Moscow A Cultural History

Caroline Brooke explores the way in which Moscow has reinvented itself over the years and the fascination it has exerted over the many writers, artists, and composers who made the city their home.

Foreword by Donald Rayfield

v

Preface

xi

Introduction

xvii

A City So Irregular

xix

Chapter One: The Kremlin

1

(32)

Founding Legends

3

(2)

The Kremlin Churches

5

(3)

Kremlin Cathedrals

8

(5)

The Development of the City

13

(2)

The Seventeenth Century

15

(5)

Peter the Great: Moscow Abandoned

20

(5)

Napoleon: Invasion and Conflagration

25

(2)

Reconstruction and Revolution

27

(3)

The Soviet Kremlin

30

(3)

Chapter Two: Red Square

33

(26)

St. Basil's

37

(3)

The Lenin Mausoleum

40

(4)

The Kazan Cathedral

44

(1)

GUM and the Hotel Rossiya

45

(1)

Ulitsa Varvarka and the Plague Riots, 1771

46

(3)

Zhukov's Statue

49

(1)

The Alexander Gardens

50

(1)

Manezh Square

51

(3)

The Manège

54

(1)

Hotel Moscow

55

(4)

Chapter Three: City of Upheaval

59

(20)

Radical Circles

59

(4)

1905: Krasnopresnenskaya

63

(3)

War, Revolution and Civil War

66

(5)

Symbols of Revolution

71

(3)

Red Terror

74

(3)

New Economic Policy

77

(2)

Chapter Four: Red Moscow—City of Soviets and Since

79

(34)

The General Plan

80

(2)

The Cathedral of Christ the Saviour

82

(2)

The Moscow Metro

84

(3)

The Great Terror: The Solovetsky Stone

87

(3)

The Great Patriotic War, 1941-45: The Moscow Panic

90

(3)

Victory Park

93

(3)

Trophy Art at the Pushkin Museum

96

(1)

Stalin's Death

97

(1)

KGB Agents and the Cold War

98

(2)

The Exhibition of Economic Achievement

100

(1)

The Late Soviet Era

101

(4)

Signs of Change

105

(1)

The White House

106

(2)

Memorials and "Patriots"

108

(1)

Post-Soviet Moscow and Chechen Terrorism

109

(4)

Chapter Five: City of Writers

113

(32)

Alexander Pushkin

113

(3)

Nikolai Gogol

116

(3)

Mikhail Lermontov and Fyodor Dostoevsky

119

(1)

Lev Tolstoy

120

(3)

Andrei Belyi and Alexander Blok

123

(1)

Vladimir Mayakovsky

124

(3)

Sergei Yesenin

127

(3)

Maxim Gorky

130

(3)

Boris Pasternak

133

(3)

Mikhail Bulgakov

136

(3)

Marina Tsvetaeva

139

(3)

Osip and Nadezhda Mandelstam

142

(3)

Chapter Six: City of Theatres and Music

145

(38)

The Bolshoi Theatre

145

(4)

The Maly Theatre

149

(3)

Private Theatres

152

(1)

The Private Opera

152

(3)

Anton Chekhov and the Moscow Art Theatre

155

(6)

Malaya Bronnaia Theatre

161

(1)

Vsevolod Meyerhold

161

(3)

The Taganka Theatre

164

(1)

MUSICAL MOSCOW

165

(1)

Pyotr Tchaikovsky and Moscow Conservatoire

165

(3)

Sergei Rachmaninov

168

(2)

Alexander Scriabin

170

(2)

Sergei Prokofiev

172

(2)

Dmitry Shostakovich

174

(4)

Bulat Okudzhava

178

(2)

Vladimir Vysotsky

180

(3)

Chapter Seven: City of Rich and Poor

183

(32)

The Pashkov Mansion

183

(1)

The Nobles' Club

184

(2)

The Moscow English Club

186

(1)

The Old Equerries Quarter

187

(2)

Moscow Style Moderne

189

(2)

The Good Life

191

(2)

Yeliseev's and the Sandunovsky Baths

193

(1)

Higher Education

194

(3)

Merchants' Moscow

197

(7)

Foreigners in Moscow

204

(2)

Jewish Moscow

206

(1)

POOR MOSCOW

207

(1)

The Imperial Foundling Home

208

(1)

The Labouring Poor

209

(3)

The Khitrov Market

212

(3)

Chapter Eight: City of Utopias and Slums

215

(22)

Social Engineering

217

(4)

Migration and Overcrowding

221

(3)

A Room of One's Own

224

(1)

Internal Passports

224

(3)

Elite Housing

227

(4)

"Khrushchev-slums" and "Micro-Regions"

231

(3)

Post-communism

234

(3)

Chapter Nine: City of Palaces and Monasteries

237

(16)

Lefortovo

237

(2)

Izmailovo

239

(1)

The Petrovsky Palace and Khodynskoe Field

239

(2)

Kolomenskoe

241

(3)

Tsaritsyno

244

(2)

Moscow's Monasteries

246

(5)

The Sheremetyev Estates: Kuskovo and Ostankino

251

(2)

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