Tsvetaeva's drawings

[James Beale]

I must concur with Julia, Uli is a great person, a long time friend to
myself and our bookstore.  He is very concerned about the fate of his museum
when he is no longer around to care for it and he is hoping to find a
university or other sponsor to take and preserve his amazing collection.  If
anyone is ever in the DC, just contact him and he will open the museum for
you.  He also has helped create a small park in DC, called the Alley of
Russian Poets. (see below)

The Alley is located at the Guy Mason Center,

 3600 Calvert St., NW, Washington, D.C.  20007

(Glover Park neighborhood, Calvert and Wisconsin, near the Naval
Observatory. Parking to the left of the red brick Guy Mason Center building)


He also has a new book appearing soon. 


James Beale
Russia Online, Inc.

http://www.russia-on-line.com
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 Dear Alexandra and seelangers,

Yulii Zislin is a good friend of mine; he's an amazing enthusiast who
created a literary museum—in his apartment!—as well as memorial allies of
Russian poets and composers, more or less single-handedly, in Washington's
suburbia! I know that he will be very happy to answer any questions you
might have. And if you are in D.C., visit his museum: you will be surprised.
E-mail him at: http://www.museum.zislin.com/ I really wish any of you or
your institutions could establish long-standing contacts and in some way
support Zislin's amazing collection. While most of the libraries would not
be interested in more recent editions, as systematic as his collection might
be, he also has a great number of first editions, some with autographs, as
well as some personal items of the writers. Zislin is not young. His
collection should not be lost.

Re the drawings:

The drawings in question are copies of the originals at RGB labeled
"avtor—Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva, karandash, fond "Nikitinskie subbotniki,"
muzhskie i zhenskie golovy, 1910-e gody" (RGB—Rossiiskaia gos. biblioteka;
Nikitina is Evdokiia Nikitina who orgaznized "Nikitinskie subbotniki," a
literary "ob'edinenie," attended by Tsvetaeva in 1921-22, before
emigration.) There is no information how the drawings ended up there and, as
far as I know, there is also no proof or conclusive evidence that the
drawings are by Tsvetaeva. I saw  these drawings (or to be more precise, the
Washington copies of the drawings). In my opinion, they are student
drawings of not very good quality, most likely copies, or "adaptations," of
well-known Russian and European paintings. I remember that I could not
figure out on the spot what the sources were, but I am positive that an art
historian would identify them immediately. One was definitely a rather awful
copy of Borovikovskii's "Portrait of Naryshkina."

Julia




 


 

-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Marder <asred at COX.NET>
To: SEELANGS at BAMA.UA.EDU
Sent: Sat, 21 Jun 2008 11:07 am
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Tsvetaeva's drawings










> Dear colleagues,
> 
> I've just read a curious article penned by Yulii Zyslin. It  says that 
> Yulii Zyslin has a copy of Tsvetaeva's drawings in his museum in 
> Washington DC: http://www.kontinent.org/article_rus_4501ebae285f6.html
> 
> According to this article, Tsvetaeva drew various portraits in the 
> 1910s.... I'm just wondering whether anyone could recall any 
> references to the fact that Tsvetaeva was an artist as well as poet? 
> It's well known, of course, that her daughter and her son were 
> excellent artists but I've never heard about Tsvetaeva's drawings 
> before. It's curios, especially because there are so many notebooks 
> and letters that are deposited in various archives but I don't 
> remember any materials that feature Tsvetaeva's drawings alongside her 
> poems or letters, for example.
> 
> I'll be very grateful for any information that could shed some light 
> on this discovery!...

Don't know about shedding any light, but there's this:

http://www.museum.zislin.com/

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