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I'd like to write about Tatlin. But the more I read about it, the more difficult for me to do it. Maybe someone can help and complement.

Here is an excerpt from the memoirs Khodasevich (early 1920):
"According to rumors, which have reached me, between Tatlin and Malevich scandal. Tatlin increasingly haunted the idea that someone from the artists will take advantage of his designs, and beat him. As far as I hammer him that he himself appreciates the little that is not easy to think and work as Tatlin! "That's the way it is, it's all the same ..." - he said tragically. ...
Worried that the long not seen molecule (Maria Heinz, Tatlin's common law wife and mother of his son) and little Volodya, I went to him. With all the aging molecule, weeping, said that terrible thing has happened, but she could not do anything: she went with her son in her arms in the area - stay on the light and air - and when she returned, she saw as over a stove in front of more flames. Fire? No, Tatlin with several students burned their beautiful drawings and paintings are exhibited. She rushed to extinguish the flames - he pushed her away. His condition was close to madness. He shouted:
- Now let the looks! Open the window!
I saw that the molecule is sick of this life, especially as Tatlin began to talk about building a model aircraft, to be called "Letatlin, and the first flight on him until he weighs a little more, his son Vladimir.
After conferring with Andrei Romanovich, we decided to drag the molecule to itself (we have already moved into the house Saltykova the Champ de Mars). She did not immediately, but gave up. Tatlin did not protest. By this time he walked away from the painting. They are wholly owned by the thought of designing for the benefit of mankind, a wide variety of items: clothing, overalls, shoes, etc.
In November 1922, leaving for Berlin at the invitation of Gorky's. Molecule with her son stayed with us. Further know the stories of sister molecules. Autumn of 1924 in Leningrad tremendous flood. In the midst of his Tatlin, putting a cap snuff and matches, made his way to St. Isaac's Square in the Palace Square to the waist in the water to the family. On the street Khalturina to the Field of Mars he had to swim, breaking the waves, and flow. He came to the family.
The molecule - as I learned later from her sister - decided to go to work as a doctor in a hospital of a deaf village under Arzamas, there lived with a forester, and bore him a son. Being a man and heroic and sacrificial, it is saving someone else's child, bolevshego defteritom, sucking mouth defteritnye film (no vaccine), became infected and died. Stayed forester with two children. Intervened sister Molecules and for a long time, brought up son Tatlin, Mr. Tatlin eventually took him to her in Moscow. Next - the war, took his son to the army, he was missing, and it took many years until Tatlin realized that Vlad killed, and very grieved. "