Nell Rapport, Ništa Niko and 4 others
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Sofia Tolstoy
Yasnaya Pol'yana, Tul'skaya guberniya, Russian Empire
Tania loudly read "Childhood", by Leo Tolstoy, to us. What a feeling of freshness! But there were some weaker moments.
Ništa Niko, Georgiana Ciobanu and 1 other
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Mikhail Larionov
publishes his book Radiantismo
Rome, Italy
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Mikhail Lavrionov. "Blue Rayonism". 1915
It is almost like a mirage appearing in the scorched air of the desert, painting exotic cities, lakes and oases in the sky: Rayonism blurs those lines which exist between the painted canvas and nature.
Sara Lomasz Flesch, Gloria V Nijensohn Stokol and 4 others
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Sergei Yesenin
Tsarskoye Selo, Russian Empire
Thes past few days I have lost my wits and shaved my head, my scalp has already dried up completely/my scalp is now extremely dry. I’ll fly a little.
Bernhard Living, Ništa Niko and 2 others
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04 March
A tender letter to the wife of the future orchestrator of the Red Terror
One of the Empress’s ladies-in-waiting: “Not far from the Winter Palace, I personally saw a slogan that read ‘Down with the Tsar!’”
Choreographer Léonide Massine talks about his work with Picasso and Cocteau
Felix Dzerzhinsky
Butyrskaya prison, Moscow, Russian Empire
My dearest Zosya,
Here, in prison I can’t keep a postcard even from our young son. I was hoping they would give me at least one day to look at it. Perhaps even more. I have Yasik’s postcard before me, written by him, and his words, thoughts, and feelings make me smile. How happy I am with you, my dear, I would release bubbles in the air, so that they, colorful and beautiful, floated slowly, and we would follow them, with our heads craned and blowing so they didn’t fall.
And I think when you grow up, and you'll be big and strong, we will teach ourselves how to fly a plane. We’ll fly like birds, to the high mountains, to the clouds in the sky, and the towns and villages, fields and forests, valleys and rivers, lakes and seas—the whole beautiful world—will be below us. And the sun will be above us, and we'll fly. My Yasik, don’t worry that I'm no longer with you. It can’t be otherwise. I love you, my sweetheart. You are my joy though I can only see you in my thoughts and dreams. You’re my entire happiness. Be good, kind, cheerful and healthy. Always be happy for mommy, me, and the people so that when you grow up, work, and enjoy your work and please others, and be an example to them. I kiss you and hug tightly, my sonny boy.
Ništa Niko, Georgiana Ciobanu and 2 others
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Sophie Buxhoeveden
Winter palace, St. Petersburg, Russian Empire
Not far from the Winter Palace, scrawled on the wall of the Staff Headquarters, I personally saw a slogan that read ‘Down with the Tsar!’ It was erased – only to reappear the next morning. When my carriage got caught in a traffic block, a passerby deliberately spat through the open window: no one was even attempting to camouflage their hostility now.
Lisa May Davidson
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Amedeo Modigliani
Paints "Reclining Nude"
Emil Gudo's square, 13, Paris, France
Sara Lomasz Flesch, Gloria V Nijensohn Stokol and 2 others
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Leonide Massine
Rome, Italy
It’s difficult to convey the excitement of working with artists like Picasso and Cocteau. Every time we met in the Piazza Venezia in Rome to exchange ideas, sparks would fly across the room. Any innovation – sound effects, Cubist-style costumes, megaphones – would engender a fresh new chain of ideas. It seemed to me that Cocteau’s indefatigable imagination served to stimulate the complex artistic vision of Picasso.
Gloria V Nijensohn Stokol, Ništa Niko and 1 other
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Olga Rozanova Mikhail Matushin
ap. 38, 10, Sadovo-karetnaya street, Moscow, Russian Empire
My most esteemed Mikhail Vasilyevich!
The art collective Supremus is soon to begin publishing a journal of the same name. It will be periodical and make no pretences at impartiality. Its programme is to be Suprematism in paintings, sculpture, architecture, music, new theatre e.t.c. Its content will be articles, news, letters, aphorisms, poems, reproductions of Suprematist paintings and craftworks, articles in fiction and non-fiction e.t.c.
Aware of your sympathies for our movement, the art collective Supremus invites your participation in the journal and, should you be interested, invites you to send at your first possible convenience any articles on art, criticism or other related fields which you have currently written and ready for publication. You have, I believe, previously heard from Kazimir Severinovich concerning our project and the character of the proposed journal.
I have now moved to Moscow where I am considering establishing myself on a more permanent footing. Contributors to the journal will include members of the Supremus collective such as Udaltsova, Popova, Klyun, Menkov, Pestel, Arkhipenko, Davydova, Rozanova and others. Malevich is to be editor. We are to have poems from Kruchenykh, Alyargov and others.
With respect, Olga Rozanova
Bernhard Living
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03 March
The strike at the Putilov plant
“The French couldn’t care less what’s going on inside the country – provided Russia’s fighting well”
Modigliani finishes a new painting
Maurice Paleologue
10, Kutuzov embankment, Petrograd, Russian Empire
I have just been told of a long conversation which took place recently between the Empress and Monsignor Theophanes, the Bishop of Viatka. This prelate is a creature of Rasputin, but the way he spoke to his sovereign shows that he has a sensible and independent mind.
The Tsarina first asked him about the attitude of his flock towards the war. Monsignor Theophanes replied that the spirit of patriotism had not waned in his diocese which lies west of the Urals: of course the public was suffering from so long a trial; there was grumbling and criticism, but men were willing to put up with many more losses and much more privation in the cause of victory. He could reassure the Empress on that point. But in other respects he had much to worry and grieve him; he had observed that the demoralization of the people was making alarming progress every day. The men who returned from the army, sick, wounded, or on leave, were giving utterance to scandalous opinions; they openly professed unbelief and atheism and did not even shrink from blasphemy and sacrilege. Anyone could see at once that they had been in touch with intellectuals and Jews.
The cinemas, which had now spread to every little provincial town, were now another cause of degeneration. Melodramatic adventures and scenes of robbery and murder were too heady for simple souls such as moujiks:they fired their imaginations and turned their heads. It was thus that the bishop accounted for the unwonted number of sensational crimes of violence which have been recorded in recent months not only in the diocese of Viatka but the neighbouring dioceses of Ekaterinburg, Tobolsk, Perm and Samara. In support of his statements, he showed the Empress photographs of looted shops, sacked houses and mutilated corpses, all of them obviously showing the handiwork of audacious criminality. He, then castigated a wholly modern vice---morphia-taking---of which the masses in Russia had not even heard until quite recently. The evil had come from all the military hospitals with which the country is dotted.