The Mystery of Olga Chekhova Page 29
Menschen im Sturm
Merkulov, Vsevolod
‘Method’ acting
Metropolis
Meyendorff, Irene von
Meyerhold, Vsevolod
Stanislavsky attempts to promote
under Soviet threat
supports cause of revolution
defends Stanislavsky’s production of Byron’s Cain
tortured and executed
Mikhail, Grand Duke
Miklashevsky, Igor
Miller, General Yevgenii
Mit den Augen einer Frau
Molotov, Vyacheslav
pact with Ribbentrop
visits Berlin
announces German invasion of Russia
and risk of air attack on Moscow parade
Monroe, Marilyn
Moscow
celebrates 1945 victory
anti-German riots (1915)
Bolshevik revolution in
as capital under Bolsheviks
exodus from (1917-18)
post-revolution conditions
bombed in Second World War
German assault on
wartime underground resistance movement organized
repels German threat
Moscow Art Theatre
celebrates victory (1945)
wishes to honour Olga Knipper-Chekhova
established (1898)
plays in St Petersburg (1912)
in First World War
Olga Chekhova claims to have acted with
pays salary to Stanislavsky
last production before Bolshevik revolution
unable to pay royalties to Masha
early revolutionary productions
tours in civil war
taken over by state
and absence of Kachalov group
Lenin supports
reunited with Kachalov group in Moscow
tour of Western Europe and USA
Lev appointed consultant to Music Theatre
under political suspicion
honours Gorky
Paris tour (1937)
in Second World War
fiftieth anniversary (1948)
Moskvin, Ivan
Moulin Rouge
Mühle von Sanssouci, Die
Murnau, Friedrich Wilhelm
Nabokov, Vladimir
Nacht der Entscheidung, Die
Nadia (Olga Chekhova’s Russian maid)
Narr seiner Liebe, Der
Nazis; see also Germany; Hitler, Adolf
Negri, Pola
Nemirovich-Danchenko, Vladimir
on Olga Knipper’s hand movements
affair with Olga Knipper
Olga Knipper impresses
approves of Chekhov’s love affair with Olga Knipper
differences with Stanislavsky
Stanislavsky writes to on moral decline of theatre
impressed by Kerensky
early revolutionary activities
and Kachalov group in Zagreb
and Kachalov group’s return to Moscow
and Stanislavsky’s reservations over Chekhov
warns Stanislavsky of Soviet disfavour
and Olga Knipper-Chekhova’s offer to play in The Government Inspector
employs Lev as consultant
illness
New York
Nicholas II, Tsar
and First World War
stubbornness
abdication
NKVD
persecutions
and Cheka
authorizes Lev’s trips abroad
censors letters
in Great Terror
recalls Lev to active duty
shootings and arrests in war
wartime anti-German measures
Lev’s wartime work with
in post-war Berlin
Lev withdraws from
see also KGB, OGPU
Novorossiisk
Nuremberg Laws
OGPU
Lev cooperates with
overseas operations
and Spanish Civil War
in Great Terror
see also NKVD
Olga, Princess of Yugoslavia
Olga Tschechowa Kosmetik
Ophüls, Max
Ostrovsky, Aleksandr
Enough Stupidity in Every Wise Man
Pagode, Die
Papen, Franz von
Paris
Moscow Art Theatre performs in
Pasternak, Boris
Paul, Prince of Yugoslavia
Pearl Harbor
peasants
hoard grain
repressed under Bolsheviks
anti-Bolshevism
hatred of White Army
Peck, Gregory
People
Petrograd, see St Petersburg
Picasso
Guernica
Pilyavskaya, Sofya
Podgorny (Moscow Art Theatre actor)
Poland
defeats Red Army (1919)
German invasion and partition with Russia (1939)
officers massacred
Pommer, Erich-
Prague
Pravda
Presley, Elvis
Preussische Liebegeschichte
Prokofiev, Sergei
‘Proletkult’
prostitutes
from ruined wealthy families
Vova Knipper disbelieves in existence of
Provisional Government (1917)
Prozhektor
Pushkin, Aleksandr
Rabeneck, Leo
Rachmaninov, Serge
Raddatz, Carl
affair with Olga Chekhova
Radlov, Sergei
Radziwill, Prince Janusz
Raikh, Zinaida (Meyerhold’s wife) murdered
Rasputin, Grigori
Red Army
in civil war
Poles defeat
Lev Knipper’s work with
purged
successes against Germans
advance on Berlin
Reichstag fire (Berlin)
Reinhardt, Max
Reymann, General Helmuth
Ribbentrop, Joachim von
Richter, Svyatoslav
Ried, Marina (Olga Chekhova’s niece)
Ried-Knipper, Yelena Luise (Olga Chekhova’s mother; ‘Lulu’, ‘Baba’)
background and marriage
musical interests
sympathizes with Olga Chekhova’s theatrical ambitions
and Olga Chekhova’s marriage to Misha
sends money to Olga Chekhova
Olga Chekhova hopes to remove from Soviet Union
Ried-Knipper, Yelena Luise—cont.
