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DOCUMENT DOCUMENT NICOLETTA MISLER, compiler and translator A L e t t e r f r o m P. N. F i l o n o v to M. V. M a t i u s h i n The letter published below was written by the painter Pavel Nikolaevich Filonov (Moscow, 1883-Leningrad, 1941), and it is a vital document in the history o f the Russian avant-garde.1 Not fortuitously, this t e x t is often quoted by specialists, b u t in fragments. The document as a whole, however, is impor- tant, provides answers to a number o f questions concerning the avant-garde, and, therefore, deserves to be published here in t o t o , even if, visually and tex- tually, the translation cannot be faithful to the original-in view of the several lacunae and inconsistencies o f the original text. The definitive translation here was made from the original text in the collection o f the Tret'iakov Gallery, Moscow (Manuscript Section, f. XXV/11), and n o t from the several versions t h a t - l i k e most of Filonov's manuscripts-circulate privately in the Soviet Union and abroad. This letter, first and http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Canadian-American Slavic Studies Brill

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MISLER, NICOLETTA
Canadian-American Slavic Studies , Volume 16 (1): 87 – Jan 1, 1982
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© 1982 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0090-8290
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10.1163/221023982X00560
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DOCUMENT NICOLETTA MISLER, compiler and translator A L e t t e r f r o m P. N. F i l o n o v to M. V. M a t i u s h i n The letter published below was written by the painter Pavel Nikolaevich Filonov (Moscow, 1883-Leningrad, 1941), and it is a vital document in the history o f the Russian avant-garde.1 Not fortuitously, this t e x t is often quoted by specialists, b u t in fragments. The document as a whole, however, is impor- tant, provides answers to a number o f questions concerning the avant-garde, and, therefore, deserves to be published here in t o t o , even if, visually and tex- tually, the translation cannot be faithful to the original-in view of the several lacunae and inconsistencies o f the original text. The definitive translation here was made from the original text in the collection o f the Tret'iakov Gallery, Moscow (Manuscript Section, f. XXV/11), and n o t from the several versions t h a t - l i k e most of Filonov's manuscripts-circulate privately in the Soviet Union and abroad. This letter, first and

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