in Germany
friendship with Lenin
Stalin attempts to persuade to return
accepts Soviet regime
Gorky Park, Moscow
Gorskaya, Lisa
Great Terror (USSR)
Grechko, General Andrei
GRU (Soviet military intelligence)
Guderian, General Heinz
Gun, Dr Nerin E.
Gurzuf
Gusev, Viktor
Hamsun, Knut
Hess, Rudolf
Himmler, Heinrich
Hindemith, Paul
Hitler, Adolf
admires Olga Chekhova
obsession with cinema
sees film of Die Mühle von Sanssouci
rise to power
Adele Sandrock confronts
Olga Chekhova’s association with
views on art
fury at Goebbels’s infidelity
and Olga Chekhova’s marriage
racist theories
attends festivities
and invasion of USSR
Molotov visits (1940)
sends Christmas parcel to Olga Chekhova
threatens to destroy Moscow
Russian assassination plots against
ceases watching films during war
officers’ plot against (1944)
final reception before fall of Berlin
Olga Chekhova despises
Stalin’s obsession with
Hollywood
Misha in
Olga Chekhova in
Ibsen, Henrik
A Doll’s House (adapted as silent movie Nora)
Ilin, Viktor
lllustrierte Blatt, Das
intelligentsia (artists and writers) under dictatorships
International Brigade (Spanish Civil War)
Iran
Italian Straw Hat, The (René Clair film)
Italy
Olga Chekhova visits
Japan attacks USA
Jarnach, Philip
Jaroszi, Ferenc
Jep (German airman)
Jews persecuted by Nazis
Kachalov, Vasily (Shverubovich)
First War theatrical tours
and theatrical tour in civil war
in Bulgaria
on Lev’s devotion to Olga Knipper-Chekhova
plays in Prague
in Berlin
returns to Moscow
on tour to Paris (1937)
and son Vadim Shverubovich’s capture in war
attends sick Nemirovich-Danchenko
and Olga Chekhova’s post-war return to Russia
Olga Knipper-Chekhova visits after war
Kalinin
Katyn forest massacre
Kaufmann (Jewish actor)
Keitel, General Wilhelm
Kerensky, Aleksandr-4
KGB; see also NKVD
Kharkov
captured by Denikin in civil war
Khludov, General
Khmelev, Nikolai
Khrushchev, Nikita
Kirov, Sergei
Kitzbühel
Kluge, Field Marshal Günther von
Knipper family
Knipper, Ada (Olga Chekhova’s sister)
childhood in Georgia
in Moscow after revolution
daughter in Moscow
Olga Knipper-Chekhova visits in Moscow
moves to Berlin
acting in Paris
stays with newly married Olga Chekhova in Brussels
Knipper, Ada - cont.
requests genealogical document from Masha
and Red Army advance on Berlin
owns cow in Germany
Olga Knipper-Chekhova writes to after war
Olga Chekhova complains to on enlargement of cosmetics company
Knipper, Andrei (Lev and Lyubov’s son)
birth
stays in Olga Knipper- Chekhova’s apartment
Olga Chekhova sends presents to
and Armand’s release
suffering in war
returns to Moscow with mother
Knipper, Anna (Olga Knipper- Chekhova’s mother), see Salza-Knipper, Anna
Knipper, Konstantin (Olga Chekhova’s father)
engineering career
position in Ministry of Transport
and son Lev’s reaction to music
forbids theatrical career to Olga Chekhova
and Olga Chekhova’s marriage to Misha
survives revolution
moves to Siberia after revolution
in civil war
returns to Moscow
illness
letters to Olga Knipper Chekhova in USA
death
temper
Knipper, Leonard (Olga Knipper Chekhova’s father)
Knipper, Lev (Olga Chekhova’s brother)
as White Guard officer
invalid childhood
musical talents and vocation
father’s career hopes for
upbringing and schooling
in Moscow during First World War
volunteers for army
commissioned in army
in civil war
leaves Russia
joins Olga Knipper-Chekhova in Zagreb
returns to Moscow (1922)
composing
collaborates with state security organs
ill-health returns
on tour of West with Moscow Art Theatre
Olga Knipper-Chekhova joins with Olga Chekhova in Germany
recruits Olga Chekhova for intelligence work
Olga Chekhova seeks to help
and father’s death
requests money
style and manner
self-belief
returns to Berlin with Olga Knipper-Chekhova
appeal to women
‘Fairy Tales of a Plaster Idol’ performed in Moscow
visits Crimea
North Wind
marriage and child
as musical adviser to Red Army
rock climbing and mountaineering
Third (‘Far Eastern’) Symphony
Fourth Symphony (later The Komsomol Soldier opera)
privileges and recognition in Russia
‘Polyushko polye’ (song)
political harshness
relations and marriage with Mariya Melikova
trains Red Army in mountain warfare
on German advance across Russia
visits Olga Knipper-Chekhova in Caucasus
in Moscow during Second World War
in Russian underground resistance movement
proclaims patriotism
honoured in USSR
wartime musical experiences
bogus defection plan to Germans
returns to Moscow (1943)
conducting
relations with Beria
with sick Olga Knipper Chekhova in Crimea
loses contact with Olga Chekhova
visits Olga Knipper-Chekhova in Crimea after war
leaves Mariya Garikovna
music falls from favour
travelling in Siberia
death
Count Cagliostro
Knipper, Lyubov (née Zalesskaya; Lev’s wife)
marriage and child
Armand helps in war
returns to Moscow from Tashkent
marriage to Anosov
visits Olga Knipper-Chekhova in Crimea
Knipper, Margo (Vova’s wife)
Knipper, Vladimir (Olga Knipper Chekhova’s brother)
studies law
operatic career
and Olga’s marriage to Misha
Knipper, Vladimir - cont.
