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- Painter, Poet and Interior Decorator Ksenia Boguslavskaya, 1892
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Kseniya (or Ksenia) Boguslavskaya (Russian: Ксения Богуславская, January 24, 1892 – May 3, 1972) was a 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 Center 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. From 1919 to 1923 she lived in Berlin working as a scene designer for the cabaret Blue Bird and for the Russian Romantic Theater. After 1923 she lived in Paris.
