Nadezhda Udaltsova

Non-fiction

Project 1917 is a series of events that took place a hundred years ago as described by those involved. It is composed only of diaries, letters, memoirs, newspapers and other documents

Nadezhda Udaltsova

82 apartment, 65, Smolenskiy blvd, Moscow, Russian Republic

11.12.17

While I will be working, I must finish everything and still pieces of 10 new drawings. Art is the only thing that is natural, everything remaining is demonic obsession. See more

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Nadezhda Udaltsova

82 apartment, 65, Smolenskiy blvd, Moscow, Russian Republic

21.11.17

What desolate and ghastly days these are. Neither side is in the right, and both sides are to blame for the bloodshed. So much deceit, so many tears, so much grief. What has become of decent, peaceable people? Whence this inhuman malice? – But no, not even malice: perversion. Ignorance? But when educated, cultured city-dwellers dehumanise themselves as well... Terrifying times indeed.

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Nadezhda Udaltsova

82 apartment, 65, Smolenskiy blvd, Moscow, Russian Republic

12.10.17

Anarchy reigns in Russia. Germans are taking what they want, soldiers are on a rampage, and there's no end to it.

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Nadezhda Udaltsova

82 apartment, 65, Smolenskiy blvd, Moscow, Russian Empire

17.06.17

I have grown horribly thin, but will soon get better. Moscow is a total dump, the yard cleaners are on strike and are preventing others from cleaning the streets. And, of course, it is those who are poorer who suffer. The bourgeoisie have taken their children to Crimea while those of others are playing in manure. This is not good. And the revolution is assuming a singularly economic character.

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Nadezhda Udaltsova

82 apartment, 65, Smolenskiy blvd, Moscow, Russian Empire

22.04.17

Organisation, talk talk and more talk. It’s the same with the Soviet of Artistic Organisations and the Educational Committee for the Soviet of Workers’ Deputies. Work here, there and everywhere. I haven’t written my article for the magazine and my pieces still aren’t ready, but I think it should all be finished by 8 June. It’s an anxious time, generally. For some reason, the workers of the world are failing to unite. England doesn’t want to end the war. God, when will we see an end to this inhumane war? Can it really be so difficult to say to all these people of different nations “enough”? After all, the Russian people have told the whole world “Enough!”

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Nadezhda Udaltsova

82 apartment, 65, Smolenskiy blvd, Moscow, Russian Empire

12.04.17

March has been vile and wretched. I have not been working, feeling wretched and everything has become muddled, somehow. There have been endless boring meetings of delegates. There was an argument with Mayakovsky, which was horrible and distasteful. I don’t know what he must think of me, but I gave him a piece of my mind.

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Nadezhda Udaltsova

82 apartment, 65, Smolenskiy blvd, Moscow, Russian Empire

10.03.17

I saw Rodchenko today. He’s just the person with whom I can work.

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Nadezhda Udaltsova

Moscow, Russian Empire

28.02.17

Tomorrow riots are expected. Lord, may this all be over as soon as possible.

My salvation, my only salvation, is art. I'm still an amateur, but I will become professional. If there’s a magazine [willing to take me on], I’ll work a great deal for it.

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Nadezhda Udaltsova

82 apartment, 65, Smolenskiy blvd, Moscow, Russian Empire

26.02.17

We ran with Malevich and filed a transfer request for Moscow, but I don’t think it’s going to happen. It’s impossible to do anything alone but there’s no one else. Exter was sick. There’s some kind of emptiness and solitude, and we’re senselessly beating on the walls, and there’s no one there or left.

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Nadezhda Udaltsova

82 apartment, 65, Smolenskiy blvd, Moscow, Russian Empire

10.02.17

What is it that binds wealth of spirit with poverty? After all, it’s not difficult to obtain a comfortable style of life, but by God is it dull.

I’ve got a large canvas ready, something will come of it, although I’m sick of anything which is not painting in its purest of forms. I’m happy only with pure colours and materials and the like. Well, something will come of it.

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Nadezhda Udaltsova

82 apartment, 65, Smolenskiy blvd, Moscow, Russian Empire

29.01.17

What’s the good of this endless anxiety? Even if I subsequently find fame and fortune, no glory or wealth could ever be worth the pain of these arduous years.

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Age: 31

Lives in: Moscow, Russian Empire

Occupation: artist

Friends

Alexandre Benois

Mikhail Larionov

Kazimir Malevich

Natalia Goncharova

Andrey Bely

Aleksei Kruchenykh

Olga Rozanova

Vladimir Mayakovsky

Nikolai Berdyaev

Alexander Rodchenko

Mikhail Matyushin