. Russian portraits . old the debacle that has since been he was not listened to, perhaps because ofhis Tsarist tradition. Probably his opinion ismore respected now. Trotsky asked me if Iwould like to do Tchicherin, and I explainedthat never before had I worked under suchdifficult conditions, and that although I hadmade efforts for Lenin and himself I did notfeel like doing it again for anyone else. He wasquite indignant and said : What difficulty haveyou had in working here ? True it was aperfectly good room and excellent light, butTchicherin would not move out of his Com-missar
. Russian portraits . old the debacle that has since been he was not listened to, perhaps because ofhis Tsarist tradition. Probably his opinion ismore respected now. Trotsky asked me if Iwould like to do Tchicherin, and I explainedthat never before had I worked under suchdifficult conditions, and that although I hadmade efforts for Lenin and himself I did notfeel like doing it again for anyone else. He wasquite indignant and said : What difficulty haveyou had in working here ? True it was aperfectly good room and excellent light, butTchicherin would not move out of his Com-missariat and that would mean new conditionsto adapt oneself to, nor does anyone under-stand the difficulties of moving the finishedwork back to the Kremlin. Trotsky swept myexcuses aside : Of course you must doTchicherin—it is almost a diplomatic obliga-tion on his part to be done. It was a quarter to midnight when I preparedto stop work and looked desperately at the clock : What about this order—how am I to be home142.
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