Imagining the Unimaginable: World War, Modern Art, and the Politics of Public Culture in Russia, 1914-1917

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Appendix Graph 1. Number of art groups in Russia, 1863–1932 Source:CompiledfrominformationinD.Ia.SeveriukhinandO.L.Leikind,Zolotoivek:Khudozhestvennykhob”edinenii v Rossii i sssr (1820–1932) (St. Petersburg: Izdatel’stvo Chernysheva, 1992). All figures are approximate; “provinces ” includes all places outside Petersburg and Moscow. Graph 2. Number of art groups in Russia, 1900–1924 Source:CompiledfrominformationinD.Ia.SeveriukhinandO.L.Leikind,Zolotoivek:Khudozhestvennykhob”edinenii v Rossii i sssr (1820–1932) (St. Petersburg: Izdatel’stvo Chernysheva, 1992). All figures are approximate; “provinces ” includes all places outside Petersburg and Moscow. 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 1863 1867 1871 1875 1879 1883 1887 1891 1895 1899 1903 1907 1911 1915 1919 1923 1827 1931 Provinces Petersburg and Moscow 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 1900 Provinces Petersburg and Moscow 1902 1904 1906 1908 1910 1912 1914 1916 1918 1920 1922 1924 Graph 3. Visitors to annual Union of Russian Artists exhibitions, 1905–1923 Source: V. P. Lapshin, Soiuz russkikh khudozhnikov (Leningrad: Khudozhnik rsfsr, 1974), 215–47. Table 1. Regular annual exhibition sales, Petersburg/Petrograd, 1911–1918 Note: Data are approximate; variations may stem from unspecified inclusion of ancillary exhibitions, pre-event sales, or inaccurate reporting. 1. Apollon, March 1913, 44; Khudozhestvenno-pedagogicheskii zhurnal 13, no. 1 (1914): 12; Rech’, April 3, 1915, 5, March 29, 1916, 5, March 31, 1917, 5. 2. Rech’, April 3, 1912, 4, April 6, 1915, 3, April 5, 1916, 5; Apollon, October–December 1917, 88. 3. Includes one painting by Repin which sold for 15,000 rubles. Rech’, April 9, 1913, 4. 4.IncludesonepaintingbyRepinwhichsoldfor16,000rublesandonepaintingbyBogdanov-Bel’skiiwhich sold for 5,000 rubles. Khudozhestvenno-pedagogicheskii zhurnal 13, no. 8 (1914): 123. 5. Approximate total from the first few weeks. Rech’, February 21, 1917, 5. 6.FiguresarefromRossiiskiiGosudarstvennyiArkhivLiteraturyiIskusstva,f.2066,op.1,ed.khr.169,170. Newspaperreportsthatdifferfromthearchivalsourcearegiveninparentheses.SeeRech’,April3,1912,4;Apollon , April 1913, 44; Rech’, March 30, 1915, 3, March 29, 1916, 5. 7.Rech’,March23,1912,4,April9,1913,4;Khudozhestvenno-pedagogicheskiizhurnal13,no.7(1914):108;Rech’, March 31, 1915, 5; Iskusstvo i zhizn’ 14, no. 5 (1915): 137; Apollon, April–May 1915, 90; Vechernee vremia, April 4, 1916, 4. 8. Natalia Goncharova. Apollon, May 1914, 44. In thousands of rubles, rounded to the nearest thousand. World of Art1 Itinerants2 Union of Russian Artists6 Spring Salon7 Avant-garde 1911–12 27 22 34 1912–13 25 423 28 (26) 24 1914–15 20 38 25 (23) 48 1913–14 10 494 46 35 28 1915–16 35 40 28 70 1916–17 100 1005 50 1917–18 135 190 | Appendix 25000 20000 15000 10000 5000 0 1903 Moscow Petersburg 1905 1907 1909 1911 1913 1915 1917 1919 1921 1923 Table 2. Visitors at regular annual exhibitions, Petersburg/ Petrograd, 1911–1918 Note: Data are approximate; variations may stem from unspecified inclusion of ancillary exhibitions, pre-event sales, or inaccurate reporting. Unless otherwise noted, sources are the same as those found in table 1. 1. First two weeks. Apollon, October–December 1917, 87. In thousands, rounded to the nearest thousand. World of Art Itinerants Union of Russian Artists Spring Salon 1911–12 17 7 (12) 20 1912–13 16 10 (13) 15 1914–15 10 13 7 21 1913–14 14 17 10 (12) 19 1915–16 12 16 7 (11) 1916–17 9 3 1917–18 61 Appendix | 191 Table 3. Regular annual exhibition sales, Moscow, 1911–1918 Note: Data are approximate; variations may stem from unspecified inclusion of ancillary exhibitions, pre-event sales, or inaccurate reporting. 1. Khudozhestvenno-pedagogicheskii zhurnal 13, no. 4 (1914): 60; Russkie vedomosti, January 31, 1916, 5; Ranee utro, February 3, 1917, 2. 2. Rech’, April 3, 1912, 4, April 9, 1913, 4; Khudozhestvenno-pedagogicheskii zhurnal 13, no. 4 (1914): 60; Rech’, January 30, 1915, 5, February 5, 1916, 5; Ranee utro, January 11, 1916, 2, January 11, 1917, n.p. 3.FiguresarefromRossiiskiiGosudarstvennyiArkhivLiteraturyiIskusstva,f.2066,op.1,ed.khr.169–70. Newspaperreportsthatdifferfromthearchivalsourcearegiveninparentheses.SeeRech’,April3,1912,4,April 9, 1913, 4; Khudozhestvenno-pedagogicheskii zhurnal 13, no. 4 (1914): 60; Iskusstvo i zhizn’ 14, no. 2 (1915); Russkie vedomosti , January 8, 1916, 5; Ranee utro, January 11, 1916, 2; Rech’, March 29, 1916, 5; Russkie vedomosti, January 9, 1917, 5; Ranee utro, January 9, 1917, 2; Utro Rossii, January 10, 1917, 4. 4. “1915” exhibition. Ranee utro, April 27, 1915, 2. 5.JackofDiamonds.V.P.Lapshin,Khudozhestvennaiazhizn’MoskvyiPetrogradav1917godu(Moscow:Sovetskii khudozhnik, 1983), 60. In thousands of rubles, rounded...