kadet Party
  43. Copland, Aaron 1n
  44. Covent Garden, London 1
  45. Craft, Robert: Dialogues and a Diary 1
  46. ‘Creative Encounters’ (Gauk) 1n
  47. ‘The Creative Path of Shostakovich’ (Koval’) 1n
  48. Crime and Punishment (Dostoevsky) 1, 2
  49. Crimea: DDS holidays in 1, 2

  1.  Cultural and Scientific Congress for World Peace see World Peace Congress
  2. cultural revolution 1, 2
  3. Czechoslovakia, Soviet invasion of (1968) 1, 2, 3
  1. D. D. Shostakovich: Anthology of Articles for His 90th Birthday (ed. Kovnatskaya) 1, 2
  2. D. D. Shostakovich: Articles and Materials (ed. Shneerson) 1, 2
  3. ‘D. D. Shostakovich Reflected in His Letters to I. I. Sollertinsky’ (Mikheeva-Sollertinskaya) 1
  4. Daniel, Yuli 1
  5. Danilevich, Lev 1;
    1. Dmitri Shostakovich 1
  6. Dankeyevich, Konstantin 1
  7. Dansker, O. L.: S. A. Samosud: Articles, Reminiscences, Letters 1
  8. Dargomyzhsky, Alexander: ‘The Worm’ 1
  9. Davidenko, Alexander 1, 2
  10. Davydov, Karl 1
  11. Days of British Music (1971) 1
  12. The Days of the Turbins (Bulgakov) 1
  13. Dead Souls (Gogol) 1
  14. Debussy, Claude 1;
    1. La Mer 1
  15. Dedyukhin, Alexander 1, 2, 3, 4
  16. dekulakization campaign 1, 2
  17. Delman, Vladimir 1, 2
  18. Delvig, Anton 1
  19. Demichev, Pyotr 1
  20. Demidova, P. 1
  21. Denisov, Edison: relations with DDS 1;
    1. on reception of From Jewish Poetry 1;
    2. on DDS and Beethoven Quartet 1;
    3. DDS talks to about Fifth Quartet 1;
    4. rise to fame 1;
    5. on DDS and politics 1, 2;
    6. letters to 1, 2, 3, 4
  22. WORKS: ‘Le Soleil des Incas’ 1;
    1. La Vie en Rouge 1
  23. Derzayeva, Irina (Sollertinsky’s first wife) 1
  24. Deshevov, Vladimir 1
  25. Detskoye Selo (formerly Tsarskoye Selo) 1
  26. Dialogues and a Diary (Stravinsky and Craft) 1
  27. Diderichs, Lyonya 1
  28. Dilizhan see House of Creativity, Dilizhan
  29. Discourses on Conducting (Khaikin) 1, 2
  30. dissident movement, rise of the 1
  31. Dmitri Shostakovich (ed. Danilevich) 1
  32. Dmitri Shostakovich (Meyer) 1
  33. Dmitri Shostakovich: The Life and Background of a Soviet Composer (Seroff and Galli-Shohat) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
  34. ‘Dmitri Shostakovich:
    1. Reminiscences and Reflections’ (Zhitomirsky) 1
  35. ‘Dmitri Shostakovich: We Live in a Time of Stormy Passions and Actions’ (Khentova) 1, 2
  36. Dmitri Shostakovich in Letters and Documents 1, 2
  37. Dmitriev, Vladimir 1, 2, 3
  38. Dobrokhotov, Boris 1, 2
  39. Dobrushin, I. 1n, 2
  40. Dobrynin, M. 1
  41. Dobrzhints, I. 1n
  42. Dobuzhinsky family 1
  43. Dr Zhivago (Pasternak) 1
  44. Doctors’ Plot (1953) 1
  45. dodecaphony 1
  47. Dolezhal, Professor Nikolai 1, 2
  48. Dolgopolov, Mikhail 1
  49. Dolmatovsky, Evgeni 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
    1. DDS’s Five Romances on Verses of Dolmatovsky 1;
    2. DDS’s Four Songs on Words by Dolmatovsky 1, 2
  50. Dolukhanova, Zara 1, 2
  51. Dombrovsky, Jaroslav 1
  52. Doniyakh (chief conductor of MALEGOT) 1
  53. Dorliak, Nina 1
  54. Dorliak, Xenia 1
  55. Dostoevsky, Feodor 1;
    1. Bobky 1;
    2. The Brothers Karamazov 1;
    3. Crime and Punishment 1, 2;
    4. From the House of the Dead 1, 2;
    5. The Meek and Oppressed 1;
    6. The Possessed 1, 2, 3, 4;
    7. A Raw Youth 1;
    8. AWriter’s Diary 1
  56. Downes, Olin 1
  57. Dressel, Erwin: Armer Columbus 1
  58. Druskin, Mikhail 1n, 2, 3, 4n, 5;
    1. Sketches, Articles, Notes 1
  59. Druzhinin, Fyodor 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
    1. see also Beethoven Quartet
  60. DSCH publishing house 1
  61. Dubcek, Alexander 1
  62. Dubinsky, Rostislav 1, 2
  63. Dulova, Vera 1, 2
  64. Duma 1
  65. Dunayevsky, Isaac Osipovich 1, 2n, 3
  66. ‘During the Days of “the Thaw”’ (Sabinina) 1
  67. Dzerzhinsky, Ivan: Quiet Flows the Don 1, 2, 3
  1. Edinburgh Festival (1962) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
  2. Edkind, E. 1
  3. Efros, A. M. 1
  4. Ehrenburg, Ilya 1;
    1. The Thaw 1n, 2
  5. Eisenstein, Sergei 1, 2
  6. El-Registan, G. 1
  7. Elagin, Yuri: The Taming of the Arts 1
  8. Eliasberg, Karl 1
  9. Ensemble of the Song and Dance of the NKVD 1
  10. Epilogues (Zhukova) 1, 2n, 3, 4
  11. Erdman, Robert 1
  12. Ermakov, I.: Sketches for an Analysis of Gogol’s Work 1
  13. Ermler, Friedrich 1
  14. Esenin, Sergei 1
  15. Eshpai, Yakov 1
  16. Etkina, Rosa 1n
  17. ‘European’ Hotel, Leningrad see
    1. Evropeiskaya Hotel
  18. Evening Moscow 1
  19. Evgrafov, L. 1
  20. Evlakhov, Orest 1
  21. Evropeiskaya Hotel, Leningrad 1, 2, 3
  22. Evtushenko, Evgeni: background and popularity 1;
    1. DDS on 1
  23. WORKS: ‘Babi Yar’ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7; 8;
    1. ‘The Bratsk Hydro-Electric Station’ 1, 2;
    2. ‘Career’ 1, 2, 3, 4;
    3. ‘The Execution of Stepan Razin’ 1;
    4. ‘Fears Are Dying in Russia’ 1, 2;
    5. ‘Humour’ 1, 2, 3;
    6. ‘Reminiscences of Shostakovich and his Thirteenth Symphony’ 1;
    7. ‘A Second Birth’ 1
  24. ‘The Execution of Stepan Razin’ (Evtushenko) 1
  1. Factory of the Eccentric Actor (FEKS) 1, 2, 3, 4
  2. Fadeyev, Alexander 1, 2
  3. The Fallen and the Alive (Taganka Theatre production) 1
  4. Fanning, David: The Breath of the Symphonist 1n
  5. Fay, Laurel 1, 2n, 3n;
    1. Shostakovich and His World 1
  6. ‘Fears Are Dying in Russia’ (Evtushenko) 1, 2
  7. Fedin, Konstantin 1
  8. FEKS see Factory of the Eccentric Actor
  9. Fenster, B. 1
  10. Feona, A. 1
  11. Ferkelman, Arnold 1, 2, 3
  12. Ferré, Vladimir 1, 2
  13. Filonov, Pavel 1
  14. Finland: reference to in DDS’s Twelfth Symphony 1
  15. Fitzwilliam Quartet 1
  16. Five Year Plans 1
  17. Fleishman, Venjamin 1
  18. Flekser, Khaim Leybovich see Volynsky, Akim
  19. Fogt, Anna 1n
  20. Fogt Circle 1
  21. Foregger, Nikolai 1
  22. France, Anatole 1
  23. Frederiks, Dmitri (Mitya; DDS’s nephew) 1, 2;
    1. ‘Letters to Mother’ 1, 2, 3
  24. Fredericks, Mariya see Shostakovich, Mariya
  25. Fredericks, Vsevolod (Mariya’s husband; DDS’s brother-in-law) 1, 2
  26. Fried, Grigori 1;
    1. Music, Contacts and Destinies 1
  27. From the House of the Dead (Dostoevsky) 1, 2
  28. Front for Left Art (LEF) 1, 2
  29. Frunze, Kirghizia 1
  30. Furtseva, Ekaterina 1, 2, 3, 4
  31. Futurists 1
  1. Gagarin, Yuri 1, 2n, 3
  2. Galileo (Brecht) 1
  3. Galina: A Russian Story
    1. (Vishnevskaya) 1, 2, 3, 4
  4. Galizovsky, Kasyan 1
  5. Galli-Shohat, Nadezhda (Nadejda; née Kokaoulina; DDS’s aunt): education 1;
    1. and politics 1;
    2. Dmitri Shostakovich: The Life and Background of a Soviet Composer 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
  6. Galynin, Hermann 1, 2, 3;
    1. Epic Poem 1
  7. The Gamblers (Gogol) 1, 2, 3
  8. Gamov, Georgi 1
  9. Gaspra, Crimea 1
  10. GATOB see Bolshoi Theatre;
    1. Kirov Theatre;
    2. State Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet
  11. Gauk, Alexander 1, 2, 3n, 4n, 5n;
  12. ‘Creative Contacts’ 1n
  13. Gauk, L.: Alexander Vasiliyevich
    1. Gauk: Memoirs, Selected Articles, Reminiscences of his Contemporaries 1, 2, 3
  14. Gavrilova, Lenochka 1
  15. Gayamova, Zinaida (née Merzhanova) 1, 2, 3
  16. Gedike, Alexander 1
  17. George, Alan 1
  18. Gerenstein, Grigori 1n
  19. Gilels, Emil 1n
  20. Ginzburg, Alexander 1
  21. Ginzburg, Grigori 1n
  22. Gippius, Vladimir 1
  23. GITIS see State Institute of Theatre and Art
  25. Glavrepertkom see State Committee for Repertoire
  26. Glazunov, Alexander: entertained by
    1. Shostakovich family 1;
    2. and DDS’s First Symphony 1, 2;
    3. and alcohol 1, 2, 3;
    4. marriage 1;
    5. character 1;
    6. at Leningrad
    7. Conservatoire 1, 2, 3;
    8. support for DDS 1, 2, 3, 4;
    9. Fanfare 1
  27. Glazunov Quartet 1
  28. Glière, Rheingold: The Red Poppy 1
  29. Glikberg, Alexander see Chyorny, Sasha
  30. Glikman, Gavriil 1
  31. Glikman, Isaak: DDS’s friendship with 1, 2;
    1. on DDS’s appearance 1;
    2. becomes DDS’s secretary 1;
    3. on ‘Muddle Instead of Music’ 1;
    4. and DDS’s period of disgrace 1;
    5. and DDS’s Fourth Symphony 1;
    6. and DDS’s Fifth Symphony 1;
    7. on DDS’s Sixth Symphony 1;
    8. and DDS’s Seventh Symphony 1;
    9. works dedicated to 1;
    10. visits DDS in Kuibyshev 1, 2;
    11. and DDS’s First Violin Concerto 1n;
    12. supports DDS in second period of disgrace 1;
    13. and Lady Macbeth libretto 1, 2, 3;
    14. at premiere of DDS’s First Violin Concerto 1;
    15. on re-auditioning of Lady Macbeth 1;
    16. and Rayok 1;
    17. constant attendance at premieres 1;
    18. on effects on DDS of joining the Party 1;
    19. accuses Lebedinsky of forcing DDS to write about Lenin 1;
    20. condemns Pokrovsky production 1;
    21. at DDS’s last performance as pianist 1;
    22. on Five Romances on Texts from Krokodil 1;
    23. writes articles in DDS’s name 1n;
    24. on DDS’s Fifteenth Symphony 1;
    25. see also Letters to a Friend
  32. Glinka, Mikhail 1;
    1. Romances 1;
    2. Ruslan and Lyudmila 1
  33. Glinka Hall, Leningrad 1
  34. Glinka Quartet 1
  35. Glivenko, Tatyana (Tanya) 1, 2n;
    1. background and character 1;
    2. relationship with DDS 1, 2n, 3
  36. Glumov, A. N. 1
  37. Glyasser, Ignatii 1, 2
  38. Glyasser Courses 1, 2
  39. Gmyrya, Boris 1n, 2
  40. Gnessin, Mikhail 1;
    1. My Thoughts and Reminiscences about Rimsky-Korsakov ( 1
  41. Gogol, Nikolai: DDS’s love of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7;
    1. pathological tendencies 1
  42. WORKS: Dead Souls 1;
    1. The Gamblers 1, 2, 3;
    2. The Nose 1;
    3. ‘The Portrait’ 1, 2
  43. Gohrisch 1, 2
  44. The Gold Rush (film) 1
  45. Golodny, Mikhail 1
  46. Gorbachev, Mikhail 1n
  47. Gorbenko, N. F.: Virgin Soil 1
  48. Gorkom 1
  49. Gorky (town): concert of DDS’s music (1962) 1;
    1. Festival (1962) 1;
    2. Festival (1964) 1, 2, 3, 4
  50. Gorky, Maxim 1, 2
  51. Gorky Philharmonic Orchestra 1
  52. Gosconcert 1
  53. Gozenpud, Abraam 1n, 2, 3, 4, 5
  54. GPU see State Administration for the Struggle against Espionage and Counter-Revolution
  56. Grand Hotel, Kuibyshev 1
  57. ‘A Great Artist of Our Time’ (Oistrakh) 1
  58. Grekov, Madame 1
  59. Grekov, Professor Ivan 1, 2
  60. Grieg, Edvard 1, 2
  61. Grinberg, M. 1, 2
  62. Gromadsky, Vitali 1, 2, 3
  63. Grossman, Vasili: Life and Fate 1
  64. Gubaidulina, Sofiya 1, 2, 3
  65. Gulag Archipelago (Solzhenitsyn) 1
  66. ‘Gusev’ (Chekhov) 1
  67. Gusev, P. 1
  68. Gutman, Natalya 1
  69. Guzman (conductor of the Gorky Philharmonic) 1, 2, 3
  70. Gvozdev (reviewer) 1
  71. ‘The Gypsies’ (Pushkin) 1
  1. Hakobian (Akop’yan), Levon 1, 2, 3n, 4, 5n
  2. Hall of Columns, Moscow 1
  3. Hall of the Nobleman’s Assembly, Mikhailovsky Square, Petrograd 1
  4. Happiness (film) 1
  5. Haydn, Franz Joseph 1
  6. Helsinki Watch Groups 1
  7. Henze, Hans Werner 1
  8. Hermitage museum, Leningrad 1
  9. Herzen House, Moscow see House of Writers
  10. Hindemith, Paul 1, 2, 3, 4;
    1. Nobilissima Visione 1
  11. Hiroshima 1
  12. Holocaust 1, 2, 3, 4
  13. House of Creativity, Dilizhan, Armenia 1, 2
  14. House of Creativity, Ivanovo 1, 2, 3, 4
  15. House of Creativity, Repino 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
  16. House of Creativity, Ruza 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
  17. House of Writers, Moscow (Herzen House) 1
  18. How the Steel Was Tempered (Ostrovsky) 1
  19. ‘How We Were Re-educated: The End of February 1948’ (Sabinina) 1
  20. ‘Humour’ (Evtushenko) 1, 2, 3
  21. Hungary, Soviet invasion of (1956) 1, 2
  1. ‘I Am Utterly, Utterly Happy’ (Sabinina) 1
  2. I. I. Sollertinsky: Life and Legacy (Mikheeva) 1
  3. Igumnov, Konstantin 1
  4. Ilichev, Leonid 1
  5. Ilizarov, Dr Gavriil 1
  6. Ilyichyov, Leonid 1
