'You are not deaf-mute, are you?'. 1924

Name: Maxim Gorky (Alexei Maximovich Peshkov, 1868-1936)
Brand: 'You are not deaf-mute, are you?'. 1924
Price: 900.00 GBP
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Maxim Gorky (Alexei Maximovich Peshkov, 1868-1936)

'You are not deaf-mute, are you?'. 1924

Price Realised GBP 1,125

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Maxim Gorky (Alexei Maximovich Peshkov, 1868-1936)
'You are not deaf-mute, are you?'. 1924
Autograph letter signed ('A. Peshkov') to Solomon Gitmanovich [Kaplun], Villa il Sorito, Sorrento, 12 December 1924.

In Russian. One page, 277 x 213mm. Provenance: Hermitage auction, Monaco, 6 July 2019, lot 370.

'You are not deaf-mute, are you?': a furious letter, complaining of Kaplun's failure to write to him.

Sending you two more sonnets of Vyacheslav Ivanov; you have to place these according to the instructions of the author – these are included. Please send the proofs to V.I. [i.e. Ivanov], do not forget!

In conformity with your unpleasant habits, you are not replying to my letters, and having sent manuscripts to you I find myself constantly in a state of dismal unawareness, whether you have received them or not.

The very least you could do is to ask someone to put one word on a postcard and send it to me: one word: 'received' or two words: 'everything arrived'.

If Maria Ignatievna [Budberg] has not yet left for the border states, ask her not to forget about me.

How are things with the 6th and 7th issues [i.e. of Beseda]?

You are not deaf-mute, are you?
(Quotation from Mayakovsky).

The recipient, S.G. Kaplun (1891-1940) was a journalist and publisher, owner of the Berlin publishing house 'Epoch', and publisher of Gorky's literary and scientific journal Beseda from 1922 to 1925. Maria Ignatievna ('Moura') Budberg (1892-1974) was Gorky's secretary and lover, and later became a notorious double-agent.

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