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Book “The Hurdy-Gurdy”

Creation period
1909
Place of сreation
Saint Petersburg, the Russian Empire
Dimensions
18,5x13,5 cm
Technique
paper, cardboard, fabric
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“The Hurdy-Gurdy” was the first book of Elena Genrikhovna Guro (1877–1913), which she published together with her husband Mikhail Vasilyevich Matyushin. They used their own funds to print it in 1909. This book prompted the couple to organize the amateur publishing house “Zhuravl”, which would subsequently prepare most of the publications by Russian Futurists.

“The Hurdy-Gurdy” was illustrated by Elena Guro herself. She also included three illustrations made by her longtime friend — the artist Nadezhda Ivanovna Lyubavina. The book is predominantly designed in the Art Nouveau style.

Even a year after its publication, the book did not sell enough copies. Elena Guro started sending free copies of “The Hurdy-Gurdy” to prison libraries, as evidenced by the entries in her diary. After Guro’s death in May 1913, the remaining books were distributed as a second edition.

Guro wrote,

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I am ashamed to send ‘The Hurdy-Gurdy’ to you. It is the first stage of my journey, which, though sincere, still feels constricted because of a search for technique and form, and, perhaps, I have searched in the wrong places. Dissatisfaction with this form has prompted me to deny form altogether, but here I suffer from shortcomings of this approach, from a lack of that concise ‘implication’ which makes one try to interpret a book and ask it for a new half-existing possibility. That is what is so wonderful about new challenges. Take you, for example — in the gaps between your writings, the essence that has no name in any human language, the essence to which your new words correspond, is ready to reveal itself. To reveal what feelings it evokes, without immediately imposing a narrow meaning to them — is it not so?

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The only review of the book was written by the poetess Varvara Grigoriyevna Malakhieva-Mirovich right after the book was published, where she said,

#7

This book cannot be described as ‘it is’, more like ‘it is im Werden’” (German for “becoming”), “…it is as if a teenage girl has appeared on the stage for the first time — a talented girl… With pointed elbows and red hands, choking with laughter; she will adjust her stocking without even noticing. She cannot walk around the stage. Suddenly for no apparent reason she begins speaking in a man’s voice and crosses her legs (which she adopted from her cousin)”, and “it is a very sweet book.

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Book “The Hurdy-Gurdy”

Creation period
1909
Place of сreation
Saint Petersburg, the Russian Empire
Dimensions
18,5x13,5 cm
Technique
paper, cardboard, fabric
1
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