ZDANEVICH, Il’ia Mikhailovich (1894-1975). A printed handbill for a lecture at the Stray Dogs Theatre in St Petersburg on 9 April 1914 entitled ‘The Painted Face (A Talk on Gaurizankara)’, one page on blue paper 220 mm x 145 mm). [Together with:] – A printed handbill for an Evening of Transrational Poetry at the Syndicate of Futurists, Tiflis Branch, on Friday 19 January 1918 (altered in manuscript from Saturday 20), with Il’ia Zdanevich’s lecture on Transrational Poetry and Poetry in General, S.G. Mel’nikova readings from the works of D. Burliuk, V. Gnedov, E. Guro, I. Zdanevich, A. Kruchenykh, V. Khlebnikov and others, after an introduction by Sandro Kancheli, one page on grey paper (292 mm x 178 mm). Provenance: Nina Vasil'eva (1889-1979, poet).

ZDANEVICH, Il’ia Mikhailovich (1894-1975). A printed handbill for a lecture at the Stray Dogs Theatre in St Petersburg on 9 April 1914 entitled ‘The Painted Face (A Talk on Gaurizankara)’, one page on blue paper 220 mm x 145 mm). [Together with:] – A printed handbill for an Evening of Transrational Poetry at the Syndicate of Futurists, Tiflis Branch, on Friday 19 January 1918 (altered in manuscript from Saturday 20), with Il’ia Zdanevich’s lecture on Transrational Poetry and Poetry in General, S.G. Mel’nikova readings from the works of D. Burliuk, V. Gnedov, E. Guro, I. Zdanevich, A. Kruchenykh, V. Khlebnikov and others, after an introduction by Sandro Kancheli, one page on grey paper (292 mm x 178 mm). Provenance: Nina Vasil'eva (1889-1979, poet).

THE BIRTH OF THE FUTURIST UNION. It is during the 'First Evening of Transrational Poetry' announced in this handbill that the 'Sindikat futuristov' is formed with Kruchenykh, the Zdanevich brothers, Gudiashvili, Kara-Darvish and Cherniavskii. 41°, Modernism Inc, p.12.