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В конце XIX века европейское искусство обратило свой взгляд на восток и стало активно интересоваться эстетикой японской гравюры. Одним из первых, кто стал коллекционировать гравюры укиё-э в России, стал Сергей Китаев, военный моряк и художник-любитель. Ему удалось собрать крупнейшую в стране – а одно время считалось, что и в Европе – коллекцию японского искусства. Через несколько лет после Октябрьской революции 1917 года коллекция попала в Государственный музей изобразительных искусств имени А. С. Пушкина и никогда полностью не исследовалась и не выставлялась. Искусствовед Евгений Штейнер в своей книге рассказывает историю этого собрания, погружает читателя в историко-культурный контекст, необходимый для знакомства с гравюрами, а в качестве иллюстрации подробно комментирует избранные листы из коллекции Сергея Китаева. Евгений Штейнер – ученый-японист, доктор искусствоведения, профессор Школы востоковедения НИУ ВШЭ и ассоциированный исследователь Центра по изучению Японии Школы восточных и африканских исследований (School of Oriental and African Studies, SOAS) Лондонского университета. The book researches the life of the Russian collector of Japanese art Sergei Kitaev (1864–1927) and investigates the dramatic history of his collection of woodblock prints and paintings, which was once the largest in Russia and possibly one of the largest private collections of Japanese art in Europe. A few years after the October Revolution of 1917, the Kitaev Collection was nationalized and became part of the holdings of The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts (Moscow). It has never been fully researched, cataloged, or exhibited. The author worked on the catalog of prints from this collection and found that compared with archival data, what is now kept in the Pushkin Museum is significantly different in terms of the number of artifacts and their condition. The book is devoted to the investigation of this problem. The Chapter 4 is an updated version of the text and illustrations first published as “The Kitaev Collection of Japanese Art in the Pushkin Museum: Historia Calamitatum,” in Impressions, The Journal of the Japanese Art Society of America, No. 12 (2011) (www.japaneseartsoc.org). Copyright © Japanese Art Society of America
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large and 570 small; ink sketches – 1900[213]. Besides these, there was a group of thirteen hundred photographs of Japanese life (street scenes, festivals, customs and the like), thematically grouped in albums, and three hundred negatives[214]. There were hand-colored glass slides for a magic lantern taken, for the most part, from prints on historical and mythological subjects. There were hundreds of books and albums, and finally, thousands of prints. Kitaev writes:

These are the cities where I was buying: Tokyo, Kyoto, Yokohama, Osaka, Kobe, Shimonoseki, Nagazaki, Hakodate, Nikko, Nagoya, Tsuruga, Kagoshima. In villages: Otsu, Mianoshta [Miyanoshita at Hakone], Inasa, Atami. There were other places, but their names I do not remember. My agents (ojiji san – “old men”) canvassed the length and breadth of J[apan] for several years[215].

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Letter from Sergei Kitaev to Pavel Pavlinov

Aug. 20, 1916. Department of Manuscripts, Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow (stock 9, inventory II, document 608). Kitaev writes that he has all fifteen volumes of the rare first edition of Hokusai’s Manga. The 2008 Pushkin Catalogue excludes these lines in its transcription of the text and inserts a few words to smooth the gap. There are ten offending graffiti marks on this page, including, in the upper righthand corner “A Letter of S. N. Kitaev to the artist P. Ia. Pavlinov”, and the underlining of names of Japanese artists. Kitaev uses letterhead from the Chernovo Coal Mines of the Zamyatin Brothers Company.

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Sergei Kitaev

One page of the Brief List, a description of his Japanese print collection, from a draft of a letter to Vasily V. Gorshanov. 1916. Department of Manuscripts, Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow (stock 9, inventory I, document 22).Kitaev’s letter to Gorshanov was published in the 2008 Pushkin Catalogue (vol. 2, p. 549), but without its main component, the Brief List; the second line of Kitaev’s list mentions thousands of prints by Hokusai.

Kitaev made acquisitions in all ports from Nagasaki and Kagoshima in the south to Hakodate in the north. He did not miss Otsu, famous for its folk pictures, and “the Russian village” Inasa in Nagasaki Bay, where the Russian naval base was established in 1859. On the other hand, all evident advantages notwithstanding, there was a serious problem: in port towns (especially, Yokohama and Kobe) a significant part of the art market was targeted at foreigners, as discussed below.

Kitaev had every reason to call his collection “an encyclopedia of the arts of all Japan[216].” He was not just an amateur who was buying pictures he liked, without any system. Kitaev took care to represent Japan the country through its art. The bulk of his collection was formed in Japan before 1895, when he reached the age of thirty, although he continued to add items through his agents when he settled in Saint Petersburg. He also thought about the benefits to the public and future specialists. Nagata Seiji noted in his introduction to the catalogue of the collection’s 1994 exhibition in Japan: “The huge variety of the materials of this collection is its particular feature. From the scholarly viewpoint, Japanese art is represented in a very strong fashion and conveys the sensibility of the collector. Geographically, it contains everything from the prints of Edo to those of Kyoto, Osaka and Nagasaki. For a foreigner of those days it has a rarely seen breadth[217].”

Given his collecting interests that included even chromolithographs and those prints he called “copies” (facsimiles and recuts, or akashi-han), one may ask whether Kitaev was simply omnivorous, as often happens with many well-heeled dilettantes. Yes, by all means he was a dilettante in its original meaning of “delighted one.” Its negative connotation of superficial, half-baked amateur does not become him. Judging from his letters, Kitaev had considerable knowledge of books on Japanese art in European languages, and he hired Japanese linguists to translate texts related to Japanese artists into Russian for him; in the letter that contains the Brief List, Kitaev includes excerpts from thoughts about the essence of art by Kawanabe Kyо̄sai (1831–1889). He frequently communicated directly with artists and antique dealers in Japan, visited old temples to see famous works of art and regularly showed new acquisitions to his “three friends – Chiossone, Bigot, and Gibert” – who visited him on his ship in Yokohama. Edoardo Chiossone (1833–1898) and Georges Bigot (1860–1927) are well-known in the world of Japanese art and do not require any commentary here; the third, Gibert, was a secretary to the French legation. Kitaev was also acquainted with Okakura Kakuzо̄ (1862–1913), who visited him aboard ship to view the collection and later invited Kitaev to his Tokyo School of Fine Arts.

The names of ukiyo-e masters mentioned in Kitaev’s letters to Pavlinov demonstrate that he was well-oriented in who was who. He knew the established hierarchy of artists, but he had his own eye and taste.

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