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