  7. ‘Immortality’ (Arnshtam) 1
  8. ‘In Hope of All the Good and Glory’ (Pushkin) 1
  9. In Memory of I. I. Sollertinsky (Mikheeva) 1
  10. In Memory of V. Y. Shebalin (Shebalina) 1
  11. ‘In the Santé Jail’ (Apollinaire) 1
  12. In Shostakovich’s World (Khentova) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
  13. Institute for Noblewomen, Irkutsk 1
  14. ‘Instruction to the Armies of Art’ (Mayakovsky) 1
  15. International Bach Competition (1950) 1, 2
  16. Iochelson, V. E. 1, 2
  17. Irinovka dacha 1
  18. Isayeva, G. 1
  19. Ivanov, Konstantin 1
  20. Ivanovo see House of Creativity, Ivanovo
  22. Ivanovsky, Alexander 1
  23. Ivinskaya, Olga: A Captive of Time 1n
  1. Jesus Christ Superstar (musical) 1
  2. Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee 1
  3. Jews: as theme for DDS 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
    1. Soviet state’s treatment of 1, 2, 3, 4;
    2. general interest in Jewish music 1;
    3. Babi Yar massacre 1, 2, 3;
    4. Holocaust 1, 2, 3, 4;
    5. state permits limited emigration to Israel 1
  4. Jurgensen (handyman on Irinovka estate) 1
  1. Kabalevsky, Dmitri: criticizes DDS 1, 2;
    1. on DDS’s Fifth Symphony 1;
    2. wartime evacuation from Moscow 1;
    3. state attacks 1;
    4. as time-server 1;
    5. on DDS’s Twenty-Four Preludes and Fugues 1, 2;
    6. chairs committee to review Lady Macbeth 1;
    7. denounces Sakharov 1n;
    8. and DDS’s Fifteenth Quartet 1;
    9. and Michelangelo Suite 1;
    10. at DDS’s funeral 1, 2
  2. Kadet Party (Constitutional Democrats) 1
  3. Kaftanov (of Ministry of Culture) 1
  4. Kagan, I. L. 1
  5. Kagan, Oleg 1
  6. Kaganovich, Lazar 1, 2
  7. Kainova, Margarita see Shostakovich, Margarita
  8. Kaluszhsky, Lolya 1
  9. Kamenev, Lev (L. B. Rosenfeld) 1, 2
  10. Kann, E. 1
  11. Kapitsa, Pyotr 1n, 2
  12. Kaplan, Emmanuil 1, 2
  13. Kapralov, V. A.: Boris Mikhailovich Kustodiev 1
  14. Kara Karayev: Articles, Letters and
    1. Opinions (ed. Karagieva) 1, 2
  15. Karagieva, L.-V.: Kara Karayev:
    1. Articles, Letters and Opinions 1, 2
  16. Karayev, Kara 1, 2, 3
  17. Karetnikov, Nikolai 1, 2
  18. Karmen, Roman 1
  19. Kassan, A. 1n
  20. Kasyaninka (defector) 1
  21. Katayev, Vitali 1n
  22. Kazakevich, Emanuel 1
  23. Kazan 1
  24. Keldysh, Y. V. 1, 2
  25. Kellomäki see Komarovo Kemenov (of Ministry of Culture) 1
  26. Kensington Garden Hotel, London 1n
  27. Kerensky, Alexander 1
  28. Kerensky, Gleb 1, 2
  29. Kerensky, Oleg 1
  30. Kerzhentsev, P. 1
  31. KGB (formerly NKVD) 1
  32. Khachaturian, Aram: and DDS’s Seventh Symphony 1;
    1. wartime evacuation from Moscow 1;
    2. meets DDS 1;
    3. on competition for new national anthem 1;
    4. on Ivanovo 1;
    5. state attacks 1, 2;
    6. on ‘The Motherland Hears’ 1;
    7. reviews DDS’s Tenth Symphony 1;
    8. criticizes DDS for currency transactions 1;
    9. and DDS’s Thirteenth Symphony 1;
    10. hospitalized for stomach ulcers 1;
    11. denounces Sakharov 1n;
    12. and Michelangelo Suite 1;
    13. at DDS’s funeral 1
  34. Khachaturian, Karen 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
  35. Khadasevich, Valentina 1n
  36. Khaikin, Boris 1;
    1. Discourses on Conducting 1, 2
  37. Kharkov: DDS’s performances at 1
  38. Kharms, Daniil 1, 2, 3n
  39. Khentova, Sofiya 1n, 2, 3;
    1. ‘Dmitri Shostakovich: We Live in
    2. a Time of Stormy Passions and Actions’ 1, 2;
    3. In Shostakovich’s World 1, 2,  3, 4, 5, 6;
    4. Shostakovich: Life and Work 1, 2, 3;
    5. ‘Shostakovich and Khachaturian’ 1, 2;
    6. ‘Women in Shostakovich’s Life’ 1
  40. Khlebnikov, Velimir 1
  41. Kholodin, Alexander 1, 2, 3
  42. Khozak, Rafiil 1n
  43. Khrennikov, Tikhon: DDS accused of adversely influencing 1;
    1. wartime evacuation from Moscow 1;
    2. attacks DDS 1, 2, 3, 4;
    3. on DDS’s Tenth Symphony 1;
    4. unveils commemorative plaque to Prokofiev 1;
    5. and Stravinsky’s visit to Russia 1;
    6. continues ‘struggle against modernism’ 1, 2;
    7. denounces Sakharov 1n;
    8. and Moscow Chamber Orchestra 1;
    9. and Michelangelo Suite 1;
    10. at DDS’s funeral 1, 2
  44. Khrushchev, Nikita: denounces Stalin 1;
    1. pressurizes intellectual
    2. community for support 1, 2;
    3. and DDS 1, 2;
    4. and DDS’s Thirteenth Symphony 1;
    5. and literary censorship 1;
    6. attacks modern art 1, 2;
    7. removed from office 1, 2
  45. Khubov, G. 1, 2, 3, 4
  46. Kiev 1, 2
  47. Kirov, Sergei 1
  48. Kirov Theatre, Leningrad (GATOB;
  49. formerly Mariinsky Theatre, Leningrad State Theatre of Opera and Ballet, State Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet) 1, 2
  50. Kisilev, V.: ‘Letters from the 1930s’ 1
  51. Klemperer, Otto 1, 2
  52. Klevensky (cellist) 1
  53. Klimov (conductor) 1
  54. Klimovitsky 1n
  55. Knipper, Lev 1, 2
  56. Knipper-Chekhova, Olga 1, 2
  57. Knushevitsky, Victor 1, 2
  58. Kodály, Zoltán 1
  59. Kogan (poet) 1
  60. Kogan, L. 1, 2
  61. Kokaoulin, Vasili (DDS’s maternal grandfather) 1, 2, 3n
  62. Kokaoulina, Aleksandra (DDS’s maternal grandmother) 1n
  63. Kokaoulina, Lyubov’ see Yanovitskaya, Lyubov’
  64. Kokaoulina, Nadezhda see Galli-Shohat, Nadezhda
  65. Kokaoulina, Sofiya see Shostakovich, Sofiya  Kokoshkin, Fyodor 1
  66. Koltsov, Mikhail 1
  67. Komarovo (formerly Kellomäki) dacha 1, 2, 3, 4
  68. Komarovskaya, N. L.: ‘My
  69. Meetings with B. M. Kustodiev’ 1
  70. Komsomol (Communist Youth Organization;
    1. VLKSM) 1
  71. Komsomolskaya Pravda 1
  72. Kondrashin, Kirill Petrovich:
    1. premieres DDS’s Fourth Symphony 1, 2;
    2. wartime evacuation in Kuibyshev 1;
    3. premieres DDS’s Thirteenth Symphony 1;
    4. and DDS’s purchase of Zhukovka dacha 1;
    5. premieres The Execution of Stepan Razin 1;
    6. premieres Seven Romances on Poems by Alexander Blok 1;
    7. at DDS’s funeral 1
  73. Konstantinovskaya, Elena 1, 2, 3n, 4, 5;
    1. letters to 1
  74. Konyus, Georgi 1
  75. Kornilov, Boris 1
  76. Korshukov, Georgii 1
  77. Kostrykin, Maxim (DDS’s uncle) 1, 2, 3
  78. Kosygin, Alexander 1, 2
  79. Koussevitsky, Serge 1, 2
  80. Koval’ (Kovalev), Marian 1, 2, 3, 4;
    1. ‘The Creative Path of Shostakovich’ 1n
  81. Kovnatskaya, Lyudmila: D. D.
    1. Shostakovich: Anthology of Articles for His 90th Birthday 1, 2;
    2. Shostakovich: Between the Moment and Eternity 1, 2, 3
  82. Kozhunova, Fedosya (Fenya) 1, 2, 3
  83. Kozhunova, Mariya 1, 2
  84. Kozintsev, Grigori: response to his productions 1;
    1. and FEKS 1, 2;
    2. on DDS 1, 2, 3, 4;
    3. on composition of King Lear score 1;
    4. death 1
  85. Kozlova, G. M.: Letters to Lev Oborin 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
  86. Kozolupov, Semyon 1, 2
  87. Krakow 1
  88. Krapchenko (chairman of Committee for Arts) 1, 2
  89. Krasnoyarsk 1
  90. Kravets, Nelly: ‘A New Insight into the Tenth Symphony of Dmitri Shostakovich’ 1n
  91. Křenek, Ernst 1, 2
  92. Krenz, Jan 1
  93. Krivtsov, Senator 1
  94. Krokodil (magazine) 1;
    1. DDS’s Five Romances on Texts from Krokodil 1, 2, 3
  95. Kron, Alexander 1
  96. Krylov: Fables 1
  97. Kubatsky, Victor 1, 2, 3
  98. Küchelbecker, Wilhelm 1, 2
  99. Kuibyshev 1, 2, 3, 4
  100. Kukharsky, Vasili 1n, 2, 3
  101. Kukryniksy theatre collective 1
  102. Kulaks 1, 2
  103. Kulchitsky (poet) 1
  104. Kultura i Zhisn’ (newspaper) 1
  105. Kuprin, Alexander 1
  106. Kurchavov, Volodoya 1, 2
  107. Kurgan 1
  108. Kushnarov, Khristofor 1
  109. Kustodiev, Boris 1, 2, 3;
    1. books about 1
  110. Kustodiev, Kirill 1
  111. Kustodieva, Irina 1, 2
  112. Kuzma (water carrier) 1
  113. Kvadri, Mikhail 1, 2, 3, 4
  1. La Scala, Milan 1
  2. LAAS see Lenin All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences 
  3. ‘Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk District’ (Leskov) 1, 2, 3
  4. Lamm, Olga: ‘Vissarion Yaklovlevich Shebalin’ 1
  5. Land and Will group see Zemlya i Volya group
  6. Landau, Lev 1
  7. LASM see Leningrad Association for Contemporary Music
  8. Lazarevsky Cemetery (later ‘The Necropolis of The Eighteenth Century’) 1
  9. Lebedinsky, Lev: on DDS’s mother’s generosity 1;
    1. and The Nose 1;
    2. formally criticizes DDS 1;
    3. supports DDS in second
    4. period of disgrace 1;
    5. on Festive Overture 1;
    6. on DDS’s wives 1, 2;
    7. on authorship of  changes to Lady Macbeth libretto 1n;
    8. and Rayok 1, 2, 3;
    9. on DDS’s Eleventh Symphony 1;
    10. character and career 1;
    11. on DDS’s application for
    12. Party membership 1;
    13. friendship with DDS 1;
    14. on DDS’s Eighth Quartet 1;
    15. and DDS’s Twelfth Symphony 1, 2;
    16. relations with DDS deteriorate 1
  10. Ledenyov, Roman 1, 2, 3
  11. LEF see Front for Left Art
  12. Leipzig 1, 2
  13. Lena Gold-mines, Bodaibo, Eastern Siberia 1
  14. Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich: DDS
    1. allegedly sees 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
    2. and the Russian Revolution (1917) 1;
    3. and NEP 1;
    4. death 1;
    5. and Proletkult 1;
    6. and DDS’s Sixth Symphony 1;
    7. DDS dedicates Twelfth Symphony to 1, 2
  15. Lenin All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences (LAAS) 1n
  16. Leningrad (formerly St Petersburg; Petrograd): and the Russian
    1. Revolution (1917) 1;
    2. siege of (1941–4) 1, 2, 3, 4;
    3. Shostakovich festival (1966) 1
  17. Leningrad (journal) 1
  18. Leningrad Association for
    1. Contemporary Music (LASM) 1, 2, 3
  19. Leningrad Cappella 1
  20. Leningrad Composers’ Organization 1
  21. Leningrad Conservatoire: at beginning of twentieth century 1;
    1. DDS at 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8;
    2. Rozanova at 1;
    3. shortages after Russian Revolution 1;
    4. Rimsky-Korsakov’s influence and Glazunov’s changes 1, 2;
    5. Malko’s conducting classes 1;
    6. purges at 1;
    7. DDS teaches at 1;
    8. firefighting brigade in World War II 1;
    9. DDS dismissed from 1;
    10. DDS returns to teach at (1947) 1;
    11. DDS returns to teach at (1962) 1;
    12. DDS’s article on centenary 1n
  22. Leningrad District Party Committee 1
  23. Leningrad Maly Opera 1, 2
  24. Leningrad Maly Theatre
    1. (MALEGOT): The Nose production 1;
    2. commission to DDS 1;
    3. Lady Macbeth productions 1, 2, 3, 4;
    4. The Gypsy Baron production 1;
    5. plans to restage Lady Macbeth 1
  25. Leningrad Party Active 1
  26. Leningrad Philharmonic: Glyasser class attends concert 1;
    1. premieres DDS’s First Symphony 1, 2;
    2. DDS performs with 1;
    3. premieres DDS’s Second Symphony 1;
    4. and Sollertinksy 1;
    5. and Gauk 1;
    6. rehearses premiere of DDS’s Fourth
    7. Symphony 1;
    8. Klemperer conducts 1, 2;
    9. premieres  DDS’s Fifth Symphony 1, 2;
    10. concert for Leningrad Party Active 1;
    11. premieres DDS’s Sixth Symphony 1;
    12. wartime evacuation to Novosibirsk 1;
    13. Chulaki attacks 1;
    14. and Sanderling 1;
    15. premieres The Song of the Forests 1;
    16. premieres DDS’s Tenth Symphony 1;
    17. premieres DDS’s First Violin Concerto 1;
    18. special relationship with DDS 1;
    19. see also Mravinsky, Evgeni
  27. Leningrad Philharmonic Grand Hall 1, 2, 3
  28. Leningrad Philharmonic Hall 1, 2
  29. Leningrad Philharmonic Large Hall 1
  30. Leningrad Philharmonic Small Hall 1, 2
  31. Leningrad School of Physics 1
  32. Leningrad State Theatre of Opera and Ballet (formerly Mariinsky Theatre;
    1. later Kirov Theatre, State Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet) 1
  33. Leningrad Theatre Commission 1
  34. Leontev, L. 1
  35. Leontieva, O. 1
  36. Lermontov, Mikhail: DDS’s Two Romances on Lermontov Texts 1
  37. Leskov, Nikolai: ‘Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk District’ 1, 2, 3
