1 Zoya, Mitya and Mariya at Irinovka, 1911

2 Sofiya Vasilyevna, 1878–1955

3 Dmitri Boleslavovich Shostakovich, 1875–1922

4 Ignati Glyasser’s class, 1918. Boris Lossky kneeling bottom left, Glyasser seated middle with Mariya at right of him. DDS seated front row second form right

6 Alexander Glazunov, Director of the Petrograd and Leningrad Conservatoires

8 DDS with Ivan Sollertinsky and Nina Varzar, 1932

10 DDS playing the Piano Quintet with the Glazunov Quarter, who gave the Leningrad premiere in December 1940

11 Portrait by Nikolai Sokolov of DDS playing cards, Kuibyshev, 1941

13 At a football match, 1940s

15 DDS at Ivanovo with Galya and Nina, early 1940s

17 Flora Litvinovo

18 DDS with students, late 1940s. Karen Khachaturian far left

20 DDS with Isaak Glikman

22 With Oleg Prokofiev at the unveiling of the plaque in memory of his father, 11 February 1958. See Oleg’s own commentary to this picture in main text

23 DDS with Evgeni Mravinsky, 1961

25 DDS with Marina Sabinina, assembled musicologists and army members, early 1960s

27 Premiere of Thirteenth Symphony with Kirill Kondrashin (centre) and Evgeni Evtushenko (right), 1962

29 Premiere of Fourteenth Symphony, DDS with Galina Vishnevskaya, Mark Reshetin, Rudolf Barshai and members of the Moscow Chamber Orchestra, 1968

31 DDS speaking at Composers’ Union Congress, Tikhon Khrennikov seated, late 1960s

32 Mstislav Rostropovich, Kurgan, 1970

34 DDS at a rehearsal of the Fifteenth Quartet, with Irina Shostakovich and Vladimir Ovcharek, 1974

35 With Benjamin Britten, April 1971

37 With Evgeni Shenderovich and Evgeni Nesterenko, December 1974

38 Vissarion Shebalin

39 Isaak Schwartz

40 Fyodor Druzhinin