b. Ilia Mikhailovich Zdanevich).
One of the most radical of Russian Cubo-Futurists, lliazd grew up in Tiflis on the Caucasus, the son of a professor of French, and by 1911, while still a teenager, became an active proponent of Italian Futurism. While studying law in St. Petersburg, he became especially close to the painters Mikhail Larionov (1881–1964), Natalia Goncharova (1881–1962), and Mikhail Le-Dantiu (1891–1917) and wrote the first monograph on Larionov and Goncharova in 1913 under...