  38. Letters to a Friend (Glikman) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6n, 7, 8, 9, 10n, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27
  39. Levine, Waltraut 1
  40. Levitin, Yuri: and poker 1;
    1. at Ivanovo 1;
    2. on repression of 1948 1;
    3. support for DDS 1;
    4. DDS on 1, 2;
    5. and DDS’s Thirteenth Symphony 1;
    6. condemns Pokrovsky production 1;
    7. and DDS’s funeral 1
  41. Life and Fate (Grossman) 1
  42. Limonadov, Alexander L’vovich (Sasha) 1, 2, 3, 4
  43. Liszt, Franz: ‘Venice and Naples’ 1
  44. Literaturnaya Rossiya (journal) 1
  45. Litvinov, Maxim 1, 2, 3
  46. Litvinov, Mikhail (Misha; Flora’s husband) 1, 2
  47. Litvinov, Pavel (Pavlik): childhood 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
    1. imprisonment and deportation 1, 2
  48. Litvinova, Flora (née Yasinovskaya): and DDS’s Fourth Symphony 1;
    1. background 1;
    2. on Kuibyshev days 1, 2;
    3. on life during post-war repression 1;
    4. on DDS’s reaction to Stalin’s death 1;
    5. on effect of Nina’s death on DDS 1;
    6. on DDS joining the Party 1;
    7. on DDS’s Fourth Symphony 1;
    8. on last meeting with DDS 1
  49. Litvinova, Ivy (née Low) 1, 2
  50. Litvinova, Nina 1
  51. Litvinova, Tatyana (Tanya) 1, 2, 3
  52. Livanova, T. 1, 2, 3
  53. Livshits, A. 1
  54. Lokshin, Alexander 1
  55. London Symphony Orchestra 1
  56. Lopukhov, Fyodor 1, 2, 3, 4
  57. Lorca, Federico 1
  58. Lossky, Boris 1;
  59. ‘New Facts about Shostakovich’ 1, 2, 3
  61. Lossky, Vladimir 1, 2
  62. Lourié, Arthur 1
  63. Low, Ivy see Litvinova, Ivy
  64. Lubotsky, Mark 1, 2, 3
  65. Lukashevich, Klavdiya 1n, 2, 3, 4
  66. Lukin, Comrade (at Union of Composers’ Second Congress) 1
  67. Lukin, Y. 1
  68. Lunacharky, A. V. 1, 2, 3
  69. Lutoslawski, Witold 1;
    1. Paroles Tissées 1
  70. Luzanov (cellist) 1
  71. L’vov, A. N.: Virgin Soil 1
  72. Lyadova, Lyudmila 1
  73. Lysenko, Trofim 1, 2
  74. Lyubimov, Yuri 1, 2, 3, 4
  75. Lyubimsky, Zakhar 1
  1. M. V. Yudina: Articles, Reminiscences and Materials (ed. Kuznetsov) 1
  2. Maazel, L. A. 1, 2
  3. McBurney, Gerard 1n, 2n
  4. ‘Macpherson before His Execution’ (Burns) 1, 2
  5. Madison Square Garden, New York 1
  6. Mahler, Gustav: and Sollertinsky 1, 2;
    1. DDS’s love of 1, 2, 3, 4;
    2. moral stance of music 1;
    3. world view 1
  7. WORKS: The Song of the Earth 1, 2, 3;
    1. symphonies 1, 2, 3;
    2. Symphony no. 1 2
  8. Mailer, Norman 1n
  9. Maisky (ex-ambassador to London) 1
  10. MALEGOT see Leningrad Maly Theatre  Malenkov, Georgi 1, 2
  11. Malevich, Kazimir 1
  12. Malko, Nikolai: and Fogt Circle 1;
    1. at Leningrad Conservatoire 1, 2;
    2. and DDS’s First Symphony 1, 2;
    3. on DDS 1, 2, 3;
    4. conducts DDS 1;
    5. and DDS’s Second Symphony 1;
    6. on DDS and Sollertinsky 1;
    7. on DDS’s relationship with mother 1;
    8. and DDS’s job at Meyerhold’s Theatre 1;
    9. A Certain Art 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
  13. Malraux, André 1
  14. ‘The Man Who Spoke about the Omelette’ (Sabinina) 1
  15. Mandelstam, Osip 1
  16. Manège gallery 1
  17. Maranchik, Pavel: The Birth of Komsomol Theatre 1
  18. Mariinsky Theatre see Kirov Theatre;
    1. Leningrad State Theatre of Opera
    2. and Ballet; State Academic
    3. Theatre of Opera and Ballet
  19. Markov, Alexei 1
  20. Markov, P.: Theatre Direction: V. I.
    1. Nemirovich-Danchenko and the
    2. Musical Theatre 1
  21. Marshak (translator) 1, 2
  22. Marshak, S. 1
  23. Martynov, Ivan Ivanovich 1, 2
  24. Maslakovets, A. 1
  25. Maslennikov, Alec 1
  26. ‘Matryona’s House’ (Solzhenitsyn) 1
  27. Mayakovsky, Vladimir 1, 2 3, 4n;
    1. The Bedbug 1, 2, 3, 4
  28. Mazur, Kurt 1
  29. Medvedkin (film director) 1
  30. Medvedyev, Alexander 1, 2
  31. Medvedyev, Zhores 1
  32. The Meek and Oppressed (Dostoevsky) 1
  33. Melik-Pashayev, Alexander 1, 2, 3, 4n, 5, 6
  35. Melodiya (recording company) 1n, 2, 3, 4, 5 
  36. Mendeleyev, Dmitri 1
  37. Mendelssohn-Prokofieva, Mira 1, 2 
  38. Menuhin, Yehudi 1
  39. Merzhanov, Victor 1
  40. Merzhanova, Zinaida see Gayamova, Zinaida
  41. Mess, Lyonya 1
  42. Messerer, Asaf 1
  43.  Messiaen, Olivier 1
  44.  Metropole Hotel, Moscow 1
  45. Metropolitan Opera House, New York 1
  46. Meyer, Krzysztof 1n, 2, 3n, 4, 5;
    1. Dmitri Shostakovich 1;
    2. Quartet no. 3 1
  47. Meyerhold, Vsevolod: and DDS 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
    1. and The Nose 1;
    2.  Queen of Spades production 1;
    3. sees Stalin walk out of Lady Macbeth 1;
    4. arrest and death 1;
    5. theories about teaching 1
  48.  Meyerhold’s Theatre, Moscow 1, 2
  49.  Meyerovich, Mikhail 1, 2
  50.  Michelangelo: Britten’s Michelangelo Sonnets 1;
    1. DDS’s Michelangelo Suite 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
  51.  Michelson, Professor (surgeon) 1
  52.  Mikhailkov, Sergei 1
  53.  Mikhailov, Nikolai (of Ministry of Culture) 1
  54.  Mikheeva, Lyudmila: ‘D. D.
    1. Shostakovich Reflected in His Letters to I. I. Sollertinsky’ 1;
    2. I. I. Sollertinsky: Life and Legacy 1;
    3. In Memory of I. I. Sollertinsky 1;
    4. ‘The Story of a Friendship’ 1, 2
  55. Mikhoels, Solomon 1, 2, 3
  56. Mikoyan, Anastas 1
  57. Milhaud, Darius 1
  58. Milkis, Yakov 1
  59. Milstein, Nathan 1 
  60. Ministry of Culture: DDS performs for 1;
    1. buys DDS’s Fourth Quartet 1;
    2. re-auditions Lady Macbeth 1;
    3. and DDS’s official speeches 1
  61. Miroshnikova, Margarita 1, 2, 3
  62. MKhAT see Moscow Arts Theatre
  63. Mogilevsky, D. Y. 1n
  64. Moisseyev Ensemble of Folk Dance 1
  65. Molchanov, Kirill 1, 2, 3
  66. Molière: Tartuffe 1
  67. Molotov, Vyacheslav 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
  68. Molostova, Irina 1
  69. Morozov, Pavlik 1, 2
  70. Moscow Arts Theatre (MKhAT) 1
  71. Moscow Arts Theatre Second Studio 1
  72. Moscow Chamber Opera 1
  73. Moscow Chamber Orchestra 1
  74. Moscow Chamber Theatre 1, 2, 3
  75. Moscow Christmas (Pears) 1–6 
  76. Moscow Conservatoire: rivalry with St Petersburg 1;
    1. DDS considers moving to 1;
    2. Shebalin made director 1;
    3. DDS teaches at 1, 2;
    4. DDS dismissed from 1;
    5. effects of Decree on Formalism in Music 1, 2
  77.  Moscow Conservatoire Grand Hall: premiere of DDS’s Fourth Symphony 1;
    1. premiere of DDS’s Eighth Symphony 1;
    2. performance of DDS’s Violin Sonata 1;
    3. performance of DDS’s Twenty-Four Preludes and Fugues 1;
    4. DDS performs at 1;
    5. premiere of DDS’s Second  Cello Concerto 1;
    6. Britten and Pears perform at 1;
    7. DDS’s funeral 1
  78. Moscow Conservatoire Small Hall 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
  79. Moscow Hotel, Moscow 1, 2
  80. Moscow Pedagogical Institute 1
  81. Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra 1
  82. Moscow Polytechnic museum 1n
  83. Moscow Radio Orchestra 1
  84. Mosolov, Alexander 1, 2;
    1. The Dam 1
  85. Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus: Concerto for Two Pianos 1;
    1. The Marriage of Figaro 1;
    2. Symphony no. 41 in C major (‘Jupiter’) 1;
    3. Variations in C major 1
  86. Mravinsky, Evgeni: premieres DDS’s
    1. Fifth Symphony 1, 2n, 3, 4;
    2. as authentic interpreter of  DDS’s symphonies 1;
    3. premieres DDS’s Sixth Symphony 1;
    4. and DDS’s Eighth Symphony 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
    5. and DDS’s Ninth Symphony 1;
    6. Chulaki attacks 1;
    7. supports DDS in 1948 1;
    8. premieres The Song of the Forests 1;
    9. tours abroad after Thaw 1;
    10. premieres DDS’s Tenth Symphony 1, 2;
    11. premieres DDS’s First Violin Concerto 1;
    12. rehearsals and premieres for DDS 1;
    13. on messages in DDS’s music 1;
    14. premieres DDS’s Eleventh Symphony 1;
    15. premieres DDS’s First Cello Concerto 1;
    16. Rostropovich on 1;
    17. premieres DDS’s Twelfth Symphony 1;
    18. refuses to perform DDS’s Thirteenth Symphony 1, 2, 3;
    19. and Serikova 1, 2;
    20. Rostropovich breaks with 1;
    21. visits DDS at Repino 1;
    22. at DDS’s funeral 1
  87. ‘Muddle Instead of Music’ (Pravda article January 1936) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
  88. Muntyan, Mikhail 1, 2
  89. Muradeli, Vano 1, 2, 3;
    1. The Great Friendship 1, 2
  90. Musgiz Publishing House 1
  91. ‘Music’ (Akhmatova) 1, 2
  92. Music, Contacts and Destinies (Fried) 1
  93. Mussorgsky, Modest 1
  94. WORKS: Boris Godunov 1, 2, 3;
    1. ‘The Flea’ 1;
    2. Joshua (Iisus Navin) 1;
    3. Khovanshchina 1;
    4. Rayok 1;
    5. Sallombò 1;
    6. ‘The Seminarist’ 1;
    7. The Songs and Dances of Death 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9;
    8. Sorochinsky Fair 1
  95. Muzfond 1, 2, 2240
  96. Muzo, Commissariat for Enlightenment 1
  97. Muzpred 1
  98. ‘My Meetings with B. M. Kustodiev’ (Komarovskaya) 1
  99. My Thoughts and Reminiscences about Rimsky-Korsakov (Gnessin) 1
  100. Myaskovsky, Nikolai: DDS’s opinion of 1, 2;
    1. auditions DDS at Moscow Conservatoire 1;
    2. and DDS’s First Symphony 1;
    3. and Zhilyaev 1;
    4. on DDS’s Fifth Symphony 1;
    5. state attacks 1;
    6. wins Stalin Prize 1;
    7. deathbed doubts about Zhdanov Decree 1;
    8. Prokofiev on 1
  101. WORKS: Cello Concerto 1;
    1. Second Cello Sonata 1
  102. ‘The Mystery of Emancipated Labour’ (spectacle) 1
  1. Nabokov, Nicholas 1, 2;
    1. Old Friends and New Music 1
  2. Nabokov, Vladimir 1
  3. National Hotel, Kuibyshev 1
  4. National Institute of Health, Bethesda 1
  5. Nazirova, Elmira 1
  6. Nebol’sin, Vasili 1
  7. Nechipailo, Victor 1, 2
  8. ‘The Necropolis of the Eighteenth
    1. Century’ see Lazarevsky Cemetery
  9. Neizvestny, Ernst 1
  10. Nellius, E. 1
  11. Nemirovich-Danchenko, Vladimir 1, 2
  12. Nemirovich-Danchenko Theatre,
  13. Moscow 1, 2;
    1. see also Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Theatre
  14. NEP see New Economic Policy
  15. Nesterenko, Evgeni 1, 2, 3
  16. Nestyev, Israel 1, 2, 3, 4
  17. Neuhaus, Heinrich 1
  18. New Economic Policy (NEP) 1, 2
  19. ‘New Facts about Shostakovich’
    1. (Lossky) 1, 2, 3
  20. ‘A New Insight into the Tenth
    1. Symphony of Dmitri
    2. Shostakovich’ (Kravets) 1n
  21. New Philharmonia Orchestra 1n, 2
  22. New York Peace Congress (1949)
    1. see World Peace Congress
  23. Nicholas I, Tsar of Russia 1
  24. Nicholas II, Tsar of Russia 1, 2
  25. Nikitin (director of Gorky Philharmonic) 1
  26. Nikolayev, Alexei: ‘Letters to Shebalin’ 1n, 2, 3
  27. Nikolayev, Leonid: gives lessons to DDS 1, 2, 3;
    1. background 1;
    2. attends premiere of DDS’s First Symphony 1;
    3. on DDS’s First Piano Sonata 1;
    4. Perelman on 1;
    5. defends The Nose 1;
    6. death 1;
    7. DDS dedicates Second Piano Sonata to 1;
    8. on musicologists 1
  28. Nikolayeva, Tatyana: plays at
    1. International Bach Competition 1, 2;
    2. and DDS’s Twenty-Four Preludes and Fugues 1, 2, 3;
    3. and dating of DDS’s Tenth Symphony 1;
    4. at DDS’s funeral 1
  29. Nikolsky, Yuri 1
  30. Nizhnaya Oreanda Sanatorium, Yalta 1
  31. NKVD (People’s Commissariat of Internal Affairs; later KGB) 1;
    1. Ensemble of the Song and Dance 1
  32. Nomenklatura 1
  33. Nono, Luigi 1
  34. The Nose (Gogol) 1
  35. Novodevichi Cemetery 1
  36. Novodevichi Convent 1
  37. Novosibirsk 1, 2
  38. Novy Mir (literary journal) 1
  1. ‘O Wert Thou in the Cauld Blast’ (Burns) 1
  2. OBERIU see Association for Real Art
  3. Oberiuti writers’ group 1n
  4. Obkom (Local Party Committee) 1, 2
  5. Oborin, Lev: and Fogt Circle 1;
    1. and The Six 1;
    2. DDS’s relationship with 1;
    3. wins Chopin Competition (1927) 1, 2;