threatened in Bolshevik revolution
discourages Lev from musical career
letters to Olga Knipper Chekhova in USA
letter from Olga Knipper Chekhova in Berlin
at Kon
stantin’s death
and Olga Chekhova’s association with Hitler
in Second World War
Olga Knipper-Chekhova sends money to
death
Knipper, Vova (Vladimir’s son)
on Olga Knipper-Chekhova’s room in Moscow
and Lev’s composing
Olga Chekhova sends childhood gifts to
and NKVD interrogators
on Olga Chekhova and Olga Knipper-Chekhova in Berlin
admires Lev
innocence
wartime rations
and Olga Knipper-Chekhova’s departure for Caucasus
in wartime Moscow
romance and engagement with Margo
army service
given Olga Chekhova’s post-war deposition and papers
and Olga Knipper-Chekhova’s illness in Crimea
behaviour in war
Knipper, Yelena Luise (Olga Chekhova’s mother), see Ried-Knipper, Yelena Luise
Knipper-Chekhova, Olga (Anton’s wife; ‘Aunt Olya’)
plays in 1945 production of The Cherry Orchard
in civil war (1919)
as émigrée
under Soviet disfavour
acting style
background
love affair and marriage with Chekhov
as Nemirovich-Danchenko’s mistress
birth and parentage
childhood
fondness for Lev Knipper
musical interests
in Aleksei Tolstoy’s Tsar Feodor
Olga Chekhova stays with in Moscow
reaction to Misha’s marriage to Olga Chekhova
First World War theatrical tours
letters to Masha after revolution
dyes hair
and food shortages in early revolution days
on pointlessness of revolution
life under Bolsheviks
and theatrical tour in civil war
arthritis
and Olga Chekhova’s departure from Russia
helps Lev leave Russia
plays in Bulgaria
letter from Olga Chekhova on first stage role
homesickness for Moscow
in Prague
returns to Moscow (1922)
supports Lev’s musical interests
on tour of West with Moscow Art Theatre
letters from Lev
visits Olga Chekhova in Berlin
and death ofKonstantin
letters from Olga Chekhova in Berlin
returns to Berlin with Lev (1924)
on celebrations for twentieth anniversary of Chekhov’s death
stays with Masha in Yalta
suspected of denouncing rivals in Moscow Art Theatre
Ada Knipper writes to
and Lev’s political harshness
under surveillance on Moscow Art Theatre tour to Paris (1937)
Second World War activities
evacuated to Caucasus
and Vadim Shverubovich’s capture in war
anxiety over Lev in wartime Moscow
meets Mariya Garikovna Melikova
travels to Yerevan with Moscow Art Theatre
anxiety over Masha in war
on Olga Chekhova’s role in Germany
letter from Ada on liberation by Red Army
receives parcel of clothes meant for Olga Chekhova
illness in Crimea
awarded Order of Lenin
visits Kachalov dacha after war
and Misha’s death in USA
death
Kobulov, General Bogdan
Kochubei, Prince
Kolchak, Admiral Aleksandr
Konev, Marshal Ivan
Konrad, General
Kosygin, Aleksei
Krokodil
Krupskaya, Nadezhda (Lenin’s wife)
Kryukov, General V. V.
Kuibyshev
Kurier
Kutepov, General Aleksandr
Lang, Fritz
Last Adventures of Arsène Lupin, The
Leander, Zarah
Lenin, Vladimir
and February revolution
and civil war
scorns proletarian culture
supports Stanislavsky and Moscow Art Theatre
and return of Kachalov group
pursues counter-revolution abroad
authorizes Moscow Art Theatre tour of West
and expected German revolution
suffers strokes
friendship with Gorky
Leningrad, see St Petersburg
Levitan, Isaak
Liebelei
Likani Palace, Borzhomi
Lloyd, Harold
Lorenz, Konrad
Love on Command
Lubitsch, Ernst
Ludendorff, Field Marshal Erich von
Lunacharsky, Anatoly
Lvov, Prince Georgi
Madame Dubarry
Maklyarsky, Lieutenant-Colonel of State Security Mikhail
Mamontov, General K. K.
Mandelstam, Nadezhda
Mandelstam, Osip
Mandelstam, Yevgeny
Margo (Vova’s wife), see Knipper, Margo
Mariya (servant of Natalya Golden-Chekhova)
Mariya Garikovna, see Melikova, Marina
Marsia, Lieutenant-Colonel of State Security
Mayakovsky, Vladimir
Mayer, Louis B.
Meer, Das
Melikov, Garik
Melikova, Marina (Mariya) Garikovna
relations with Lev
works for Soviet intelligence
marriage to Lev
wartime resistance activities
receives medal from NKVD
bogus defection plan to Germans
returns to Moscow (1943)
relations with Beria
visits Olga Knipper-Chekhova in Crimea
admiration for Lev’s music
Lev leaves
dismissed from KGB and recalled
death