Olga Knipper-Chekhova sees in Moscow
at Konstantin’s death
leaves for Berlin
Lev’s concern for
appearance and manner
rebukes Goebbels
death
Robyns, Marcel
marriage to Olga Chekhova
Olga Chekhova divorces
Rökk, Marika
Romanov dynasty downfall
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano
Rostov-on-Don
Rühmann, Heinz
Ruslanova, Lydia
Russia (and USSR)
food shortages in First World War
civil war (1918—19)
conditions following revolution
typhoid epidemic (1919)
White Russians evacuated from
émigrés
artists used for political purposes
pact with Germany (1939)
Germans invade (1941)
turns tide in war
Russian Combined Services Union (ROVS)
Russo-Japanese War (1904—5)
Rust, Ada (Olga Chekhova and Misha’s daughter)
birth
fails to recognize mother
Olga Knipper-Chekhova sees as child in
Moscow
Olga Chekhova hopes to remove from Russia
grandmother Lulu’s affection for
prosperity
arrives in Berlin
directs Misha in German film
under Nazi threat for Jewish grandmother
plays in film with mother
and Red Army advance on Berlin
marriage to Rust
sends dresses to mother in Moscow
wishes to return to Russia
Rust, Vera (Olga Chekhova’s granddaughter; stage name Vera Chekhova)
Rust, Wilhelm (Olga Chekhova’s son-in-law)
Rybkina, Zoya
Saenko (Cheka commander in Kharkov)
St Petersburg (Leningrad, Petrograd)
Moscow Art Theatre plays in (1912)
in First World War
debauch and hedonism in
revolutions in
Moscow replaces as capital
under German threat
Sakharov, Andrei
Salza-Knipper, Anna (Olga Knipper-Chekhova’s mother)
Sandrock, Adele
Schaub, Julius
Schellenberg, General Walter
Schloβ Vogelöd
Schnitzler, Arthur Liebelei
Schoenberg, Arnold
Schulenberg, Count F. W. von der
Schwarze Husar, Der
Serov, General Ivan
Sevastopol
Shakespeare, William
Hamlet
As You Like It
Shchors, Colonel Igor
Shchors, Natalya
Shkurin, Colonel (of SMERSh)
Shostakovich, Dmitri
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
Seventh Symphony
condemned for ‘Formalism’
Shverubovich, Mariya (Kachalov’s granddaughter)
Shverubovich, Vadim
accompanies Moscow Art Theatre tour to Kharkov
joins White Army
typhus
on Olga Knipper-Chekhova in Novorossiisk
on Kachalov group tours abroad
friendship with Lev
volunteers for International Brigade in Spain
captured by German army
sees picture of Olga Chekhova during war
escape
post-war treatment and survival
Simonov, Konstantin
SMERSh (Soviet counter-intelligence organization)
Solodovnikovsky Theatre, Moscow
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr
Song of Russia, The
Sorge, Richard
Sorokonozhka (‘The Little Centipede’; cabaret-theatre group)
Soviet Union, see Russia (and USSR)
Sovnarkom (Council of People’s Commissars)
Spanish Civil War (1936—9)
Speer, Albert
Stalin, Joseph
and victory (1945)
signs Meyerhold’s death warrant
rise to power
holidays in Likani Palace
Stalin, Joseph - cont.
persecutions and terror
exploits Gorky
on writers as ‘engineers of the human soul’
and Spanish Civil War
xenophobia
Mandelstam traduces in poem
on Fascism
and German invasion threat
and German advance on Moscow
reaction to German invasion
stays in wartime Moscow
and assassination plot against Hitler
cancels assassination plan against Hitler
Kachalov appeals to for information on son, Vadim
Abakumov reports to
obsession with Hitler
death
plays off Beria against Abakumov
on Olga Chekhova’s post-war usefulness
and son Jakov’s imprisonment
Stalingrad (earlier Tsaritsyn)
in civil war
battle of (1943)
Stanislavsky, Konstantin (Alekseiev)
on Chekhov’s illness
career and influence
disapproves of Moscow Art Theatre decor
acting theories and methods (‘System’)
and Chekhov’s love affair with Olga Knipper
auditions and trains Misha
on separateness of art
hopes for revolution
differences with Nemirovich-Danchenko
wartime theatrical tours
on moral decline of Moscow Art Theatre
saves Misha from conscription
impressed by Kerensky
and production of The Cherry Orchard (1917)
early revolutionary productions and activities
brother and nephews shot in civil war
and Moscow Art Theatre’s tour of Ukraine in civil war
and Moscow Art Theatre under Bolshevik control
and Kachalov group in Bulgaria
and Olga Knipper-Chekhova’s wish to return to Moscow
reservations over Chekhov’s works
gives leading parts to Misha
with Moscow Art Theatre in Berlin
My Life in Art
in Germany
in USA
accused by Communists of disloyalty
Stauffenberg, Count Claus Schenck von
Stresemann, Gustav
Strindberg, August Erik XIV,
Stumpff, Colonel General Johannes
Stunde der Versuchung
Sudoplatov, Anatoly
Sudoplatov, General Pavel
on Lev’s interrogations by OGPU
exploits Lev’s contacts with émigrés
and Olga Chekhova’s collaboration with Soviet intelligence
Beria appoints to head NKVD Special Task Group
on Lev and Mariya’s special mission to Germany
brings food supplies to Lev
retains control of Lev
charged and sentenced
Sumser, Albert (Bert)