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This newspaper clipping from the Piccolo of Trieste reports with enthusiasm on a series of lectures that the Futurist Filippo Tommaso Marinetti gave in Moscow and Saint Petersburg in 1914. There were similarities and points of attraction between the Italian and Russian Futurists, but the two movements quickly diverged. Russian Futurism was both more flexible and more rooted in tradition than its Italian counterpart. The clipping is from a collection of Futurist documents held by the University Library of Padua. Futurism was a short-lived artistic movement, founded in 1909 by ...