Zoya Shergina. "THE GREATEST SHOW ON THE EARTH" IN POST CARDS

Dedicated to rare postcards from the personal collection of the artist M.F. Larionov shows the history of one of the world’s greatest circuses: “The Barnum and Bailey Circus”. The postcards, printed from watercolor drawings in the technique of color lithography, depict various types of circus art.

Личность и творчество известного танцора и балетмейстера Сержа Лифаря (Сергея Михайловича Лифаря, 1905-1986), чья жизнь с 1923 года проходила в эмиграции, не оставляли равнодуш­ными современников и вызывали либо хвалебно-восторженную реакцию, либо резко негативную. Поводом к размышлениям над этим парадоксом стали архивные материалы и некоторые издания из библиотеки художника М. Ф. Ларионова с его пометками и с автографами Лифаря, которые хранятся в отделе рукописей в на­учной библиотеке Государственной Третьяковской галереи.

Zoya Shergina. "THE FLIGHT OF ICARUS" OR "THE DANCING DEMON"?

The personality and art of the famous dancer and choreographer Serge Lifar (Sergei Mikhailovich Lifar, 1905-1986), who emigrated in 1923, never made his contemporaries indifferent; they either adored or hated him. Archival materials and some publications from the library of the artist M. F. Larionov with his notations and Lifar autographs held by the Manuscript Department of the Scientific Library in the State Tretyakov Gallery are the occasion for reflections on the nature of this paradox.

Zoya Shergina. "POET OF THE BOOK": MIKHAIL SEMENOVICH BAZYKIN

Devoted to Mikhail Bazykin (1900-1930), passionate bibliophile and collector in Russia during the eventful 1920^s. First employed at the Tretyakov Gallery, he worked there briefly, though he managed to pursue the idea of creating a scientific library, later brought to fruition without his participation. He worked in the Russian Society of Friends of the Book, the Russian Bibliographic Society of Moscow State University, the State Academy of Artistic Sciences, the Leningrad Ex-libris Society, and the State Publishing House. Bazykin, in contact with outstanding scientists, bibliophiles, and artists of that time, assembled a unique library, an excellent bookplate collection and prints, all passing to the Tretyakov Gallery after his tragic death.