    4. and DDS’s First Piano Concerto 1;
    5. and DDS’s Fourth Symphony 1;
    6. wartime evacuation to Kuibyshev 1, 2, 3, 4;
    7. and DDS’s Second Piano Sonata 1;
    8. death 1;
    9. letters to 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
  6. Odessa 1, 2
  7. Offenbach, Jacques 1;
    1. La Belle Hélène 1
  8. OGPU (State Administration for the Struggle against Espionage and Counter-Revolution) 1
  9. Oistrakh, David: performances with DDS 1;
    1. and DDS’s First Violin Concerto 1, 2, 3;
    2. and Terror years 1;
    3. and DDS’s Violin Sonata 1;
    4. tours abroad after Thaw 1;
    5. reviews DDS’s Tenth Symphony 1;
    6. and DDS’s Second Violin Concerto 1, 2;
    7. Khrushchev on 1;
    8. and DDS’s Sonata for Violin and Piano 1;
    9. death 1;
    10. ‘A Great Artist of Our Time’ 1
  10. Oktyabristi 1
  11. Old Friends and New Music (Nabokov) 1
  12. Oleinnikov, Nikolai: ‘The Carp’ 1
  13. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Solzhenitsyn) 1, 2
  14. Orlov, Georgi 1
  15. Orlov, Henry 1
  16. Ostrovsky, Alexander 1, 2n, 3
  17. Ostrovsky, Nikolai: How the Steel Was Tempered 1
  18. Our Father, Dmitri Shostakovich (ed. Ardov) 1, 2, 3, 4n, 5, 6, 7, 8
  19. Ovcharek, Vladimir 1
  20. Owen, Wilfred 1
  1. Palace of Weights and Measures, St Petersburg 1, 2
  2. Pasternak, Boris 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
    1. Dr Zhivago 1
  3. Paustovsky, Konstantin 1, 2
  4. Pavlov, Ivan 1
  5. Pears, Peter 1, 2, 3;
    1. Moscow Christmas 1
  6. Peiko, Nikolai 1, 2n
  7. Pekker, Grigori 1
  8. Penderecki, Krzysztof 1;
    1. Dies Irae 1
  9. People’s Commissariat of Internal
    1. Affairs see NKVD
  10. Perelman, Nathan 1n, 2
  11. perestroika 1n
  12. Petrograd see Leningrad
  13. Petrograd Factories of Mass
    1. Production 1
  14. Petrov, Professor A. 1n
  15. Petrov, Andrei 1, 2
  16. Petrov, Ivan 1
  17. Petrov, M. 1
  18. Petrov, Nikolai 1
  19. Petrova, Muda 1
  20. Phipps, Susan 1, 2
  21. Piatnitsky Choir 1
  22. Picasso, Pablo 1, 2
  23. Piccadilly cinema, Nevsky
    1. Prospect, Leningrad (later Aurora cinema) 1, 2
  24. Piotrovsky, Adrian 1;
    1. Rule Britannia 1
  25. Pokrovsky, Boris 1, 2, 3, 4
  26. Polyakin, Miron 1
  27. Popov, Dmitri Azarievich 1
  28. Popov, Gavriil 1 2, 3, 4
  29. Popov, Georgi 1
  30. Popova, Lyubov’ 1
  31. ‘The Portrait’ (Gogol) 1, 2
  32. Poskrebyshev (Stalin’s secretary) 1
  33. Pospelov, P. N. 1
  34. The Possessed (Dostoevsky) 1, 2, 3, 4
  35. Poulenc, Francis 1
  36. Pozner, George 1
  37. Pozner, Vova 1
  38. Prague 1
  40. Prague Spring (1968) 1
  41. Pravda (newspaper): on The Limpid Stream 1;
    1. ‘Ballet Falsehood’ (6 February 1936) 1;
    2. ‘Muddle Instead of Music’ (January 1936) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
    3. on critics’ corruption 1;
    4. mistakes in articles in 1, 2
  42. Preis, Alexander 1, 2, 3
  43. Prince of Wales Hotel, London 1
  44. Production Collective of Student
    1. Composers (PROKOLL) 1
  45. Prokofiev, Lina (stage name Llubera; Prokofiev’s first wife) 1
  46. Prokofiev, Oleg 1, 2, 3
  47. Prokofiev, Sergei: novel nature of works 1;
    1. and St Petersburg
    2. Conservatoire 1;
    3. Glazunov’s opinion of 1;
    4. and DDS’s First Piano Sonata 1;
    5. and Meyerhold’s Theatre 1;
    6. on formalism 1;
    7. and Zhilyaev 1;
    8. on DDS’s Fifth Symphony 1;
    9. on DDS’s Eighth Symphony 1;
    10. hardship in World War II 1;
    11. and Ivanovo 1;
    12. state attacks 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
    13. punctuality 1;
    14. excuses self from self-criticism session 1;
    15. lack of contrast in music 1;
    16. commemoration of 1;
    17. and his wives 1;
    18. on Myaskovsky 1;
    19. and DDS 1;
    20. attitude to performances of own works 1
  48. WORKS: Cello Sonata 1;
    1. Duenna 1;
    2. Piano Concerto no. 1 2, 3;
    3. Piano Sonata no. 1 2;
    4. Symphony-Concertante for cello
    5. and orchestra 1;
    6. War and Peace 1
  49. PROKOLL see Production
    1. Collective of Student Composers
  50. Proletarian Cultural and Educational Organization (Proletkult) 1
  51. Proletarsky Musikant (journal) 1
  52. Promet (munitions industry) 1, 2
  53. Puccini, Giacomo 1
  54. Pupsik (operetta) 1
  55. Pushkin, Alexander 1;
    1. DDS’s Four Monologues on Pushkin Poems 1, 2, 3, 4;
    2. DDS’s Four Romances 1, 2, 3
  56. WORKS: ‘The Gypsies’ 1;
    1. ‘In Hope of All the Good and Glory’ 1;
    2. ‘Story of a Rhymer’ 1;
    3. ‘The Tale of the Priest and His Servant Balda’ 1
  57. Pushkin Museum, Mikhailovskoye 1 
  1. Quartet of the Moscow
    1. Philharmonic see Borodin Quartet
  2. Quiet Flows the Don (Sholokhov) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
  1. Rabfak see Workers’ Faculties
  2. Rabinovich (bureaucrat) 1
  3. Rabinovich, David 1n, 2, 3
  4. Rabinovich, Nikolai 1
  5. Rabochii i Teatr (magazine) 1, 2
  6. Rachmaninov, Sergei 1, 2, 3;
    1. Second Elegiac Trio 1
  7. Radamsky, Serghei: Der verfolgte tenor 1, 2
  8. Radio Orchestra 1, 2
  9. Raikh, Zinaida 1, 2
  10. Rakhlin, Nathan 1
  11. Rakov, Nikolai 1
  12. RAPM see Russian Association of
    1. Proletarian Musicians
  13. RAPP see Russian Association of
    1. Proletarian Writers  Ravel, Maurice: Bolero 1
  14. A Raw Youth (Dostoevsky) 1
  15. Red Army Ensemble 1, 2
  16. Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn: ‘Prodigal Son’ 1
  18. ‘Reminiscences of Shostakovich and his Thirteenth Symphony’ (Evtushenko) 1
  19. Rennenkampf, Adolf 1
  20. Rennenkampf Estates, Irinovka 1
  21. Renzin, I. M. 1, 2
  22. Repino see House of Creativity, Repino
  23. Reshetin, Mark 1
  24. Reznikov, Mark 1
  25. Richter, Sviatoslav: on DDS’s
    1. Eighth Symphony 1;
    2. performs piano version of DDS’s Ninth Symphony 1;
    3. wins All-Union Competition for Piano 1;
    4. support for Prokofiev 1;
    5. marriage 1;
    6. and From Jewish Poetry 1;
    7. tours abroad after Thaw 1;
    8. and Prokofiev’s Cello Sonata 1;
    9. and Britten’s music 1;
    10. premieres DDS’s Sonata for Violin and Piano 1;
    11. DDS’s article on 1n
  26. Riga 1
  27. Rilke, Rainer Maria 1, 2, 3, 4
  28. Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai: political leanings 1;
    1. influence on Leningrad Conservatoire 1;
    2. piano at Leningrad Conservatoire 1;
    3. on opera 1;
    4. and Jewish music 1;
    5. books about 1
  29. WORKS: Fugues 1;
    1. Scheherazade 1;
    2. The Tale of Tsar Saltan 1
  30. Rodchenko, Alexander 1
  31. Rolland, Romain 1
  32. Rome, Harold 1
  33. Rosenfeld, L. B. see Kamenev, Lev
  34. Roslavets, Nikolai 1
  35. Rossini, Gioacchino: William Tell Overture 1
  36. Rostropovich, Mstislav
    1. Leopoldovich (Slava): opinion of DDS’s work 1;
    2. and DDS’s Cello Sonata 1, 2, 3;
    3. on DDS’s Eighth Symphony 1;
    4. on being taught by DDS 1, 2n;
    5. wins All-Union Competition for Cello 1;
    6. and Ivanovo 1, 2;
    7. support given by DDS 1;
    8. tours abroad 1, 2, 3;
    9. on effects of Decree on Formalism in Music 1;
    10. leaves Moscow Conservatoire 1;
    11. appearance 1;
    12. organizes DDS festival in Gorky (1964) 1;
    13. marriage 1;
    14. on authorship of changes to Lady Macbeth libretto 1n;
    15. premieres Rayok 1;
    16. premieres DDS’s First Cello Concerto 1, 2;
    17. learns DDS’s First Cello Concerto 1;
    18. and Satires 1, 2, 3;
    19. acquires dacha in Zhukovka 1;
    20. on falling out with Mravinsky 1;
    21. and festivals and concerts in Gorky 1;
    22. New Year celebrations with DDS 1;
    23. and DDS’s Second Cello Concerto 1, 2;
    24. conducts Prokofiev’s War and Peace 1;
    25. and Prokofiev’s Cello Sonata 1;
    26. and Britten 1, 2;
    27. on DDS and immortality of composers 1n;
    28. support for Dr Ilizarov 1;
    29. forced into exile 1;
    30. farewell visit to DDS 1
  37. WORKS: Piano Concerto 1
  38. Royal Festival Hall, London 1, 2, 3n
  39. Royal York Hotel, York 1n
  40. Rozanova, Professor Alexandra 1
  41. Rozenfeld, Shura 1
  42. Rozhdestvensky, Gennadi 1, 2, 3n, 4, 5;
    1. Triangles and Triptych 1, 2, 3
  44. RSFSR see Union of Composers
  45. Rubenstein, Anton: The Demon 1
  46. Rubenstein, Nikolai 1
  47. Rudneva, Lyubov’ 1
  48. Rule Britannia (Piotrovsky) 1
  49. Russian Association of Proletarian
    1. Musicians (RAPM): and DDS 1, 2;
    2. overview and policies 1;
    3. criticizes The Nose 1, 2;
    4. and TRAM 1;
    5. and ‘Declared Dead’ 1;
    6. criticizes DDS in wake of Pravda article 1;
    7. and Lebedinsky 1
  50. Russian Association of Proletarian
  51. Writers (RAPP) 1, 2
  52. Russian Civil War (1918–21) 1
  53. Russian Revolution (1905) 1
  54. Russian Revolution (1917): effect on currency 1;
    1. Shostakovich family’s experience of 1;
    2. overview 1;
    3. atmosphere in Leningrad 1;
    4. influence on DDS 1
  55. Ruza see House of Creativity, Ruza
  56. Ryazanov, Pyotr 1
  57. Ryss, Evgeni 1
  58. Ryumin (Party functionary) 1n
  1. S. A. Samosud: Articles, Reminiscences, Letters (ed. Dansker) 1
  2. Sabinin, Professor Dmitri 1n, 2
  3. Sabinina, Marina: ‘About Children and Other Things’ 1;
    1. ‘An Artist Should Never Marry’ 1;
    2. ‘During the Days of “the Thaw”’ 1;
    3. ‘How We Were Re-educated: The End of February 1948’ 1;
    4. ‘I Am Utterly, Utterly Happy’ 1;
    5. ‘The Man Who Spoke about the Omelette’ 1;
    6. The Symphonism of Shostakovich: The Path Towards Maturity 1n
  4. Sadlo, Milos 1
  5. Sadykhova, R. S.: ‘Letters to Mother’ 1, 2, 3
  6. St Petersburg see Leningrad
  7. Sakharov, Andrei 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
  8. Saltykov-Shchedrin, Mikhail 1
  9. samizdat 1, 2n, 3, 4
  10. Samosud, Samuil: champions DDS 1;
    1. and Lady Macbeth 1, 2, 3, 4;
    2. premieres DDS’s Seventh Symphony 1, 2;
    3. books about 1
  11. Sanderling, Kurt 1
  12. Sanderling, Thomas 1, 2
  13. Sass-Tisovski, Boris 1
  14. Scarlatti, Domenico 1
  15. Schillinger, Joseph 1
  16. Schmidt, Professor (neurologist) 1
  17. Schnittke, Alfred 1, 2, 3, 4
  18. Schnittke, Benedict 1
  19. Schoenberg, Arnold 1, 2, 3, 4
  20. Schubert, Franz: lieder 1;
    1. Die schöne Müllerin 1;
    2. Die Winterreise 1
  21. Schumann, Robert: Carnaval 1;
    1. Dichterliebe 1
  22. Schwartz, Isaak 1, 2;
    1. On the Eve 1
  23. ‘A Second Birth’ (Evtushenko) 1
  24. Semyonov (secretary of Moscow Conservatoire Party Bureau) 1
  25. Serebryakov, Pavel 1, 2
  26. Serebryakova, Galina 1, 2;
    1. ‘About Myself and Others’ 1
  27. Serikova, Inna 1, 2
  28. Seroff, Victor: Dmitri Shostakovich: The Life and Background of a Soviet Composer 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
  29. Serov, V. 1
  30. Shafran, Daniil 1
  31. Shaginyan, Marietta 1
  33. Shak, M. S. 1
  34. Shakespeare, William 1;
    1. Hamlet 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
    2. King Lear 1, 2, 3, 4;
    3. sonnets 1
  35. ‘Shakti’ trial 1
  36. Shalnikov, Shura 1
  37. Shapiro, Mikhail 1
  38. Shaporin, Yuri 1, 2
  39. Shaposhnikova, Varvara see
    1. Shostakovich, Varvara
  40. Shatilov (director of Musical Department of Repertoire Committee) 1n
  41. Shchedrin, Rodion 1n, 2, 3
  42. Shcherbachov, Vladimir 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
  43. Shebalin, Dmitri 1
  44. Shebalin, Nikolai 1
  45. Shebalin, Vissarion (Ronya): and Fogt Circle 1;
    1. and The Six 1;
    2. DDS’s relationship with 1, 2;
    3. support for DDS in period of disgrace 1;
    4. and DDS’s Fifth Symphony 1;
    5. takes DDS to football match 1;
    6. wartime evacuation from Moscow 1;
    7. DDS sorry to be apart from during war 1;
    8. appointed director of Moscow
    9. Conservatoire 1, 2;
    10. works dedicated to 1;
    11. state attacks 1, 2, 3;
