A LEGACY REGAINED: NIKO AND THE RUSSIAN AVANT-GARDE

PALACE EDITIONS Contents

8 Foreword Evgeniia Petrova 9 Preface Job de Ruiter 10 Acknowledgements and Notes to the Reader John E. Bowlt and Mark Konecny 13 Introduction John E. Bowlt and Mark Konecny

Part I. Nikolai Khardzhiev and the Russian Avant Garde

Remembering Nikolai Khardzhiev

21 Nikolai Khardzhiev RudolfDuganov 24 The Future is Now! lra Vrubel-Golubkina 36 Nikolai Khardzhiev and the Suprematists Nina Suetina 43 Nikolai Khardzhiev and the Maiakovsky Museum, Moscow Gennadii Aigi 50 My Memoir of Nikolai Khardzhiev Vyacheslav Ivanov 53 Nikolai Khardzhiev and My Family Zoya Ender-Masetti 57 My Meetings with Nikolai Khardzhiev Galina Demosfenova 59 Nikolai Khardzhiev, Knight of the Avant-garde Jean-C1aude Marcade 63 A Sole Encounter Szymon Bojko 65 The Guardian of the Temple Andrei Nakov 69 A Prophet in the Wilderness John E. Bowlt 71 The Great Commentator, or Notes About the Mole of History Vasilii Rakitin

Writings by Nikolai Khardzhiev

Essays

75 Autobiography 76 Poetry and Painting:The Early Maiakovsky 81 Cubo-Futurism 83 Maiakovsky as Partisan 92 Painting and Poetry

Profiles ofArtists and Writers

99 Elena Guro 101 Boris Ender 103 In Memory of Natalia Goncharova and Mikhail Larionov 109 Vladimir Maiakovsky 122 Velimir Khlebnikov 131 Alexei Kruchenykh 135 VladimirTatlin 137 Alexander Rodchenko 139 EI Lissitzky

Contents Texts Edited and Annotated by Nikolai Khardzhiev

147 Nikolai Khardzhiev Introductions to Kazimir Malevich's Autobiography (Parts 1 and 2) 157 Kazimir Malevieh Autobiography 172 Nikolai Khardzhiev Introduction to Mikhail Matiushin's The Russian Cubo-Futurists 173 Mikhail Matiushin The Russian Cubo-Futurists 183 Alexei Morgunov A Memoir 186 Nikolai Khardzhiev Introduction to Khlebnikov Is Everywhere! 187 Khlebnikov is Everywhere! Memoirs by Oavid Burliuk, Nadezhda Udaltsova, Amfian Reshetov, and on Osip Mandelshtam 190 Nikolai Khardzhiev Introduction to Lev Zhegin's Remembering Vasilii Chekrygin 192 Lev Zhegin Remembering Vasilii Chekrygin

Part 11. Materials from the Archive of the Khardzhiev-Chaga Cultural Foundation, Amsterdam

204 Preamble John E. Bowltand Mark Konecny 205 Between Moscow and Amsterdam Geurt Imanse 205 Note from the Translator James Frank Goodwin

207 Letter to Nikolai Khardzhiev, 1940 Oaniil Kharms

Cubo-Futurism

208 Alexei Kruchenykh Declaration of the Word as Such, 1913-17 209 Roman Jakobson Letters to Velimir Khlebnikov, Alexei Kruchenykh, and others, 1914 214 Natalia Goncharova Futurism, 1914 Album, 1914? (extracts) 217 Mikhail Larionov What Is Called Cubism, 1930s? My First Meeting with Igor Grabar, 1930s? Rayonism, 1913 220 Vladimir Tatlin Letter to Mikhail Larionov, 1911 Letters to Petr Miturich, 1926 Letters to Petr Miturich, 1927 222 Olga Rozanova Letters to Alexei Kruchenykh, 1915-17 225 Vasilii Chekrygin Letter to Nikolai Punin, 1922 228 Petr Miturich A People's Commissariat of Futurism, ca. 1921

6 Contents Suprematism

230 Kazimir Malevieh Cubism, undated The Formula of Suprematism, 1923 Greeting to the Suprematists, 1917 Declaration of Suprematists, 1918 Second Declaration of Suprematists, 1918 The First Principle, 1919 Scheme of Movement of Creative Units within Infinity, ca. 1923 Creativity Cannot Be Free, ca. 1923 Energy Exists, ca. 1923 241 Ivan Kliun Suprematism as an Art of Pure Form, ca. 1916 Cultured People, ca. 1916 244 EI Lissitzky Overcoming Art (extracts), 1921 Letter to Kazimir Malevich, 1922 248 Kazimir Malevieh Letter to EI Lissitzky, 1924 249 Nikolai Punin The Impasse of Suprematism (excerpts), 1923 251 Kazimir Malevieh Polemic with Nikolai Punin et al., 1923

253 Illustrations

363 Footnotes

388 Glossary

391 Selected Bibliography

394 Name Index

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