Portrait of Lenin by Yuri Annenkov, Moscow (1921)

The Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Library • 30-06-2014

Описание: Boris Souvarine Papers - Soviet Russia Photos graduateinstitute.ch/home/research/library/archives/boris... Notes: This document is a photographic reproduction of a portrait of Lenin, made by Russian avant-garde artist Yuri (Georges) Annenkov (1889-1974) in Moscow, 1921. It is part of a small collection, gathered by Boris Souvarine, presumably consisting of a series of portraits of Bolshevik leaders drawn by this artist. As a French delegate to the IIIrd International, Boris Souvarine met several times Lenin, about whom he wrote that he was a comrade "simple, modest, friendly, attentive to others' opinions" (quoted by Jean-Louis Pann'e in Boris Souvarine: le premier d'esenchant'e du communisme. Our translation). A student of Felix Vallotton in Paris (1911-1914), Yuri Annenkov was initiated to futurism and cubism. Back in Russia, he belonged to the avant-garde artists, among whom were Larionov, Malevitch, Tatline, Kandinsky. Close to the Bolsheviks, he executed portraits of the Lenin, Trotski, Stalin, Zinoviev, Radek, Gorki, etc. In 1920, he was appointed professor to the Vkhutemas (state art and technical schools) created by Lenin, and charged with the theatrical design of two mass spectacles: "The Hymn to Liberated Labour" and "The Storming of the Winter Palace". His collection of political portraits is gathered in Portraits, first published in Saint-Petersburg in 1922, and prefaced by Anatoli Lunatcharski, Soviet People's Commissar of Education responsible for culture and education. In 1924, Yuri Annenkov left Russia for Germany, then France, where he worked as a prolific theater decorator. The back of the document reads: "L'ART EN PHOTOGRAPHIE - Studio Yves Hervochon" (Paris). Description: 1 photograph. Black and white ; 23.5 x 16.5 cm. Sources and further reading: Amiard-Chevrel Claudine. 1968. "Le th'e^atre et le peuple en Russie sovi'etique de 1917 `a 1930". In : Cahiers du monde russe et sovi'etique. Vol. 9 N°3-4. Juillet-D'ecembre 1968. pp. 365-385. [Available online] url : www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/cmr_0008-... Annenkov, Yuri. 1966. Dnevnik moikh vstrech: tsikl tragedii = People and portraits : a tragic cycle. New York, N.Y.: Inter-Languages Literary Associates. 2 Vol. “Hommage `a Georges Annenkov” by Waldemar George in vol. 1, pp. 12-20; “A Note on Annenkov’s Drawings” by Alexis Rannit, vol. 2, pp. 5-11. Annenkov, Yuri. "Peinture et r'evolution : propos de L'enine et de Trotsky sur l’art pictural d’apr`es les souvenirs d’un portraitiste officiel". Translated by Pavel Chinsky in : Labyrinthe, 6 | 2000. [Available online] url : labyrinthe.revues.org/408 Banham, Martin. 1988. The Cambridge Guide to World Theatre. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (biographical notice p.28). Pann'e, Jean-Louis. 1993. Boris Souvarine: le premier d'esenchant'e du communisme. Paris: R. Laffont. (Chapter "D'el'egu'e au Komintern". Quotation p. 101). Valentinov, N. 1964. Mes rencontres avec Lenine. [Paris]: Plon.