    12. driven out of Moscow Conservatoire 1;
    13. advises DDS to destroy Rayok 1;
    14. teaching of DDS’s music 1;
    15. on DDS and Composers’
    16. Union politics 1;
    17. books about 1;
    18. letters to 1n, 2, 3, 4
  46. Shebalina, Alisa 1 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
    1. In Memory of V. Y. Shebalin 1
  47. Shelepin, Alexander 1
  48. Shenderovich, Evgeni 1
  49. Shepilov, Dmitri 1, 2, 3, 4n
  50. Sher, Venyamin 1
  51. Shidlovskaya Private Commercial School, Petrograd 1, 2, 3, 4
  52. Shillinger, Joseph: March on the East 1
  53. Shingaryov 1
  54. Shirinsky, Sergei 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
    1. see also Beethoven Quartet
  55. Shirinsky, Vasili 1, 2, 3, 4;
    1. see also Beethoven Quartet
  56. Shishmarev, Vladimir 1
  57. Shklovsky, Viktor 1
  58. Shneerson, Grigori: D. D.Shostakovich: Articles and Materials 1, 2
  59. Sholokhov, Mikhail 1;
    1. Quiet Flows the Don 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
    2. Virgin Soil Upturned 1
  60. Shostakovich, Boleslav (DDS’s paternal grandfather) 1, 2n
  61. Shostakovich, Dmitri (DDS’s grandson) 1, 2
  62. Shostakovich, Dmitri Boleslavovich (DDS’s father): and DDS’s christening 1;
    1. background 1, 2;
    2. education 1;
    3. employment 1, 2, 3;
    4. appearance and character 1, 2;
    5. family Siberian evenings 1;
    6. book collection 1;
    7. and gadgets 1;
    8. death 1, 2, 3
  63. Shostakovich, Dmitri Dmitriyevich (Mitya): letter writing style 1;
    1. attempts to decode music 1;
    2. musicians’ opinions of works 1;
    3. birth and christening 1;
    4. background 1;
    5. allegedly sees Lenin 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
    6. at the Shidlovskaya 1, 2, 3, 4;
    7. at the Stoyunina Gymnasium 1, 2, 3, 4;
    8. at the Leningrad Conservatoire 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8;
    9. and TB 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
    10. relationship with Tatyana Glivenko 1, 2n, 3;
    11. first visit to the opera 1;
    12. friendship with the Kustodievs 1;
    13. Glazunov gets rations and funds for 1;
    14. attempts to oust him from Conservatoire 1;
    15. sixteenth birthday party 1;
    16. and Fogt Circle 1;
    17. considers transfer to Moscow Conservatoire 1;
    18. early musical allegiances 1;
    19. accepted as post-graduate student at Leningrad Conservatoire 1;
    20. and appendicitis 1, 2, 3;
    21. and topical politics 1, 2;
    22. attitude to artistic political groups 1, 2;
    23. dismissed from Choreographic Technical College 1;
    24. accused of Formalism 1;
    25. begins involvement with films 1;
    26. becomes music director at Meyerhold’s Theatre (1928) 1;
    27. accepts position at TRAM (1929) 1;
    28. on musical ideology 1;
    29. meets Nina (1927) 1, 2;
    30. marries Nina (1932) 1, 2;
    31. dancing skills 1;
    32. reputation secured by Lady Macbeth 1;
    33. complaints about opera librettos 1;
    34. affair with Konstantinovskaya and temporary separation from Nina 1;
    35. divorces and remarries Nina (1935) 1;
    36. public disgrace 1, 2, 3;
    37. nearly arrested 1;
    38. Fifth Symphony seems to win his pardon 1, 2;
    39. elected deputy to Leningrad City Council (1939) 1;
    40. accepts teaching post at Leningrad Conservatoire (1937) 1;
    41. holidays in Crimea 1;
    42. questioned over Polyakin’s death 1;
    43. war work 1;
    44. evacuation to Kuibyshev (1941) 1, 2, 3;
    45. catches typhoid fever 1;
    46. moves to Moscow (1942) 1;
    47. Slonim’s bust 1;
    48. permission withheld to visit USA (1946) 1;
    49. enters competition for new Soviet national anthem 1;
    50. accepts post at Moscow Conservatoire (1943) 1, 2;
    51. at Ivanovo 1, 2;
    52. Second Piano Trio wins Stalin Prize (1946) 1;
    53. decides to settle in Moscow (1946) 1;
    54. Stalin gives him money, flat and dachas 1;
    55. moves to new flats in Moscow (1947) 1;
    56. reaction to recommencement of artistic repression 1;
    57. second period of disgrace 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
    58. forced into public repentance 1, 2;
    59. driven to verge of suicide 1;
    60. dismissed from Leningrad and Moscow Conservatoires 1, 2;
    61. socialist from Conservatoire ‘instructs’ him 1;
    62. lives in constant expectation of arrest 1;
    63. pays for Schwartz’s studies 1;
    64. writes to Beriya in support of Weinberg 1;
    65. attends World Peace Congress (1949) 1;
    66. fortunes recover after World Peace Congress 1;
    67. post–1948 division of work into three categories 1;
    68. The Song of the Forests wins Stalin Prize (1950) 1;
    69. heads Soviet delegation to East Germany (1950) 1;
    70. elected deputy to Supreme Soviet of Composers’ Union (1951) 1;
    71. reaction to Stalin’s death 1;
    72. pressurized by Khrushchev regime to support Party 1;
    73. Tenth Symphony seems to rehabilitate 1;
    74. and Nina’s death (1954) 1, 2, 3;
    75. reaction to mother’s death 1, 2;
    76. marries Margarita (1956) 1, 2, 3;
    77. divorces Margarita 1;
    78. household and home life 1;
    79. fails in attempts to rehabilitate Lady Macbeth 1;
    80. acts as chair of Tchaikovsky International Competition (1958) 1;
    81. Decree ‘On the Correction of Errors’ fully rehabilitates him 1;
    82. influence on younger composers 1, 2;
    83. relations with pupils 1;
    84. under pressure, joins the Party (1960) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
    85. others’ views of his political compromises 1, 2, 3;
    86. fiftieth birthday parties (1956) 1;
    87. wins Order of Lenin (1956) 1;
    88. official duties 1, 2, 3;
    89. appointed First Secretary of Union of Composers (1960) 1;
    90. speeches 1;
    91. awards from abroad 1n, 2;
    92. comes close to suicide again 1;
    93. meets and marries Irina (1962) 1, 2, 3;
    94. retrospective festivals 1;
    95. returns to teach at Leningrad Conservatoire (1962) 1;
    96. buys Zhukovka dacha 1;
    97. wins Sibelius Prize (1958) 1;
    98. authorities interfere with spending 1, 2;
    99. moves to larger Moscow flat (1962) 1;
    100. continues to write film scores 1;
    101. meets Stravinsky in Russia 1;
    102. conducting debut 1;
    103. burns new quartet 1;
    104. deteriorating health weakens hands and legs 1, 2, 3;
    105. first heart attack 1;
    106. forced to give up smoking and drinking 1, 2;
    107. Irina nurses 1, 2, 3, 4;
    108. sixtieth birthday 1, 2;
    109. relations with Prokofiev 1;
    110. focus in later life on chamber music 1;
    111. treatment with Dr Ilizarov 1;
    112. second heart attack 1, 2;
    113. looks back in old age on work 1;
    114. rarely responsible for own articles or speeches 1;
    115. last journeys abroad 1;
    116. wins Sonning Prize (1973) 1;
    117. US doctors pronounce his illnesses incurable 1;
    118. home ‘concert-rehearsals’ 1;
    119. links with Dostoevsky 1;
    120. his study 1;
    121. death 1, 2;
    122. funeral 1
  64. APPEARANCE 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13
  65. CHARACTER: ability to read fast 1;
    1. ability to tell stories 1;
    2. absentmindedness 1;
    3. and alcohol 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
    4. and the avant-garde 1;
    5. behaviour during rehearsals and performances 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7;
    6. charm 1, 2;
    7. as a child 1;
    8. decision making 1;
    9. energy and dynamic force 1;
    10. hatred of vulgarity 1;
    11. holy fool or cynic? 1;
    12. humour 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
    13. inability to say no 1;
    14. interest in jazz 1;
    15. kindness 1, 2, 3;
    16. love for own children 1, 2, 3;
    17. love of football 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
    18. love of game of patience 1;
    19. love of literature 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
    20. love of poker 1;
    21. loyalty to performers 1;
    22. mode of addressing people 1;
    23. modesty 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
    24. and musical snobbery 1;
    25. nervousness 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8;
    26. nervousness in presence of strangers 1;
    27. obsession with hygiene 1, 2;
    28. politeness 1;
    29. powers of endurance and discipline 1, 2, 3;
    30. privacy 1, 2;
    31. punctuality and professionalism 1, 2, 3, 4;
    32. self-reliance 1;
    33. and women 1;
    34. and worldly fame 1
  66. COMPOSING METHOD: early attempts 1, 2;
    1. DDS on process 1;
    2. creative block 1;
    3. ‘hears’ whole piece 1;
    4. speed 1, 2;
    5. ability to go inside self 1;
    6. difficulties 1;
    7. span of conception 1;
    8. speed and facility 1;
    9. fears of burning out 1;
    10. type of pen and desk 1;
    11. instantaneity 1, 2, 3;
    12. lack of errors in scores 1;
    13. tempi markings 1;
    14. occasional need for working sketches 1;
    15. Fifteenth Symphony 1;
    16. alcohol’s effect on 1;
    17. difficulties in later life 1
  67. FRIENDSHIPS: Arnshtam 1;
    1. Britten 1, 2, 3;
    2. Glikman 1, 2;
    3. Glivenko 1, 2n, 3;
    4. Khachaturian 1;
    5. Lebedinsky 1;
    6. Nazirova 1;
    7. Shebalin 1, 2, 3;
    8. Sollertinsky 1, 2;
    9. Ustvolskaya 1, 2;
    10. Zhilyaev 1
  68. MOTIFS: DSCH 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
    1. Elmira 1
  69. MUSICALITY: early talent 1;
    1. musical observation and memory 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
    2. perfect orchestral hearing 1;
    3. perfect pitch and ability to learn 1;
    4. precise hearing 1;
    5. quick learner at sight-reading and aural dictation 1;
    6. serial techniques 1
  70. AS PIANIST: lessons from mother 1, 2, 3;
    1. gifts 1;
    2. job as cinema pianist 1, 2, 3, 4;
    3. initial reluctance 1;
    4. plays at Glyasser examination concert 1;
    5. lessons with Glyasser 1, 2;
    6. lessons with Rozanova 1;
    7. studies with Nikolayev 1, 2;
    8. performs own works at Lossky house 1;
    9. rhythmic sense 1;
    10. first public performances 1;
    11. style when playing First Symphony 1;
    12. performances in Kharkov 1;
    13. embarks on concert career 1;
    14. in Chopin Competition (1927) 1, 2;
    15. performances in 1927–9;
    16. style and improvisation 1, 2;
    17. returns to platform (1933) 1;
    18. performs in Turkey (1935) 1;
    19. Ferkelman on skills 1;
    20. performs with Glazunov and Beethoven Quartets 1;
    21. performs piano version of Ninth Symphony 1;
    22. performs in Prague (1947) 1;
    23. accompanies From Jewish Poetry 1;
    24. performs in New York (1949) 1;
    25. plays with Borodin Quartet 1;
    26. treatment of upper register as percussion instrument 1;
    27. inner absorption during performances 1;
    28. records Cello Sonata 1;
    29. performs at Moscow Conservatoire Grand Hall 1;
    30. last performances 1;
    31. illness restricts use of hands and ends performances 1, 2, 3;
    32. keeping the lid open 1
  71. WORKS
    1. collected edition 1
  72. BALLETS:
    1. The Bolt Op. 1 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
    2. The Golden Age Op. 1 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
    3. The Limpid Stream Op. 1 2, 3, 4, 5
  73. CHAMBER AND INSTRUMENTAL:
    1. Cello Sonata in D minor Op. 1 2, 3, 4
    2. Piano Quintet in G minor Op. 1, 2, 3n, 4, 5, 6, 7
    3. Piano Trio no. 1 Op.8 (Poème) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
    4. Piano Trio no. 2 in E minor Op. 1 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
    5. String Quartet no. 1 in C major Op. 1 2, 3, 4
