Aunt Olya, see Knipper Chekhova, Olga
Baake, Major von
Baarova, Lida
Babel, Isaac
Baklanova, Sofya
Baku
twenty-six commissars
Baldanov, General Nikolai
Bandrowska-Turskaya, Ewa
Barbarossa, Operation (1941)
Battle of Britain (1940)
Bifreite Hände
Bel Ami
Berezhkov, Valentin
Beria, Lavrenty
persecutes Meyerhold
makes Rybkina Olga Chekhova’s controller
violates women
in Great Terror
Beria, Lavrenty - cont.
interviews Janusz Radziwill
establishes spy network
and Mariya Melikova
disbelieves war reports on German advance
restores order in wartime Moscow
reaction to German invasion
and risk of air attack on Moscow parade
and assassination plot against Hitler
and Lev and Mariya’s bogus defection to Germans
as Olga Chekhova’s protector
sadism
on Olga Chekhova’s diary
orders Olga Chekhova’s return to Berlin
considers Olga Chekhova’s future
and newspaper attacks on Olga Chekhova
destroys Abakumov
seizes control after Stalin’s death
arrested
Berlin
Olga Chekhova first arrives in
Kachalov group visits
Russian émigré community in
Moscow Art Theatre touring company plays in
Olga Chekhova’s life and homes in
Nazi unpopularity in
bombed
Olga Chekhova moves from during war
and Red Army advance
Olga Chekhova returned to (1945)
women in
airlift (1949)
Olga Chekhova and family move house to Charlottenburg
Berliner Renaissance-Theater
Bertensson, Sergei
Berzarin, General Nikolai
Blaufuchs, Der
Blok, Aleksandr The Rose and the Cross
Blum, Vladimir
Bock, Field Marshal Fedor von
Bolsheviks
and February revolution
takeover in Moscow (1917)
low vote in 1917 election
dominance
White Army’s detestation of
Boner, Georgette
Borzhomi, Georgia
bourgeoisie
repressed
Braun, Eva
Brennende Grenze (Burning Frontiers)
Brest-Litovsk, Treaty of (1918)
Brussels
Bulgakov, Mikhail
Days of the Turbins
Burgtheater
Byron, George Gordon, Lord Cain
Cagliostro
Casablanca
Chaliapin, Feodor
Chaplin, Charlie
Cheka (security police); see also NKVD, OGPU
Chekhov family
Chekhov, Aleksandr (Anton’s brother)
writing ambitions
marriage to Natalya Golden
character and behaviour
decline and death
Chekhov, Anton
The Cherry Orchard
ill-health (consumption)
relations with Knipper family
Nemirovich-Danchenko supports
The Seagull
love affair and marriage with Olga Knipper
The Three Sisters.
medical training and practice
royalties
Olga Knipper-Chekhova reminisces about
Lenin appreciates plays
effect on émigrés
celebrations for twentieth anniversary of death
house and museum
leaves Gurzuf house to Olga Knipper-Chekhova
death
Chekhov, Ivan (Anton’s brother)
Chekhov, Mikhail (Anton’s brother)
Chekhov, Mikhail (Olga Chekhova’s husband; ‘Misha’)
in Hollywood
birth
precocity and instability
acting career
and father’s death
meets Olga
drinking
frightens Masha with pretend drunkenness
womanizing
marriage to Olga
conscription deferred
indifference to political upheavals
marriage relations
nervous breakdown
in Bolshevik revolution
and Volodya’s suicide
Olga Chekhova leaves
carves wooden chessmen
second marriage (to Xenia)
opens acting studio
plays leading roles for Moscow Art Theatre
Chekhov, Mikhail - cont.
