• Letting the Music Speak
• Images and Chimeras
• “A Different Kind of Boy”
• Odessa: The Light and the Dark
• “ I Have Had Three Teachers: My Father, Wagner, and Heinrich Neuhaus”
• Moscow
• World War II from the Sidelines
• Nina Lvovna
• Prokofiev
• Music, Power, and Musical Politics
• Shostakovich
• The Heartbreak
• A Pianist on the World Stage
• The Nomad
• Piano, Pianist, Music, and Audience
• The Man behind Invisible Walls
• Perestroika and Glasnost
• The Final Years
• The End
• Postlude
• The Musical Legacy
• Afterword
• Recordings by Sviatoslav Richter
• Select Bibliography
• Illustration Credits
• Index
