‘‘Letter from Mikhail Shimkevich to Berthe Lipchitz‘, Mikhail Shimkevich, recipient: Berthe Lipchitz, October 1934‘, Mikhail Shimkevich, recipient: Berthe Lipchitz, October 1934 – Tate Archive

Mikhail Shimkevich, recipient: Berthe Lipchitz

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Created by: Mikhail Shimkevich
Recipient: Berthe Lipchitz
Title: Letter from Mikhail Shimkevich to Berthe Lipchitz
Date: October 1934
Description: Mikhail writes that Andrei will come back to him in twelve days. That he is has contracted malaria while he was in Bolshevo (an NKVD prison-commune near Moscow). Mikhail asks to send him money via Torgsin in order to buy winter clothes and food for Andrei. He writes that it is impossible to get any annual leave for him now, but he will try to. Pages are numbered later in red ink.
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 897/1/3/27/7