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Letter Grabar - VE Grabar

Naples, September 17, 1895

"... In Rome, I waited a whole month, a letter from a certain Verevkin, daughter of the commandant of St. Petersburg, an aristocrat who does not want to know the world and only lives for the painting. She - extraordinary connoisseur of art, her evenings are fixed Repin, who appreciates her understanding - in the sense it is much above it, a talented artist, exhibited many, but considers himself a great talent, because too much is well understood. This letter consisted of 16 pages. God, what she wrote me, what screams were heard from the rows of the letter . She writes that all of them, that our whole circle, prisosutsya as leeches, to these photos, and nobody otrovet from them. "

(Igor Grabar, "Letters from 1891 - 1917 ..", Publishing House "Nauka", Moscow, 1974)
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In the letter we are talking about the photographs (reproductions?) With the masterpieces of world art, which first came abroad Grabar, spent their last savings. As is evident from the letter, this passion took possession of them not one, but many of his friends - the art lovers.