46 - BALTRUCHAITIS, Jurgis Kasimirovich (1873–1944)

BALTRUCHAITIS, Jurgis Kasimirovich (1873–1944) A collection of about twenty autograph poems in Russian, some of which are likely unpublished—approximately 20 handwritten poems, including: -"On the Night Journey - В ночном пути," dated July 22, 1923. -"On the Open Sea - В открытом море," presumably unpublished. Numerous cross-outs. "Here there is freedom… here slavery is one and the same: / A whirlwind sweeps across the sky and the depths." -"I, the Nomad - Меня кочевник," presumably unpublished. "Once again, the path lies before me… / I bow to the Master of the Earth!" -"* Underground," a poem presumably unpublished. "I hear the living flow of turbulent underground rivers / I feel their insatiable, giant-like rush" -Unpublished poem "With a Living and New Faith—С верой живой и новой," three quatrains. -Unpublished poem “All around was calm in the opaque darkness of the night—Умолкло все кругом в ночной тяжелой тьме…”. Twelve lines. -“Like a waterfall crashing against the cliffs—Как водопад добравшийся о скалы” -"Pray to the light before it’s too late - Молитесь свету, пока не поздно" -"From the bright stars… Venus" -"No one in the world may enter my temple…/ With its side chapels and its own goddesses" MC Provenance -Jurgis Kasimirovich Baltruchaïtis (1873–1944), Lithuanian diplomat and poet. -Their son, Jurgis Jurgissovich Baltruchaïtis (1903–1988), historian. -His wife, Hélène Baltruchaïtis (1908–2004), née Castel-Focillon, daughter of Henri Focillon (1881–1943). -Then through descent