Archive garde art Khardzhiev returned to Russia

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Archive garde art Khardzhiev returned to Russia


MOSCOW, December 14 - RIA Novosti, Svetlana Yankina Mary Ganiyants. Archive garde art researcher Nicholas Khardzhiev, who learned in part brought to Holland in 1993, returned to the Russian State Archive of Literature and Art (RGALI), told RIA Novosti its director Tatjana Goryaeva.

As a result of the meeting RGALI were about three thousand items, including newly arrived letters, articles, pictures and photos by Malevich, twisted, Khlebnikov, Burliuk Matyushin Lissitzky, Filonov, Tatlin.

Background

The plot around a valuable collection of documents the history of the avant-garde began to twist in the early 1990s, when being in old age Khardzhiev Nicholas and his wife Lydia Chaga moved to Holland and moved collected over decades and literary archive documentary work of key representatives of the Russian artistic and literary avant-garde early twentieth the century. Over the years of association with the artists managed to collect Khardzhiev also an impressive collection of picturesque, but the collector in the truest sense of the word to call it was not - work as a rule, were given by the authors. Who decided to emigrate and did not trust government investigator has agreed to help some people who promised him help in the removal of archives and collections, as well as to ensure the existence already in place.

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As told RIA Novosti Moscow club chairman Valery Dudakov collectors, the protagonist here was Christina Gmurzhinska, owner specializing in classical modernism and the Russian art gallery Gmurzynska in Cologne. Pay for assistance in leaving the country, and emigration were, according to the interlocutor of the agency, to serve some of the things from the collection Khardzhiev. "Part of the work was to pay for removal of the rest of the archive, in my opinion, it has received at least four works of Kasimir Malevich," - he explained.

However, on arrival in Amsterdam Khardzhiev it became clear that the commitments are not met. For example, the literary part of the archive was seized by customs on illegal export abroad and transferred to RGALI that have affected its integrity. In addition, a spray on private collections of his painting collection. According Dudakov, much of the valuable paintings and literary heritage simply disappeared, and Khardzhiev not received in return of the works that he had been promised Gmurzhinskoy. After some time, died under mysterious circumstances a spouse of a scientist.

The Road Home

Khardzhiev never returned to Russia, died in Amsterdam on 93-year life. Abroad, part of the archive and manage the remaining art collection was created to do during the life of a researcher fund "Khardzhiev-Chaga." It was owned by his work as a result of years of negotiation referred to the Russian Archive of Literature and Art.

"Negotiations with the fund began in 2004, various coordination lasted a couple of years, and in November 2006 an agreement was signed," - said the director RGALI.

According to her contract with the Dutch side consisted of three phases: a scientific description of both sides, microfilming of all materials and direct recovery of archives in Russia.

Meanwhile, we are talking only about the archival collections of Khardzhiev: paintings, including works by Goncharova, Larionov, Malevich and others, are still in the fund.

"We have not even had talks on the subject, with regard to painting - it is not our diocese, and paintings from the collection Khardzhiev remained abroad in different places," - said the agency interlocutor.

True, in her words, they were able to recapture some of that, the Foundation believed to belong to the artistic part of the collection - in particular, the theoretical work of Malevich with graphic images.

"The uniqueness of the archive is that the scientist in an era of anti-formalism, managed to keep evidence of the great history of great men. In those years, when disposing of dangerous things to suffer, he served as its own internal mission. Khardzhiev was not just a collector, he was scientists, for whom every autograph, every document is primarily the subject of study and grow new things, "- said the director RGALI and added that in addition to this the scientist himself initiated the creation of certain works.

For example, it was at the request of Kazimir Malevich and Nadezhda Mandelstam wrote his autobiography.

The main meaning of the return of the archive, in the opinion of Goryaeva, is to perform the last will Khardzhiev who sought his last years of his association, and the fact that it is now available to a wider range of specialists.

Future Infinity

Now in Amsterdam and Moscow scientists can study the collected Khardzhiev heritage vanguard of microfilm that you could not do before. In both cities, they are completely identical, and the necessity of their use dictates the fragility of the originals.

"In the past experts, who came to Amsterdam, became acquainted with the Dutch part of the archive and did some publications in various scientific journals, you can now begin to study the system heritage avant-garde", - said Goryaeva.

According to her, already started to develop the concept of research publications.

"Everything that could Khardzhiev he did in his life - has collected and preserved, and our task was to carry out his last wish - to reunite the archive and save it for future infinity, in the words of Malevich," - said the agency interlocutor.

In addition, she noted, with the Dutch side is negotiating to organize a major international exhibition, which would unite and archive, and picturesque part of the collection of the scientist.

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