organizes acting workspace in Moscow
plays Hamlet
fame and reputation
at Konstantin Knipper’s death
honoured in USSR
stars in The Government Inspector
and daughter’s departure for Berlin
counter-revolutionary views
leaves Russia
in Berlin and Paris
Le Château s‘éveille (with Georgette Boner)
wartime US film
death
Chekhov, Nikolai (Aleksandr’s son; ‘Kolya’)
Chekhov, Pavel (Anton’s father)
Chekhov, Sergei (Misha’s cousin)
Chekhov, Volodya (Ivan’s son)
visits Misha
meets and falls for Olga
Misha quarrels with
suicide
Chekhova, Ada (i.e. Olga; Misha and Olga Chekhova’s daughter), see Rust, Ada
Chekhova, Evgenia (Anton’s mother)
death
Chekhova, Mariya (Anton’s sister; ‘Aunt Masha’)
painting career
introduces Misha to Olga Chekhova
and Misha’s pretend drinking
in Moscow
and Olga Chekhova’s marriage to Misha
letters from Misha
typhoid and poverty
letters from Olga Knipper- Chekhova
reports Evgenia’s death
Olga Knipper-Chekhova visits in civil war
earnings from Chekhov plays abroad
Lev and Olga Knipper- Chekhova visit in Yalta
as director of Chekhov house-museum
testifies that Chekhov family of Russian Orthodox descent
in Yalta during war
Olga Chekhova writes to from post-war Berlin
Chekhova, Olga
career in Germany
honoured and exploited by Nazis
attends 1945 Moscow production of The Cherry Orchard
education
marriage to Mikhail/Misha Chekhov
meets Misha
studies art in Moscow
claims to have acted with Moscow Art Theatre
pregnancy and child
relations with mother-in-law
marriage relations
looks after daughter
leaves Misha
relations with Jaroszi
claims to carve chess pieces
remains in Moscow (1917—18)
early film roles in Russia
life after revolution
daughter fails to recognize
leaves Russia for Berlin
German films
learns German
meets Olga Knipper-Chekhova and Lev in Germany
life and homes in Berlin
collaboration in Soviet intelligence work
reputation and success in Germany
avoids romantic relationships
stage acting
filming in Italy
w
elcomes family to Berlin
travels
expensive lifestyle
learns English
makes talking pictures
travels to USA
helps Misha on arrival in Berlin
and Nazi anti-Jewish actions
association with Hitler
marriage to Marcel Robyns
retains German nationality
success in Der Blaufuchs
sends presents to family in Russia
safeguards daughter’s status in Germany
Olga Knipper-Chekhova visits on return from Paris tour (1937)
affair with Raddatz
divorces Robyns
love affair with Jep
visits German armed forces
introduced to Merkulov
on German campaign in Russia
Lev and Mariya Garikovna told to make wartime contact with
wartime German sympathies
Chekhova, Olga—cont.
sends help to Chekhov house and museum
in wartime Berlin
rumoured to have arranged Vadim Shverubovich’s escape
moves out of wartime Berlin
romance with Sumser
role in Germany questioned
on arrival of Red Army in Berlin
returned to Moscow and interrogated (1945)
Abakumov’s treatment of
Beria orders return to Berlin
loses contact with Lev
denies newspaper accounts of collaboration
in conquered Berlin
moves to West Berlin (Charlottenburg)
and Beria’s plan to reunify Germany
post-war films
sets up film company
forms and runs cosmetics company
Frau ohne Alter
Ich verschweige nichts
death from leukaemia
Chekhova, Sofya (Volodya’s mother)
Chekhova, Vera (Olga Chekhova’s granddaughter), see Rust, Vera
Chekhova, Xenia (nee Ziller; Misha’s second wife)
Choral von Leuthen, Der
Churchill, Winston
Ciano, Count Galeazzo
Comintern activities in Germany
Committee on Un-American Activities (USA)
Cossacks in civil war
Crimea
in civil war
Lev visits
purges in
in Second World War
liberated
see also Yalta
Dekanozov, Vladimir
Demyanov, Aleksandr
Deutsche Wochenschau (Nazi newsreel)
Dickens, Charles
The Cricket on the Hearth
Dietrich, Marlene
Dimitrov, Georgi
Djugashvili, Jakov (Stalin’s son)
Don Army
Drei von der Tankstelle, Die
Duse, Eleanor
Dzerzhinsky, Feliks
Ehrenburg, Ilya
Einstein, Albert
Eitingon, Nahum (‘General Kotov’)
Elbrus, Mount
Essentuki
Fairbanks, Douglas
Favorit der Kaiserin, Der
February revolution (1917)
Fike, Lamar
Forst, Willi
Franco, General Francisco
Frederick II (the Great), King of Prussia
French Revolution (1789)
Frischauer, Willi
Fröhlich, Gustav
Fuchs von Glenarvon, Der
Galland, General Adolf
Garbo, Greta
Georgia
Germany
capitulates (1945)
defeat (1918)
cinema in
Soviet intelligence operations in
economic disorder (1920s)
participation in Spanish Civil War
pact with Russia (1939)
as threat to Russia
invasion and advance in Russia
Beria’s plan to reunify
see also Berlin
Gesse, Natalya
Gest, Morris
Gestapo and censorship of letters
Glazunov, Boris
Gnesina, Yelena
Goebbels, Josef
Olga Chekhova likens to Kerensky
and low Nazi vote in Berlin
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