NATALIA SERGEEVNA GONCHAROVA (1881-1962)
Known painter, graphic artist, book illustrator, scene-designer. Together with M.F. Larionov she was one of pioneers of Russian advant-guard in the beginning of the XXth century. In early 1910s she participated in all the most known exhibitions of avant-guard art in Moscow. From 1915 she lived abroad, where designed a plenty of ballet and musical performances, among them the theatrical enterprise of S. Dyaghilev.