The Mystery of Olga Chekhova (40 page)

interest in cinema

Olga Chekhova meets

invites Olga Chekhova to reception

promiscuity

breach and reconciliation with Hitler

and Olga Chekhova’s German nationality

Olga Chekhova visits

and Olga Chekhova’s divorce from Robyns

entertaining

on Italian interference

and German advance in Russia

speech on fall of Stalingrad

refuses extra petrol ration to Olga Chekhova

and children’s future

destroys papers on Red Army advance

boasts of troops’ ascent of Mount Elbrus

Goebbels, Magda

Gogol, Nikolai

The Government Inspector

Golden, Anna

Golden-Chekhova, Natalya (Misha’s mother)

marriage and children with Aleksandr

and Misha’s acting career

and Misha’s marriage to Olga Chekhova

relations with Olga Chekhova

death

Jewish origins

Göring, Hermann

entertaining

Radziwill warns against attacking Russia

at reception for Soviet delegation (1940)

blows up house before fall of Berlin

Gorky, Maxim

watches Olga Knipper perform

and Olga Knipper’s marriage

on February revolution

writes dedication for Olga Knipper-Chekhova

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 Konstantin’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

Menschen im Sturm

Merkulov, Vsevolod

‘Method’ acting

Metropolis

Meyendorff, Irene von

Meyerhold, Vsevolod

Stanislavsky attempts to promote

under Soviet threat