76 Brodsky and Volkov, Vspominaia Akhmatovu (Remembering Akhmatova), p. 49.
77 Ibid., p. 48.
78 Ibid.
79 Joseph Brodsky, in conversation with the author, New York, 1981.
80 Ibid.
81 Quoted in Neva, 2 (1989), p. 166.
82 Ibid.
83 Anatolii Afanas’ev, Polyn’ v chuzhikh poliakh (Wormwood in Alien Fields) (Moscow, 1984), p. 248.
84 Joseph Brodsky, in conversation with the author, New York, 1981.
85 Solomon Volkov, Iosif Broskii v N’iu-Iorke (Joseph Brodsky in New York) (New York, 1990), p. 20.
86 Ibid., p. 50.
87 Joseph Brodsky, in conversation with the author, New York, 1988.
88 New Criterion, 1986, special summer issue, p. 11.
89 Joseph Brodsky, in conversation with the author, Washington, D.C., 1991.
90 Literaturnaya gazeta (Literary Gazette), May 5, 1993.
91 Nikolai Chukovsky, Literaturnye vospominaniia (Literary Reminiscences), p. 46,
92 Iosif Brodskii razmerom podlinnika (Joseph Brodsky in Original Meter), p. 179.
93 Pushkin v vospominaniiakh sovremennikov (Pushkin in Reminiscences of Contemporaries), vol. 1, p. 120.
94 Quoted in Vas. Bazanov, Russkie revoliutsionnye demokraty i narodoznanie (Russian Revolutionary Democrats and Knowing the People) (Leningrad, 1974), p. 316.
95 Ibid., p. 396.
96 Knizhnoe obozrenie (Book Review), June 16, 1989.
97 Ibid.
98 Andrei Bitov, in conversation with the author, New York, 1988.
99 Ibid.
100 Ibid.
101 Andrei Bitov, in conversation with the author, New York, 1992.
102 Ibid.
103 Ibid.
104 Andrei Bitov, in conversation with the author, New York, 1988.
105 Viktor Sosnora, in conversation with the author, New York, 1987.
106 Andrei Bitov, in conversation with the author, New York, 1992.
107 Ibid.
108 Joseph Brodsky, in conversation with the author, New York, 1981.
109 Konstantin Kuzminsky, in conversation with the author, New York, 1993.
110 Ibid.
111 Ibid.
112 Alexander Zhitinsky, Puteshestvie rok-diletanta (Travels of a Rock Dilettante) (Leningrad, 1990), p. 403.
113 Ibid.
114 Vladimir Rekshan, Kaif polnyi (Total High), (Leningrad, 1990), p. 23.
115 Ibid., p. 38.
116 Ibid., p. 125.
117 Anatoly Sobchak, Khozhdenie vo vlast’ (Taking Power) (Moscow, 1991), p. 214.
118 Yu. Karyakin, Dostoevskii i kanun XXI veka (Dostoyevsky and the Eve of the Twenty-first Century) (Moscow, 1989), p. 606.
119 Sobchak, Khozhdenie vo vlast’ (Taking Power), p. 65.
120 Tsarstvennoe slovo: Akhmatovskie chteniia (Royal Word: Akhmatova’s Readings), issue 1 (Moscow, 1992), p. 41.
121 Moskovskie novosti (Moscow News), May 1, 1988.
122 Literaturnaya gazeta (Literary Gazette), August 17, 1988.
123 Komsomolskaya pravda (Komsomol Pravda), March 19, 1988.
124 Nezavisimaia gazeta (Independent Newspaper), July 16, 1992.
125 Vechernii Minsk (Evening Minsk), June 5, 1991.
126 Yegor Ligachev, in conversation with the author, New York, 1991.
127 Sovetskaia Rossiia (Soviet Russia), July 5, 1991.
128 Novoye Russkoye Slovo (New Russian Word), December 12, 1990.
129 Joseph Brodsky, in conversation with the author, Washington, D.C., 1991.
130 Ibid.
131 Novoye Russkoye Slovo (New Russian Word), October 22, 1993.
132 L. N. Gumilyov, Ot Rusi do Rossii (From Rus to Russia) (St. Petersburg, 1992), p. 255.
133 Ibid., p. 256.
134 Andrei Bitov, My prosnulis’ v neznakomoi strane (We Awakened in an Unfamiliar Land) (Leningrad, 1991), p. 38.
135 G. P. Fedotov, Sud’ba i grekhi Rossii: Izbrannye stat’i po filosofii russkoi istorii i kul’tury (Russia’s Fate and Sins: Selected Articles on the Philosophy of Russian History and Culture), vol. 2 (St. Petersburg, 1991), p. 146.
136 Joseph Brodsky, in conversation with the author, New York, 1988.
137 Ogonyok (Little Flame), 24 (1990), p. 10.
138 Bitov, My prosnulis’ (We Awakened), p. 58.
139 Iskusstvo Leningrada (Art of Leningrad), 1 (1991), p. 53.
140 Joseph Brodsky, in conversation with the author, Washington, D.C., 1992.
141 Ibid.