78 - BALTRUCHAITIS, Jurgis Kasimirovich (1873–1944)

BALTRUCHAITIS, Jurgis Kasimirovich (1873–1944) Set of 2 manuscripts and 6 typescripts, in Russian, of short stories and fairy tales, including: - A collection of 1 handwritten and 6 typewritten short stories and fairy tales, including: -Manuscript “By the Lit Window—У освещенного окна.” Manuscript with no cross-outs, likely intended for submission to a publisher. Bound with two stitches of thread. 1920s–1930s, 7 pages. “It must have been fall when I spent an evening at my friends’ house in N. The longer the evening dragged on, the more tired the guests became, and they began to leave. I was among the first to leave. It was already past midnight. The air was biting on that cold, damp night.” "One autumn evening, I spent the evening at my friends’ house in N. The gathering—long and, as always, dull—had worn everyone out, and we began to leave. I was one of the first to go. It was already past midnight. I was enveloped by the damp, cold night air that made it hard to breathe. The space between the invisible, dimly lit glimmers of the city’s lights, the clouds, and the valley in which it stood was filled with a fog of some dim yet powerful color, motionless, heavy, resembling the deadly slits of a thousand interlocking labors.” -Manuscript of a three-act play, “Morning and Evening.” -Typescript “Balance—La pondération,” 9 p. -Typescript “The Legend of the Torches,” 6 p. -Typescript “The Incorrigible,” 8 p. -Typescript “Companions / A Fairy Tale,” 16 pp. -Typescript “Капли—The Drops,” 12 pp. -Typescript “У освящённаго окна—At the Illuminated Window,” 8 pp. 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 passed down through the family.