    6. String Quartet no. 2 in Amajor Op. 1 2, 3, 4
    7. String Quartet no. 3 in F major Op. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
    8. String Quartet no. 4 in D major Op. 1 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
    9. String Quartet no. 5 in Bb major Op. 1 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
    10. String Quartet no. 6 in G major Op. 1 2, 3
    11. String Quartet no. 7 in F# minor Op. 1 2
    12. String Quartet no. 8 in C minor Op.110: as DDS’s musical autobiography 1, 2, 3;
    13. and Borodin Quartet 1;
    14. composition of 1;
    15. meaning in 1;
    16. circumstances behind creation 1;
    17. allusions in 1;
    18. performances 1n;
    19. played at DDS’s funeral 1
    20. String Quartet no. 9 in Eb major Op.117: incomplete version 1;
    21. complete version 1
    22. String Quartet no. 10 in Ab major Op. 1
    23. String Quartet no. 11 in F minor Op. 1 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
    24. String Quartet no. 12 in Db major Op. 1 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
    25. String Quartet no. 13 in Bb major Op. 1 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
    26. String Quartet no. 14 in F# major Op. 1 2, 3, 4, 5
    27. String Quartet no. 15 in Eb minor Op. 1 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
    28. Three Cello Pieces Op. 1 2, 3
    29. Trio for piano, violin and cello 1
    30. Two Pieces Op.11 (string octet) 1, 2
    31. Viola Sonata Op. 1 2, 3, 4
    32. Violin Sonata Op. 1 2, 3
  74. CHORAL:
    1. The Execution of Stepan Razin Op. 1 2
    2. Loyalty Op. 1 2
    3. Rayok (The Peep-show, The Gods or A Learner’s Manual) 1, 2n, 3, 4, 5n, 6
    4. The Song of the Forests Op. 1, 2, 3
  75. FILM SCORES:
    1. Belinsky Op. 1 2
    2. Counterplan Op. 1;
    3. ‘Song of the Counterplan’ 1, 2, 3
    4. The Fall of Berlin Op. 1
    1. Five Days and Five Nights Op. 1 2, 3n
    2. The Girl Friends 1
    3. Hamlet Op. 1, 2, 3
    4. King Lear Op. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
    5. The Maxim Trilogy 1
    6. Meeting on the Elbe Op. 1 2
    7. Michurin Op. 1 2
    8. New Babylon Op. 1 2, 3
    9. Sofiya Perovskaya Op. 1 2n, 3
    10. A Year as Long as a Lifetime Op. 1 2n
    11. The Young Guard Op. 1 2
  77. INCIDENTAL MUSIC:
    1. The Bedbug Op.19 (Mayakovsky) 1, 2, 3
    2. Declared Dead (Hypothetically (or Conditionally) Killed; Allegedly Murdered) Op. 1 2, 3, 4
    3. Hamlet Op. 1, 2, 3
    4. Rule Britannia Op.28 (Piotrovsky) 1
    5. The Shot Op.24 (Bezymensky) 1
    6. Virgin Soil Op.25 (L’vov, Gorbenko) 1
  78. MISCELLANEOUS:
    1. ‘Funeral March for the Victims of the Revolution’ 1
    2. The Great Russian River Op. 1 2;
    3. ‘Football’ 1
    4. ‘Hymn to Liberty’ 1
    5. Native Leningrad Op. 1 2
    6. Overture and Finale for Dresser’s Armer Columbus 1
    7. Victorious Spring Op.72: ‘Burn, Burn, Burn’ (‘The Torches’; ‘Song of the Lantern’) 1
  79. OPERAS:
    1. The Black Monk (not completed) 1, 2
    2. The Gamblers (not completed) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
    3. The Great Lightning (not completed) 1, 2
    4. Lady Macbeth Of Mtsensk (later revised as Katerina Izmailova) Op. 1, then Op. 2:
    5. influences 1;
    6. composition of and productions 1;
    7. Pravda article criticizes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
    8. Stalin walks out of 1;
    9. public popularity 1;
    10. Glikman and libretto 1, 2, 3;
    11. DDS’s attempts to rehabilitate (1955–6) 1;
    12. finally approved by Union of Composers (1961) 1;
    13. and Lebedinsky 1;
    14. allusions to in Eighth Quartet 1;
    15. premiered as Katerina Izmailova (1963) 1;
    16. film of 1;
    17. publication of score 1;
    18. DDS takes Evtushenko to 1;
    19. Bolshoi Theatre production 1;
    20. Berlin production 1, 2;
    21. Danish productions 1;
    22. borrowings from Dostoevsky 1, 2
    23. Moscow-Cheryomushki Op. 1 2, 3, 4
    24. The Nose Op.15: avant-garde trends 1, 2;
    25. libretto 1;
    26. Proletkult’s influence 1;
    27. and RAPM 1;
    28. composition and first production 1;
    29. Kozintsev on 1;
    30. DDS plays to Flora Litvinova 1;
    31. Moscow premiere 1;
    32. borrowings from in Fifteenth Symphony 1;
    33. 1974 revival 1, 2;
    34. long-lost score found 1;
    35. borrowings from Dostoevsky 1
  81. ORCHESTRAL:
    1. Cello Concerto no. 1 in Eb major Op. 1 2, 3, 4, 5n, 6
    2. Cello Concerto no. 2 Op. 1 2, 3, 4
    3. Concert Suite from ‘The Tale of the Priest and His Servant
    4. Balda’ Op. 1 2
    5. Festive Overture Op. 1
    6. Five Fragments 1
    7. October 1
    8. Piano Concerto no. 1 in C minor Op. 1 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
    9. Piano Concerto no. 2 in F major Op. 1 2, 3, 4
    10. Scherzo in Eb major Op. 1 2, 3
    11. Scherzo in F# minor Op.1 (‘The Officer’s Scherzo’) 1, 2
    12. Suite for Variety Stage Orchestra 1
    13. Suite no. 1 for jazz orchestra 1
    14. Suite no. 2 for jazz orchestra 1
    15. Symphony no. 1 in F minor Op.10: Glazunov’s view 1;
    16. orchestration 1;
    17. composition of and early performances 1, 2, 3;
    18. mood 1, 2;
    19. completed 1;
    20. Zhitomirsky on 1;
    21. Klemperer conducts 1;
    22. Lebedinsky on 1;
    23. allusions to in Eighth Quartet 1
    24. Symphony no. 2 (‘To October’) in B major Op.14: avant-garde trends 1;
    25. composition of 1, 2, 3;
    26. RAPM on 1;
    27. Zhitomirsky on 1
    28. Symphony no. 3 (‘Mayday’) in Eb major 1, 2, 3, 4
    29. Symphony no. 4 in C minor Op.43: loss of MS 1;
    30. composition of 1, 2;
    31. under pressure, DDS withdraws premiere 1, 2;
    32. finally premiered 1, 2, 3, 4;
    33. whereabouts of MS score 1n;
    34. borrowings from in Fifteenth Symphony 1
    35. Symphony no. 5 in D minor Op.47: loss of MS 1, 2n;
    36. string effects 1n;
    37. political background 1;
    38. DDS shows to Zhilyaev 1;
    39. composition of and premiere 1, 2;
    40. themes and muse 1;
    41. bureaucrats’ reception of 1;
    42. played at DDS’s fiftieth birthday celebrations 1;
    43. ending 1;
    44. played at DDS’s funeral 1
    45. Symphony no. 6 in B minor Op. 1 2, 3
    46. Symphony no. 7 (‘Leningrad’) in
    47. C major Op.60: composition of and premieres 1, 2, 3, 4n, 5;
    48. theme 1;
    49. plans to perform in Tashkent 1;
    50. bureaucrats attack 1;
    51. quoted in Fifteenth Symphony 1;
    52. borrowings from Dostoevsky 1, 2
    53. Symphony no. 8 in C minor
    54. Op.65: Mravinsky makes orchestration suggestions 1;
    55. composition of 1, 2;
    56. reactions to 1;
    57. effectively banned 1;
    58. Zhitomirsky on 1;
    59. links with Second Piano Trio 1;
    60. bureaucrats attack 1, 2;
    61. Mravinsky and DDS at rehearsals 1;
    62. British premiere 1, 2;
    63. ending 1;
    64. allusions to in Eighth Quartet 1
    1. Symphony no. 9 in Eb major Op. 1 2, 3, 4, 5
    2. Symphony no. 10 in E minor Op. 1 2, 3, 4, 5, 6n
    3. Symphony no. 11 (‘The Year 1905’) in G minor Op. 1 2, 3; 4
    4. Symphony no. 12 (‘The Year 1917’) in D minor Op. 1 2, 3, 4, 5
    5. Symphony no. 13 (‘Babi Yar’) in Bb minor Op. 1:
      1. citations of earlier works in 1;
      2. composition of and premiere 1, 2, 3;
      3. reactions to 1, 2;
      4. structure 1;
      5. Mravinsky refuses to conduct 1, 2, 3;
      6. suppressed 1;
      7. Evtushenko on 1;
      8. Kozintsev on 1;
      9. Britten and Pears attend rehearsals 1;
      10. German performance 1;
      11. Lyubimov uses extract in Taganka production 1
    6. Symphony no. 14 Op. 1:
      1. Lebedinsky on 1;
      2. Evtushenko on 1,
      3. DDS’s background reading for 1;
      4. composition of 1;
      5. analysis 1, 2;
      6. vetted at closed concert 1, 2, 3;
      7. premieres 1, 2;
      8. recording 1;
      9. German performance 1
    7. Symphony no. 15 in Amajor Op. 1 2n, 3
      1. Theme and Variations for orchestra Op. 1 2n
      2. Violin Concerto no. 1 in Aminor Op.77: effect of Zhdanov Decree on 1;
      3. composition of 1;
      4. first hearing and performance 1, 2, 3;
      5. Jewish themes 1;
      6. played at DDS’s fiftieth birthday celebrations 1;
      7. London performance 1
      8. Violin Concerto no. 2 in C# minor Op. 1 2
  83. ORCHESTRATIONS:
    1. Boris Godunov Op. 1
    2. (Mussorgsky; re-orchestration) 1, 2
    3. Khovanshchina Op. 1
    4. (Mussorgsky; re-orchestrated and edited for film version) 1
    5. ‘Pleasure Train Polka’ (Strauss from Vernugungzug) 1
    6. The Songs and Dances of Death (Mussorgsky) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
    7. ‘Tahiti Trot’ Op.16 (‘Tea for Two’ by Youman) 1, 2
    8. Two Pieces by Domenico Scarlatti Op. 1 2
  84. PIANO:
    1. Aphorisms Op. 1 2, 3, 4
    2. Concertino for Two Pianos Op. 1 2
    3. Eight Preludes Op. 1 2
    4. Five Preludes 1
    5. Four Preludes Op. 1 2
    6. Piano Sonata no. 1 Op. 1, 2, 3, 4
    7. Piano Sonata no. 2 Op. 1 2, 3, 4
    8. Suite for Two Pianos Op. 1 2, 3, 4, 5
    9. Three Fantastic Dances Op. 1 2
    10. Twenty-Four Preludes and Fugues Op. 1;
      1. and Union of Composers 1, 2, 3;
      2. Jewish themes 1;
      3. Richter’s recording 1;
      4. performances 1, 2;
      5. composition of 1;
      6. MS given to Ustvolskaya 1n;
      7. played at DDS’s funeral 1
  85. SOLO VOCAL:
    1. ‘The Fearless Regiments are on the March’ 1
    2. Five Romances on Texts from Krokodil Op. 1 2, 3, 4
    3. Five Romances on Verses of Dolmatovsky Op. 1
    4. Four Monologues on Pushkin Poems Op. 1 2, 3, 4, 5
    5. Four Romances Op.46 (Pushkin) 1, 2, 3
    6. Four Songs to Words by Dolmatovsky Op. 1 2, 3;
      1. ‘The Motherland Hears’ 1;
      2. ‘Rodina Slyshit’ 1n
    7. Four Verses of Captain Lebyadkin Op. 1 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
    8. From Jewish Poetry Op. 1 2, 3, 4n, 5
    9. Japanese Songs 1
    10. Preface to My Collected Works and a Short Reflection upon This Preface Op. 1 2, 3
    11. Satires (‘Pictures from the Past’) Op. 1 2, 3, 4, 5, 6n
    12. Seven Romances on Poems by Alexander Blok Op. 1 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
    13. Six Poems of Marina Tsvetayeva Op.143 (orchestrated as Op.143a) 1
    14. Six Romances on Verses by English Poets Op. 1, 2n;
    15. Three Romances on Texts by Burns 1n, 2
    16. Spanish Songs Op. 1
    17. Suite on Verses of Michelangelo Op. 1 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
      1. Two Romances on Lermontov Texts Op. 1 2
  86. WRITINGS:
    1. ‘Autobiography’ 1, 2
    2. ‘Description of Life’ 1, 2, 3
    3. letters 1, 2
    4. ‘Letters from the 1930s’ (ed. Kisilev) 1
    5. ‘Letters to Boleslav Leopoldovich Yavorsky’ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
    6. Letters to Boris Tishchenko 1, 2
    7. ‘Letters to Edison Denisov’ 1, 2
    8. Letters to Lev Oborin (ed. Kozlova) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
    9. ‘Letters to Mother’ (ed. Sadykhova and Frederiks) 1, 2, 3
    10. ‘Letters to Shebalin’ (Nikolayev) 1n, 2, 3
    11. ‘Letters to Smolich’ (Yudin) 1, 2, 3, 4n
    12. ‘A Questionnaire on the Psychological Aspect of the Creative Process’ 1, 2
    13. See also Letters to a Friend  (Glikman); Mikheeva: In Memory of I. I. Sollertinsky
    14. Shostakovich, Galina Dmitriyevna (Galya, Galisha; later Chukoskaya; DDS’s daughter): and DDS’s experience of Russian Revolution 1;
      1. birth (1936) 1, 2;
      2. on wartime evacuation from Leningrad 1;
      3. in Kuibyshev 1;
      4. at Ivanovo 1, 2;
      5. on holidays at Komarovo 1;
      6. education 1, 2;
      1. DDS’s care for health of 1;
      2. on DDS’s relationship with Ustvolskaya 1;
      3. at mother’s funeral 1;
      4. and Margarita 1;
