122 - Aleksey Mikhailovich REMIZOV (1877–1957)

Aleksey Mikhailovich REMIZOV (1877–1957) Set of 5 letters and postcards, in Russian, addressed to Jurgis Kasimirovich BALTRUCHAITIS (1873–1944), between 1915 and 1927: - July 9, 1915, Tavricheskaya St., 7, apt. 23; he asks Jurgis Kasimirovich BALTRUCHAITIS to send his poems. "Dear Yuri Kazimirovich! Please send poems for the local anthology to Malaya Posadkaya, 14, apt. 8. Get some from Vyacheslav Ivanovich and from Balmont. If you’d like, send me a few poems for Lukomorye. I’ll pass them on. Serafima Pavlovna sends her regards. Best regards to Maria Ivanovna. All the best to you.” - September 16, 1916, states that their belongings have not yet been retrieved from Terlievaia Street; the owner of apartment 5, Vladimir Alekseevich Pestovskiy, is home after 6:00 p.m., but the belongings can be accessed with a key from the office. "Dear Yuri Kazimirovich, I think our belongings from Terleva Street have not yet been removed. The owner of apartment 5 on Terleva Street is usually home around 6 p.m., (Vladimir Alekseevich Pestovsky), but even without him, we can access our belongings using the long key from the cabinet—the one with the bulge from the trunk. Alexei Remizov” —January 24, 1917, in its envelope, a letter describing the day of his freedom: "To Jurgis Baltrušaitis for the St. Petersburg coats for the Moscow troubles for the gift from Kudryavtsev on the day of my freedom a first-degree monkey badge with a monkey’s eye given to be worn LKS RZ" -January 26, 1917, a request to send poems and asking for his date of birth. "Dear Yuri Kazimirovich, I am sending you the monkey badge. There’s been no word from Arkady Pavlovich. Yuri Kazimirovich, please send a poem for *The Legion*! Kudryavtsev has also gone missing. Thank you for sending the money (?) back then. My regards to Maria Ivanovna. Best regards from Serafima Pavlovna. A. Remizov Please write to me: in what year and on what date were you born? I need this for my book *Russia in Letters* and for a certificate.” -December 23, 1921, Berlin: a long letter in which he explains that his gold items and particularly valuable manuscripts were confiscated at the Estonian border, without him understanding why. He asks Jurgis Kasimirovich BALTRUCHAITIS (1873–1944), then Lithuanian ambassador to Moscow, to clarify the situation with the Estonian ambassador. "Dear Yuri Kazimirovich, Please help us in our unfortunate predicament (...) On August 4, 1921, the former chairman of the Estonian Control Commission in St. Petersburg, A.G. Orga, was searched (his belongings inspected) in a diplomatic railcar in Yamburg, and gold items were confiscated. (I do not know to whom he was taking them), and along with his belongings, manuscripts by St. Petersburg writers were confiscated (Org heads the Reval Book Court; he is a bibliophile), and among the manuscripts were three irreplaceable ones I had given them to him for safekeeping. There is nothing political in them. Litvinov was in Reval, and, as Org told me, he promised to return the manuscripts to him in August. Before leaving for Berlin, I inquired at the Estonian *Foreign Ministry* with Sarva, the head of Russian affairs, and learned from him that this matter was no longer being handled by Litvinov, but by Menzhinsky. And that the manuscripts would be returned, and that the Estonian ambassador in Moscow knew about them. How much time has passed * * I recall— there are no manuscripts; they won’t hand them over! I told Z.G. Greenberg (the representative * in Berlin and (...) A request to you: 1) We need to find out where my manuscripts—the ones seized (on August 4 in Yamburg) by Orga—are located; the Estonian ambassador in Moscow can tell us this 2) Once you’ve found out, speak with L.B. K