Soviet Futurism

Kazimir Malevich was a Russian avant-garde artist and art theorist. He was involved in multiple art movements that had a profound influence on the development of abstract art in the 20th century, including Russian Futurism.

Elena Guro was a Russian Futurist painter and writer. She published a book of her own writing in 1905, and contributed to (and subsidized the publication of) A Trap for Judges (1910). She was a member, along with her husband Mikhail Matyushin, of the Union of the Youth.

Pavel Filonov was a Russian avant-garde painter, art theorist, and poet. He co-illustrated Velimir Khlebnikov’s Selected Poems with Postscript, 1907–1914 along with Kazimir Malevich.

Nikolai Kulbin was a Russian Futurist artist, musician and theorist. He contributed to books alongside Aleksei Kruchenykh and Velimir Khlebnikov, such as Starinnaia liubov' (1914) and Bukh liesinnyi (1913).

The lifelong partner of Natalia Goncharova and co-founder of Rayonism, Mikhail Larionov was a founding member of the Jack of Diamonds (1909–1911), Moscow's first radical independent exhibiting group, as well as the more radical Donkey's Tail (1912–1913).