      5. on recovery in family fortunes after World Peace Congress 1;
      6. and dating of Rayok 1;
      7. and DDS’s Eighth Quartet 1;
      8. on acquisition of Zhukovka dacha 1;
      9. goes to Helsinki with DDS 1;
      10. marriage and children 1;
      11. on Irina 1;
      12. at Zhukovka 1, 2;
      13. and DDS’s funeral 1
    2.  Shostakovich, Irina Antonovna (DDS’s third wife; née Supinskaya): and DSCH publishing house 1;
      1. and Lady Macbeth’s libretto 1;
      2. and Rayok MS 1;
      3. on DDS’s Twelfth Symphony 1;
      4. marries DDS (1962) 1, 2, 3;
      5. nurses DDS 1, 2, 3, 4;
      6. background 1;
      7. works dedicated to 1, 2;
      8. Druzhinin on 1;
      9. Pears on 1, 2;
      10. and DDS’s Fourteenth Symphony 1;
      11. on Solzhenitsyn 1;
      12. takes tickets to Denisov 1;
      13. at Taganka Theatre 1;
      14. travels 1;
      15. and DDS’s Fifteenth Quartet 1;
      16. and Pokrovsky’s The Nose 1;
      17. and DDS’s death 1;
      18. at DDS’s funeral 1
    3. Shostakovich, Margarita (DDS’s second wife; née Kainova) 1, 2, 3, 4
    4. Shostakovich, Mariya Dmitriyevna (Marusya, Musya; DDS’s sister; later Fredericks): and DDS’s christening 1;
      1. education 1;
      2. on DDS’s birth 1n;
      3. birth 1;
      4. goes to work after father’s death 1;
      5. graduates from Leningrad
      6. Conservatoire 1;
      7. plays in school concert 1;
      8. and the Kustodievs 1;
      9. experience of Russian Revolution 1;
      10. character 1;
      11. on DDS and Glivenko 1, 2;
      12. and Vecheslova 1;
      13. on husband’s arrest 1;
      14. comes to Kuibyshev 1;
      15. moves back to Leningrad 1;
      16. exile in Kirghizia (1937) 1;
      17. and DDS’s separation from Margarita 1;
      18. Leningrad flat 1;
      19. turns pages at performance of DDS’s First Violin Concerto 1;
      20. DDS hides in flat from Composers’ Union 1;
      21. death 1
    5. Shostakovich, Maxim Dmitriyevich (DDS’s son): origin of name 1n;
      1. birth (1938) 1;
      2. and evacuation from Leningrad 1;
      3. in Kuibyshev 1;
      4. at Ivanovo 1;
      5. on holidays in Komarovo 1, 2;
      6. education 1, 2;
      7. reaction to mother’s death (1954) 1;
      8. on Soviet delegation to World Peace Congress 1;
      9. desire to become pianist 1, 2;
      10. at mother’s funeral 1;
      11. appearance and character 1;
      12. and Margarita 1;
      13. friendship with Chukovsky 1;
      14. on Bolshevo 1;
      15. on authorship of changes to Lady Macbeth libretto 1n;
      16. on DDS’s re-auditioning of Lady Macbeth 1;
      17. inspired to write libretto similar to Rayok 1;
      18. conducting career 1;
      19. on DDS’s political pragmatism 1;
      20. premieres DDS’s Second Piano Concerto 1;
      21. fears about DDS’s Eleventh Symphony 1;
      22. and Komarovo production of DDS’s First Violin Concerto 1;
      23. guards DDS from suicide 1;
      24. on DDS’s Twelfth Symphony 1;
      25. marriage and children 1, 2;
      26. goes to Edinburgh festival with DDS 1;
      27. on Irina 1;
      28. premieres October 1;
      29. on DDS’s stay in Kurgan clinic 1;
      30. premieres DDS’s Fifteenth Symphony 1;
      31. and Michelangelo Suite 1;
      32. and DDS’s funeral 1, 2
    6. Shostakovich, Nina Vasilyevna (DDS’s first wife; née Varzar): background and education 1, 2;
      1. meets DDS (1927) 1, 2;
      2. marries DDS (1932) 1, 2;
      3. infidelity 1;
      4. works dedicated to 1, 2, 3;
      5. temporary separation from DDS 1;
      6. divorces and remarries DDS (1935) 1;
      7. background 1;
      8. and sport 1, 2n;
      9. entertains Klemperer 1;
      10. gives birth to Galina (1936) 1;
      11. holidays in Crimea 1, 2;
      12. evacuation to Kuibyshev 1, 2, 3;
      13. and Flora Litvinova 1, 2;
      14. character 1, 2, 3;
      15. relationship with Sofiya 1;
      16. moves to Moscow (1942) 1;
      17. at Ivanovo 1;
      18. chooses dacha 1;
      19. and children’s education 1;
      20. New Year celebrations (1947–8) 1;
      21. and DDS’s second period of disgrace 1, 2, 3;
      22. and Litvinov children 1;
      23. offers to help Weinberg children 1;
      24. and  DDS’s trip to World Peace Congress (1949) 1;
      25. death (1954) 1, 2;
      26. Lebedinsky on 1;
      27. working trips 1;
      28. advice to Rostropovich 1
    7. Shostakovich, Sofiya (Sonya;
      1. DDS’s mother;
      2. née Kokaoulina): and DDS’s christening 1;
      3. background 1, 2, 3;
      4. education 1, 2, 3;
      5. marriage 1;
      6. appearance and character 1;
      7. piano lessons 1, 2, 3, 4;
      8. hospitality 1, 2;
      9. moves DDS to Rozanova 1;
      10. and husband’s death 1, 2, 3, 4;
      11. family history of TB 1;
      12. and DDS’s sixteenth birthday party 1;
      13. dissuades DDS from moving to Moscow Conservatoire 1;
      14. and premiere of DDS’s First Symphony 1;
      15. on Kvadri 1;
      16. fears about DDS going to Chopin Competition (1927) 1;
      17. memories of DDS composing The Nose 1;
      18. and DDS’s love affairs 1, 2;
      19. interfering nature 1;
      20. and Vechoslova 1;
      21. on Varzar family 1;
      22. comes to Kuibyshev 1, 2;
      23. relationship with Nina 1;
      24. moves back to Leningrad 1;
      25. death 1, 2;
      26. letters to 1, 2, 3
    8. Shostakovich, Varvara (DDS’s paternal grandmother;
      1. née Shaposhnikova) 1, 2n
    9. Shostakovich, Zoya Dmitriyevna (DDS’s sister): teased by DDS 1;
      1. birth and childhood 1, 2;
      2. on DDS’s childhood 1;
      3. studies at Leningrad Conservatoire 1;
      4. and DDS’s experiences of Russian Revolution 1;
      5. character 1;
      6. on DDS and Sollertinsky 1;
      7. on The Nose 1;
      8. and Glivenko 1;
      9. marries and moves to Moscow 1
    10. Shostakovich: Between the Moment and Eternity (Kovnatskaya) 1, 2, 3
    11. Shostakovich: Life and Work (Khentova) 1, 2, 3
    12. Shostakovich and His World (ed. Fay) 1
    13. ‘Shostakovich and Khachaturian’ (Khentova) 1, 2
    14. Shostakovich archive 1
    15. Shostakovich in Letters and Documents 1
    16. ‘Shostakovich’s Antiformalist Rayok’ (Yakubov) 1n, 2n
    17. ‘Shostakovich’s Youthful Years’ (Tyulin) 1
    18. The Shot (Bezymensky) 1
    19. Shumskaya, N. 1
    20. Sibelius, J.: connection of his work to DDS’s Twelfth Symphony to 1
    21. Siberian Composers’ Organization: Fourth Plenum 1
    22. Siberian Folk Choir 1
    23. Silvestrov, Valentin 1
    24. Simeonov, Konstantin 1
    25. Simonov, Ruben 1
    26. Sinyavsky, Andrei 1
    27. Sitkovetsky, Julian 1
    28. The Six 1, 2
    29. Skanavi, Vladimir 1
    30. Sketches, Articles, Notes (Druskin) 1
    31. Sketches for an Analysis of Gogol’s Work (Ermakov) 1
    32. ‘Sketches from Memory’ (Sokolov) 1, 2
    33. Skrebkov, S. 1, 2, 3
    34. Skryabin, Alexander 1, 2n, 3, 4;
    35. First Symphony 1
    36. Slonim, Ilya 1, 2, 3, 4n, 5, 6
    37. Slonimsky, Sergei 1, 2
    38. Smirnov (theatre director) 1
    39. Smolich, Nikolai 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
      1. letters to 1, 2, 3, 4n
    40. Sobelyov, Leonid 1
    41. Social Democrat Bolshevik Party 1
    42. Sofronitsky, Vladimir 1
    43. Sokol (home of Moscow Chamber Theatre) 1
    44. Sokolov, Nikolai 1;
    45. ‘Sketches from Memory’ 1, 2
    46. Sokolova, A. 1
    47. Sokolovsky, Mikhail 1
    48. Sollertinsky, Ivan: introduces Druskin to DDS 1;
      1. monthly salary 1;
      2. meets DDS 1;
      3. DDS’s friendship with 1, 2;
      4. and The Nose 1, 2;
      5. and The Golden Age 1;
      6. and The Bolt 1;
      7. and Lady Macbeth 1, 2;
      8. on Dzerzhinsky 1;
      9. and Glikman 1;
      10. support for DDS in period of disgrace 1, 2;
      11. and Klemperer 1;
      12. and DDS’s Fourth Symphony 1;
      13. and Mravinsky 1;
      14. and DDS’s Sixth Symphony 1;
      15. DDS sorry to be apart from during war 1;
      16. works dedicated to 1, 2;
      17. and DDS’s Eighth Symphony 1, 2, 3;
      18. sudden death 1;
      19. second Piano Trio as portrait of 1;
      20. DDS’s visit to grave 1;
      21. and Gozenpud 1;
      22. letters to 1, 2, 3, 4;
      23. books about 1, 2
    49. Solovyov-Sedoy, Vasili 1
    50. Solzhenitsyn, Alexander: state campaign against 1n, 2;
      1. relations with DDS 1, 2;
      2. and Rostropovich 1;
      3. on DDS’s Fourteenth Symphony 1, 2;
      4. exiled 1
    51. WORKS: Gulag Archipelago 1;
      1. ‘Matryona’s House’ 1;
      2. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich 1, 2
    52. Soviet Union: hardships after Russian Revolution 1, 2;
      1. Stalin’s rise to power 1;
      2. purges 1, 2, 3;
      3. German invasion of (1941) 1;
      4. national anthem competition  1;
      5. repression recommences after World War II 1;
      6. Brezhnev era 1, 2
    53. Soviet–Nazi pact (1939) 1
    54. Sovietskaya Muszyka (journal) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
    55. Sovietskoye Iskusstvo 1n
    56. Sovietsky Kino cinema 1
    57. Sovietsky Kompozitor 1
    58. Spassky, Boris 1
    59. Splendid Palace cinema, Leningrad 1, 2
    60. Staatsoper, Berlin 1, 2
    61. Stalin, Joseph: rise to power 1;
      1. purges 1, 2, 3;
      2. appeals to country to intensify class warfare 1;
      3. walks out of Lady Macbeth 1;
      4. and Pravda’s criticisms of DDS 1;
      5. foreign opinion 1;
      6. Tukhachevsky’s alleged plot against 1;
      7. fears will return to purges after war 1;
      8. judges competition for new national anthem 1;
      9. maxims 1n;
      10. gives DDS flat and money 1;
      11. provoked by Muradeli 1;
      12. and DDS’s visit to World Peace Congress 1, 2;
      13. and banning of DDS’s work 1;
      14. and Doctors’ Plot (1953) 1;
      15. death 1;
      16. DDS writes oratorio celebrating 1;
      17. denounced by Khrushchev 1;
      18. parodied in Rayok 1;
      19. favourite song 1
    62. Stanislavsky, Konstantin 1
    63. Stanislavsky and Nemerivoch-Danchenko Theatre, Moscow 1
    64. Stanislavsky Music Theatre 1
    65. Starokadomsky, Mikhail 1
    66. Stasevich, Abram 1
    67. State Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet (GATOB; formerly
      1. Mariinsky Theatre, Kirov
    68. Theatre, Leningrad State Theatre of Opera and Ballet) 1
    69. State Administration for the
    70. Struggle against Espionage and Counter-Revolution (GPU) 1
    71. State Committee for Repertoire (Glavrepertkom) 1, 2
    72. State Committee for the Arts see 
      1. Committee for the Arts
    73. State Institute of Theatrical Art (GITIS) 1
    74. State Orchestra for Jazz 1
    75. Stefanska, Cserny 1
    76. Steinberg, Maximilian (‘Oatsovich’): DDS in class of 1;
    77. DDS dedicates Op.1 to 1;
      1. teaching style 1, 2, 3;
      2. on DDS’s Suite for Two Pianos 1;
      3. origin of nickname 1n;
      4. verdict on DDS 1;
      5. DDS’s relationship with 1;
      6. on DDS’s Op. 1 2;
      7. and  DDS’s First Symphony 1, 2n, 3, 4;
      8. and DDS’s Second Symphony 1;
      9. and The Nose 1;
      10. on DDS’s marriage 1n
      11. Stiedry, Fritz 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
      12. Stockhausen, Karlheinz 1
      13. Stolyarov (conductor) 1
      14. ‘The Story of a Friendship’ (Mikheeva) 1, 2
      15. ‘Story of a Rhymer’ (Pushkin) 1
      16. Stoyunina, M. N. 1
      17. Stoyunina Gymnasium, Petrograd 1, 2, 3, 4
      18. Stradivarius Quartet 1
      19. Strauss, Johann: The Gypsy Baron 1;
      20. Vernugungzug 1
      21. Strauss, Richard: Don Quixote 1
      22. Stravinsky, Igor: opinion of DDS’s music 1;
      23. novel nature of works 1;
      24. and St Petersburg  Conservatoire 1;
      25. studied at Fogt Circle 1;
