Guro Elena. Selected writings from the archives

Ed. Anna Ljunggren a. Nina Gourianova. — Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell intern., 1995. — 132 p. — ISBN 91-22-01688-0.The present volume of selected unpublished works by the writer and painter Elena Guro (1877-1913) represents the first effort to deal with her extensive manuscript materials, and is intended to continue and complement the earlier collection edited by Anna Ljunggren and Nils Ake Nilsson (Elena Guro: Selected Prose and Poetry, Stockholm, 1988). Printed here are literary works and essays from the manuscripts conserved at the Russian Archive of Literature and Art (RGALI), the Maiakovskii Museum and the manuscript division of the Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkinskii Dom), as well as supplementary materials in the form of memoirs, letters, and diaries which relate to Guro's personal and artistic biography. Archival materials have been selected with a view to introducing Guro as an artist through the prism of her critical and literary texts. Of special interest in this respect are her letters to her husband, the artist and musician Mikhail Matiushin, in which their remarks on their reading and general interests and on contemporary art can contribute insights into the process that led them both to break with the decorative aesthetics of Mir iskusstva and to participate in futurist collections.