Peter Selg in June of 2013 that Swetlana Geier and Asya Turgeneva were acquainted and met occasionally both in Freiburg and in Dornach. Elsa Mahler and books from the library of the Altenheim Dornstadt (not far from Ulm). My major question was how did the volumes that were originally in the Anthroposophical community in Dornach, or Dornstadt,or Basel travel to Freiburg and then to the United States?Īt this point I can identify four distinct sets of materials: books belonging to or by Andrei Bely books from Asya and Dornach books of Prof.
I am grateful to the more than one dozen individuals who have been gracious with their time and expertise. Since the fall of 2011 I have been trying to ascertain the provenance or heritage of the books. The so-called Belyj-Reisebibliothek (traveling library) purportedly contained books in the hands of Asya Turgeneva-Bugaeva (Andrei Bely-Boris Bugaev’s first wife), who remained in Dornach, Switzerland at the Anthroposophical colony of Rudolf Steiner after Bely had returned to Russia in 1916 until her death in 1966. In late August 2011 I was given two cartons of books that were part of the collection given to me by Michaela Götte, Swetlana Geier’s daughter, and Sonja, her granddaughter. A fuller description of the process leading to those determinations can be obtained by reading further. Several were returned to the University of Basel, three made their way to the Andrej Belyj Apartment-Museum in Moscow, and one is intended for the Russian State Literary Archives in Moscow. The largest sets are in Middlebury or the Goetheanum in Dornach, Switzerland. As of June 2014 all the items in the collection have been return to appropriate homes.
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