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Andrei Shimkevich, recipient: Berthe Lipchitz

Letter from Andrei Shimkevich to Berthe Lipchitz

8 June 1938

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Created by
Andrei Shimkevich
Recipient
Berthe Lipchitz
Title
Letter from Andrei Shimkevich to Berthe Lipchitz
Date
8 June 1938
Format
Document - correspondence
Collection
Tate Archive
Acquisition
Presented to Tate Archive by Rubin Lipchitz, March 1989; the cataloguing and selective digitisation of this archive collection was supported by Mr Timm Bergold, 2023
Reference
TGA 897/1/3/26/14

Description

Andrei writes from 'Chibyu', now 'Ukhta', a small city in the republic of Komi in the North, mostly inhabited by prisoners, who were busy with development of the oil-fields and logging. Andrei describes in detail in which condition arrived every item of food delivery sent to him in March and in June by Berthe. He asks for pipe tobacco, tea, soap, warm clothes (described in detail) and other items and writes that parcels usually take two months to come. Again he adds that Berthe and Jacques should not 'deprive themselves of any pleasure because of him'. He describes the local landscape and especially the various trees.

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  • Personal and professional papers of Jacques Lipchitz TGA 897 (451)
    • Correspondence TGA 897/1 (212)
      • Correspondence to and from Berthe Lipchitz (Kitrosser) TGA 897/1/3 (28)
        • Correspondence between Andrei Shimkevich and Berthe and Jacques Lipchitz TGA 897/1/3/26 (11)
          • Letter from Andrei Shimkevich to Berthe Lipchitz TGA 897/1/3/26/14
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