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- Andrei Shimkevich
- Recipient
- Berthe Lipchitz
- Title
- Letter from Andrei Shimkevich to Berthe Lipchitz
- Date
- 24 May 1935
- Format
- Document - correspondence
- Collection
- Tate Archive
- Acquisition
- Presented to Tate Archive by Rubin Lipchitz, March 1989; the cataloguing and selective digitisation of this archive collection was supported by Mr Timm Bergold, 2023
- Reference
- TGA 897/1/3/26/12
Description
Signed 'Andre' and on the front page there is later note in English: 'Son of Berthe, Andre Shimkevitch'. Topics are mostly psychological and philosophical, especially on the depression that Andrei felt after his love Nina Dzhivelegova left him. There are also either examples of the sincere belief or attempts to deceive the censorship. Andrei writes about the mother of one of the pilots of the crashed Tupolev ANT-20 plane 'Maxim Gorky', who participated in the money collection for six more giant planes, as an example of a real mother. He also calls himself 'the child of Soviet Russia' and told that to work in such country is a true happyness.
Archive context
- Personal and professional papers of Jacques Lipchitz TGA 897 (451)
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- Correspondence TGA 897/1 (212)
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- Correspondence to and from Berthe Lipchitz (Kitrosser) TGA 897/1/3 (28)
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- Correspondence between Andrei Shimkevich and Berthe and Jacques Lipchitz TGA 897/1/3/26 (11)
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- Letter from Andrei Shimkevich to Berthe Lipchitz TGA 897/1/3/26/12