Ksenia Boguslavskaya

Ksenia or Kseniya Boguslavskaya ( _ru. Ксения Богуславская, 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 (Liubov Popova, Nadezhda Udaltsova, Varvara Stepanova, Aleksandra Ekster, Ivan Kliun, Nina Genke-Meller, Ivan Puni 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 Soviets 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.