[3] Her father was Genrikh Stepanovich Guro (or Gouraud), an officer in the Imperial Russian Army of French descent.

From 1903 to 1905 she studied in the private studio of Jan Ciągliński where she met her future husband Mikhail Matyushin (they were married in 1906).

[1] The year 1905 marked her literary debut with the publication of Early Spring (Rannjaja vesna).

[2] This was her first short story and was published in an anthology of contemporary Russian writers called Sbornik molodyx pisatelej.

[2] One year previously, in 1904, she illustrated the Russian translation of a book of fairy tales by the French writer George Sand.

[6] In 1906 she and Matyushin moved to the art school of Elizaveta Zvantseva, where Guro worked under Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, Léon Bakst and Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin.

[1][5] Guro is well-known for her fascination with the contrast between the urban world and nature, once writing in a short story about the psychology of people based in cities.

[1][5] Guro's work is characterised by the syncretism of painting, poetry and prose, an impressionistic perception of life, the poetics of the laconic lyrical fragment.

A large number of studies in Russia and abroad have been dedicated to Guro's creative work.