Moscow A Cultural History

by Brooke, Caroline

• ISBN13: 9780195309515
• ISBN10: 0195309510
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-09-18
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

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)
Further Reading	253	(6)
Index of Literary & Historical Names	259	(6)
Index of Places & Landmarks	265