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Ksenia Boguslavskaya




Ksenia or Kseniya Boguslavskaya ( 1892 - 1972 ) - Russian Avant-garde artist ( Futurist , Suprematist ) poet and interior decorator. Her husband Ivan Puni was also a notable painter. She seems to be the originator of the Mavva (symbol of the World Evil) in poems of Velemir Khlebnikov .

In 1914 together with Puni she published the Cubo-futurist booklet ''Roaring Parnas''.

In 1915 Boguslavskaya jointed the Supremus group of avant-garde artists ( Aleksandra Ekster , Nina Genke-Meller , Liubov Popova , Varvara Stepanova , Ivan Puni , Nadezhda Udaltsova and others) that was led by the founder of Suprematism Kazimir Malevich .

In 1915-1916 with other artists (Suprematists) she worked in the Verbovka Village Folk Centre in the Ukrainian province near Kiev.

She was a member of Jack Of Diamonds ( 1919 ) and Mir Iskusstva ( 1916 - 1918 ).

In 1919 she and Puni escaped from the Soviet s across the ice of the Gulf Of Finland .

In 1919 to 1923 she lived in Berlin working as a scene designer for cabaret ''Blue Bird'' and for ''Russian Romantic Theater''.

After 1923 she lived in Paris .