Osip Brik

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

Osip Brik with Vladimir Mayakovsky

7, Malaya Ital'yanskaya street, Petrograd, Russian Republic

15.12.17

Here’s how Mayakovsky understood love: if you love me, it means you are mine, with me, for me, always and everywhere and under all circumstances. There can be no situation in which you are against me, however wrong, unjust or cruel I may be.

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Lilya Brik Vladimir Mayakovsky

Petrograd, Russian Republic

17.10.17

My dearest Volodenka,

We are planning to come to Moscow. I’m glad that you are well. I have hurt my knee, and haven’t danced in two weeks. Osya has got a full-time job (200 rubles) at Novaya Zhizn! It’s very warm here, but awfully windy… See more

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Vladimir Mayakovsky

Moscow, Russian Republic

08.10.17

Dear Lichika, dear Oska!

I kiss you right at the start of the letter, and not at the end, as is the norm: I am impatient! How are you? Happy people who have been to this fairy tale country, when asked ‘how are you’, are scoundrels who get away with the classic phrase “Lilya is Lilya”.

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