Каталог «Хлебниковской коллекции» Дома-музея Велимира Хлебникова

КАТАЛОГ «ХЛЕБНИКОВСКОЙ КОЛЛЕКЦИИ» ДОМА-МУЗЕЯ ВЕЛИМИРА ХЛЕБНИКОВА

ees could identify some family pictures in it). The

Museum rooms widely exhibit the paintings and

graphics by Vera Khlebnikova, as well as the ones

by Petr and May Miturich.

Such a plenty of the authentic (Khlebnikov)

relics made the Khlebnikov Museum a unique

focus of the Russian culture.

As far as the family collection was examined,

the Museum research was accumulated and then

published in various scientific volumes of the uni-

versities of Amsterdam, Lion, Florence, Sao-Paulo,

the IWL (Institute of the World Literature,

Moscow), the RussianMuseum (Saint-Petersburg),

in other prestigious publishing houses.

The unique and only museumof Velimir Khleb-

nikov in the world is known far beyond Astrakhan

and Russia. And here is the great deserve of May

Miturich-Khlebnikov, a donator of the highly arti-

stic and scientifically significant ‘Khlebnikov Col-

lection’. However, it is mainly known to the

Astrakhan audience only – the schoolchildren, stu-

dents, teachers; the college and university profes-

sors. A vital necessity emerges for publishing

a catalogue of the Khlebnikov family collection. It

opens new opportunities for studying the life and

creative work of the poet Velimir Khlebnikov. It

can show obviously the family he grew in, the peo-

ple he was surrounded by, the books he read, the

hobbies he had when he was a child and a young

man, as well as why the great poet Velimir Khlebni-

kov and the famous artist Vera Khlebnikova grew

up in this particular family…

The ‘Khlebnikov Collection’ consists of the

following sections:

1. Household Items of the Khlebnikov and

Miturich Family;

2. Khlebnikov Family Library;

3. Family Documents;

4. Family Photographs;

5. Painting and Graphics of Vera Khlebnikova,

Petr Miturich and May Miturich.