Aleksey Morgunov

[1] His initial studies began at the Stroganov Moscow State Academy of Arts and Industry in 1899, but he also took private lessons from Konstantin Korovin and Sergey Ivanov.

He also associated with a group of radical artists led by Mikhail Larionov and participated in his ground-breaking exhibition called the "Jack of Diamonds".

Together with Ivan Kliun, they created their own short-lived movement called "Fevrialism" (Februaryism), following a rather impolite debate at the Polytechnic Museum, in February.

After the 1917 October Revolution by 1918, he was a member of the College of Fine Arts; a division of the People's Commissariat for Education (Narkompros).

[3] For some of those years, he also served as a teacher at his alma mater, the Stroganov Academy (then known as the "First Free State Art Workshops") and participated in "Proletkult".