Graphics by Maximilian Voloshin

The paper studies a less known part of Maximilian Voloshin’s artistic heritage — his graphics, variously presented on the pages of albums kept in Pushkin House Manuscript Department. The artist’s albums that he kept throughout his life, can be called a poet's note­books, as they contain not only drawings, but also poetry, draft poems, articles, notes and bibliography references, financial calculations and addresses. The works of Voloshin the artist are present on the pages of his albums in various forms. It includes self­portraits and portraits of his contemporaries: writers, musicians, artists, painters, political figures, scien­tists: Аleksandr Peshkovsky, Jakov Glotov, Maxim Kovalevsky, Elizaveta Kruglikova, RenéGhil, Anatole France, Konstantin Balmont, Valery Bryusov, Elena Davidenko, Margarita Voloshi­na, Elena Kirienko­Voloshina, Pyotr Struve, Ekaterina Junge, Aleksandr Junge, Pavel von Tesch, Polyxena Solovyova, Natalia Manaseina, Konstantin Bogaevsky, Konstantin Kandaurov, Jose­phine Bogaevskaya, Vera Efron, Elizaveta Efron, Mikhail Feldstein, Ekaterina Andreeva­Balmont, Alexey Tolstoy, Mikhail Chuiko, Elena Chichagova­Rossinskaya, Bella Feinberg and many others; pictures, landscapes. This collection of materials expands our understanding of the creative biography of the artist and poet, his literary and cultural ties, and clarifies our understanding of some events and trends in the cultural process of the early twentieth century.