      26. Glazunov’s opinion of 1;
      27. on Lady Macbeth 1;
      28. DDS’s love of 1, 2;
      29. and DDS’s attendance at World Peace Congress 1, 2, 3;
      30. wins Sibelius Prize (1953) 1;
      31. visits Russia (1962) 1
    78. WORKS: Les Noces 1;
      1. Petrushka 1, 2;
      2. Rite of Spring 1;
    79. Symphony of Psalms 1, 2, 3, 4;
    80. Three Pieces for string quartet 1
    81. Stravinsky, J.: Dialogues and a Diary 1
    82. Stuckenschmidt, Hans Heinz 1, 2
    83. Sumbatyan, Anaida 1
    84. Supinskaya, Irina see Shostakovich, Irina
    85. Supreme Soviet: DDS as deputy 1, 2, 3
    86. Surin, V. N. 1
    87. Suslov, Mikhail 1, 2
    88. Sverdlovsk Orchestra 1
    89. Sveshnikov, Alexander V. 1
    90. Svetlanov, Evgeni 1, 2
    91. Sviridov, Georgii 1, 2, 3, 4, 5n;
    92. The Pathétique Oratorio 1
    93. Svoboda 1
    94. Symbolists 1, 2
    95. The Symphonism of Shostakovich: The Path Towards Maturity (Sabinina) 1n
    96. Szpinalski, Stanislav 1n
  1. Taganka Theatre 1n, 2, 3
  2. Taktakishvili, Otar 1
  3. ‘The Tale of the Priest and His Servant Balda’ (Pushkin) 1
  4. The Taming of the Arts (Elagin) 1
  5. Tanglewood 1
  6. Tanyeev Quartet 1, 2, 3
  7. Tarakanova, Princess 1
  8. Tarkhanov, Mikhail (real name Moskvin) 1
  9. Tartuffe (Molière) 1
  10. Tashkent 1, 2
  11. Tatlin, Vladimir 1
  12. Tchaikovsky, Boris 1;
  13. The Star 1;
  14. Trio 1, 2
  15. Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich 1, 2, 3, 4
  16. WORKS:
    1. Eugene Onegin 1, 2;
    2. Fantastic Overture Francesca da Rimini 1;
    3. ‘In the Silence of the Mysterious Night’ 1;
    4. The Nutcracker Suite 1;
    5. Piano Concerto no. 1 2, 3;
    6. Piano Trio 1;
    7. The Queen of Spades 1;
    8. Sleeping Beauty 1;
    9. String Quartet no. 1 2;
    10. Symphony no. 1 2
  17. Tchaikovsky International Competition (1958) 1
  18. Tchaikovsky Quartet 1
  19. Tea Jazz Orchestra 1
  20. Terentyev (director) 1
  21. Teryan 1
  22. Testimony: The Memoirs of Shostakovich as Related to and Edited by Solomon Volkov (Volkov): demonstrated not to be memoir by DDS 1;
    1. and DDS’s experiences of Russian Revolution 1, 2, 3;
    2. and DDS’s letter from Berg 1n;
    3. DDS on Gauk in 1;
    4. Basner on veracity of 1;
    5. on competition for new national anthem 1n;
    6. Rostrapovich contradicts 1;
    7. on DDS’s political position 1
  23. The Thaw: nature and effects 1;
    1. DDS on 1;
    2. and literary censorship 1
    3. The Thaw (Ehrenburg) 1n, 2
  24. Theatre Direction: V. I. Nemirovich-Danchenko and the Musical Theatre
    1. (Markov) 1
  25. Theodorakis, Mikis 1
  26. Thirty Years of Moscow Art (exhibition) 1
  27. ‘Thirty Years of Shostakovich’s
  28. Music’ (Mravinsky) 1
  29. Thousands Cheer (film) 1
  30. Tishchenko, Boris 1, 2, 3, 4;
  31. letters to 1, 2, 3
  32. ‘To October’ (Bezymensky) 1, 2
  33. ‘Today I Will Talk about Shostakovich’ (Chulaki) 1
  34. Tolstoy, Alexei 1, 2
  35. Tolstoy, Count Lev 1;
  36. War and Peace 1
  37. Tomashevskaya, Zoya 1
  38. Tomashevsky, Boris 1, 2
  39. Toscanini, Arturo 1, 2, 3, 4
  40. TRAM see Workers’ Youth Theatre
  41. Trauberg, Leonid 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
  42. Treblinka Concentration Camp 1
  43. Triangles and Triptych
  44. (Rozhdestvensky) 1, 2, 3
  45. Trifonov, Yuri 1n
  46. Trotsky, Leon (Lev Davydovich Bronstein) 1, 2, 3
  47. Tsarskoye Selo see Detskoye Selo
  48. Tsekhanovsky, Mikhail 1, 2
  49. Tselikovsky (conductor) 1
  50. Tsurtsumiya, R. Andrei Melitonovich Balanchivadze: Collection of Articles and Material 1
  51. Tsvetayeva, Marina 1;
  52. DDS’s Six Poems of Marina Tsvetayeva 1
  53. Tsyganov, Dmitri: premieres DDS’s
    1. Second Piano Trio 1;
    2. speed of playing 1;
    3. on DDS’s Ninth Quartet 1;
    4. on DDS’s ambition to write twenty-four quartets 1;
    5. DDS dedicates Twelfth Quartet to 1, 2, 3;
    6. invites Druzhinin to join Beethovens 1;
    7. and DDS’s Fifteenth Quartet 1;
    8. on DDS’s Second Quartet 1;
    9. see also Beethoven Quartet
  54. Tukhachevsky, Marshal Mikhail:
  55. offers to act as DDS’s patron 1;
  56. defends DDS to Stalin 1;
  57. shot 1;
  58. and Zhilyaev 1, 2;
  59. consequences for DDS of friendship with 1;
  60. works dedicated to 1n
  61. Tulubieva, A. 1
  62. Tumanov, Iosif 1
  63. Turgenev, Ivan 1
  64. Tuskiya, Iona 1
  65. Tvardovsky, Alexander 1, 2
  66. Tyulin, Yuri: ‘Shostakovich’s Youthful Years’ 1
  67. Tyutchev, Fyodor 1
  1. Ulanova, Galina 1
  2. Umova, Ekaterina Alekseevna 1
  3. Union of Composers: foundation 1;
    1. discussion of ‘Muddle Instead of Music’ 1, 2;
    2. and DDS’s Fourth Symphony 1;
    3. and DDS’s Fifth Symphony 1n;
    4. DDS performs for 1;
    5. sets up composers’ retreats 1;
    6. DDS elected Leningrad deputy 1;
    7. 1948 Plenum 1, 2, 3, 4;
    8. DDS shows Twenty-Four Preludes and Fugues 1, 2, 3;
    9. DDS shows From Jewish Poetry 1;
    10. DDS elected deputy to Supreme Soviet of 1;
    11. discussion of DDS’s Tenth Symphony 1;
    12. finally approves Lady Macbeth 1;
    13. Second Congress (1957) 1, 2, 3;
    14. DDS appointed First Secretary (1960) 1;
    15. DDS’s official duties for 1;
    16. pressurizes DDS to join the Party 1;
    17. hosts Stravinsky’s visit to Russia 1;
    18. conservative faction consolidates power 1;
    19. DDS and Union politics 1;
    20. Shchedrin succeeds DDS as First Secretary 1
  4. Universal Edition 1
  5. Uspenskaya, Klavdia 1, 2, 3
  6. Ustvolskaya, Galina (Galya): and DDS’s MSS 1, 2n, 3, 4, 5;
    1. relationship with DDS 1, 2;
    2. at premiere of DDS’s First Violin Concerto 1
  7. WORKS: Clarinet Trio 1;
    1. Piano Sonata no. 1 2
  8. Utyosov, Leonid 1
  9. ‘Uzkoye’ Sanatorium for Academicians 1
  1. Vagrina, Valentina 1
  2. Vainonen, Vasilii 1n
  3. Vakhtangov Theatre, Moscow 1, 2, 3
  4. Vakman, Sofiya 1
  5. Valentinovka dacha 1
  6. VAPM (All-Union Association of Proletarian Musicians) see
    1. Russian Association of Proletarian Musicians (RAPM)
  7. Varzar, Irina (DDS’s sister-in-law) 1, 2n
  8. Varzar, Nina see Shostakovich, Nina
  9. Varzar, Sofiya (DDS’s mother-in-law) 1, 2, 3, 4n
  10. Varzar, Vasili (DDS’s father-in-law) 1, 2, 3n, 4, 5
  11. Varzar family 1
  12. Vasilenko (at Moscow Conservatoire) 1
  13. Vasilyev, Alexander 1
  14. Vecheslova, Tatyana: About All That Is Dear 1
  15. Vedernikov, Alexander 1n
  16. Venice Biennale Contemporary Music Festival 1
  17. Verdi, Giuseppe 1;
    1. Otello 1;
    2. Rigoletto 1
  18. Der verfolgte tenor (Radamsky) 1, 2
  19. Vertogradsky (priest) 1
  20. Vienna 1
  21. Villiams, Anusya 1, 2
  22. Villiams, Pyotr 1, 2;
    1. ‘Nana’ 1
  23. Villiams family 1, 2
  24. Virgin Soil (L’vov and Gorbenko) 1
  25. Virgin Soil Upturned (Sholokhov) 1
  26. Vishnevskaya, Galina: in Lady Macbeth 1;
    1. and Oistrakh 1;
    2. on DDS’s marriage to Margarita 1;
    3. on DDS’s home life 1;
    4. on Decree ‘On Correction of Errors’ 1;
    5. as inspiration to DDS 1;
    6. on deference of DDS’s circle 1;
    7. career 1;
    8. and Satires 1, 2n;
    9. in film of Katerina Izmailova 1;
    10. on Irina 1;
    11. on DDS’s Thirteenth Symphony 1n, 2;
    12. DDS accompanies at Leningrad concert 1;
    13. New Year celebrations with DDS 1;
    14. and Seven Romances on Poems by Alexander Blok 1, 2;
    15. and Britten 1;
    16. and DDS’s Fourteenth Symphony 1, 2, 3, 4;
    17. forced into exile 1;
    18. on DDS’s political position 1;
    19. Galina: A Russian Story 1, 2, 3, 4
  27. ‘Vissarion Yaklovlevich Shebalin’ (Lamm) 1
  28. Vladimirov (cinema conductor) 1
  29. Vladimirov, Evgeni 1, 2, 3
  30. Vlasik, General 1
  31. Vlasov (pianist) 1
  32. VLKSM see Komsomol
  34. Voevodin, Vselevod 1
  35. Voice of America 1
  36. Volgograd: Shostakovich festival (1966) 1
  37. Volkonsky, Andrei 1, 2
  38. Volkov, Solomon 1;
    1. see also Testimony
  39. Volynsky, Akim (real name Khaim Leybovich Flekser) 1
  40. Voroshilov, Klimet 1, 2, 3
  41. Vovsi, Professor Miron 1
  42. Vovsi-Mikhoels, Natalya (Tala) 1, 2
  43. Voznesensky, Andrei 1
  44. Vulfson 1n
  45. Vvedensky, Alexander 1, 2n
  46. Vysotsky, Vladimir 1
  1. Wagner, Richard 1, 2;
    1. Götterdämmerung 1, 2
  2. Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York 1
  3. Walter, Bruno 1, 2
  4. Walter, Victor 1
  5. War and Peace (Tolstoy) 1
  6. Ward Number Six (Chekhov) 1
  7. Webern, Anton von 1
  8. Weinberg, Mechislav 1
  9. Weinberg, Moisei (Metak): relations with DDS 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
    1. arrested 1;
    2. demonstrates DDS’s Tenth Symphony 1;
    3. as composer 1;
    4. and Katerina Izmailova 1n;
    5. and DDS’s Thirteenth Symphony 1;
    6. works dedicated to 1, 2;
    7. and Seven Romances on Poems by Alexander Blok 1;
    8. The Madonna and the Soldier 1
  10. Weinberg, Vitosha 1
  11. Weisberg, Julia: The Twelve 1
  12. Welter, Nadezhda L’vovna: About Opera and Myself 1
  13. Wilcocks, David 1
  14. Wilson, Elizabeth 1, 2, 3, 4
  15. Wilson, Sir Duncan 1, 2, 3
  16. The Wise Man (Proletkult theatrical experiment) 1
  17. ‘Women in Shostakovich’s Life’ (Khentova) 1
  18. Wood, Sir Henry 1
  19. Workers’ Faculties (Rabfak) 1
  20. Workers’ Youth Theatre (TRAM) 1, 2, 3
  21. World Festival of Youth, Moscow (1956) 1
  22. World Peace Congress (March 1949, New York) 1, 2
  23. World War II: Germany declares war on Soviet Union (1941) 1;
    1. siege of Leningrad (1941–4) 1, 2, 3, 4;
    2. Hiroshima 1
  24. A Writer’s Diary (Dostoevsky) 1
  25. Writers’ Union 1
  1. Yadrino 1
  2. Yagodovsky, Konstantin 1
  3. Yakobson, Leonid 1n
  4. Yakovleva, Lyubov 1
  5. Yakubov, Manashir 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
    1. ‘Shostakovich’s Antiformalist Rayok’ 1n, 2n;
    2. DDS’s connection with Sibelius 1n
  6. Yampolsky, Victor 1
  7. Yanko, Tamara 1
  8. Yanovitskaya, Lyubov’ 1
  9. Yanovitsky, Vyacheslav 1
  10. Yarustovsky, Boris M. 1, 2, 3, 4n, 5
  11. Yavorsky, Boleslav 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
    1. letters to 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
  12. Yelagin see Elagin, Yuri
  13. Yevtushenko see Evtushenko, Evgeni
  14. Yonin, Grigory 1
  15. York 1
  16. Youman, Victor: ‘Tea for Two’ (‘Tahiti Trot’) 1, 2
  17. Your Contemporary (film) 1
  18. Yudin, Gavriil Yakovlevich 1, 2;
    1. ‘Beyond the Frontiers of Past Years’ 1
  19. Yudina, Mariya: as student 1;
    1. and Yudin 1;
    2. performs Stravinsky 1;
    3. purged from Leningrad Conservatoire 1;
    4. and DDS’s Piano Sonata no. 1 2;
    5. on DDS’s Twenty-Four Preludes and Fugues 1, 2, 3;
    6. on DDS’s Thirteenth Symphony 1;
    7. books about 1
  20. Yuditsky, A. 1n, 2
  21. Yutkevich, Sergei 1, 2, 3
  1. Zabavnikov, Nikolai 1, 2, 3;
    1. see also Beethoven Quartet
  2. Zabolotsky, Nikolai 1n
  3. Zagreb 1
  4. Zagursky (director of Leningrad Maly Opera Theatre) 1, 2
  5. Zakharov, Vladimir 1, 2, 3, 4
  6. Zamyatin, Evgeni 1, 2
  7. Zanchevsky (NKVD investigator) 1
  8. Zaslavsky, David 1
  9. Zemlya i Volya group 1n
  10. Zhdanov, Andrei: walks out of Lady Macbeth 1;
    1. attacks on the arts 1, 2, 3;
    2. death 1;
    3. parodied in Rayok 1
  11. Zhilyaev, Nikolai 1, 2, 3, 4
  12. Zhitomirsky, Daniil 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
    1. ‘Dmitri Shostakovich: Reminiscences and Reflections’ 1
  13. Zhukova, Lydia 1;
    1. Epilogues 1, 2n, 3, 4
  14. Zhukovka dacha (DDS’s) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
  15. Zhukovka dacha (Rostropovich’s) 1, 2
  16. Zhuravlenko (baritone) 1
  17. Zhutovsky, Boris 1
  18. Zinoviev, Grigori 1
  19. Zoshchenko, Mikhail: and DDS 1, 2, 3, 4;
    1. and DDS’s Fifth Symphony 1;
    2. expelled from Writers’ Union 1, 2, 3
  20. Zvesda (journal) 1