Kseniya Boguslavskaya

Kseniya (or Ksenia or Xenia) Boguslavskaya (also Xana Puni; Russian: Ксения Богуславская, born 5 February [O.S.

[1][2] Her father Leonid Ivanovich Bogoslovsky (01.01.1854 — 22.07.1902) was Lieutenant colonel of the Russian Army and served in 1898-1902 in Guangdong, China, where he died of dysentery.

Her mother, Vera Fedorovna Bogoslovskaya (born Alabugina, daughter of lieutenant; 26.04.1858 - 16.08.1921), who followed him, went after her husband's death with Xana and her elder brother to Saint Petersburg and lived from the military pension.

Soon Ivan left for Russia, and Xana attended Parisian public schools (l'Académie russe and Académie de la Grande Chaumière) until May 1913.

They lived in Berlin from 1920 to 1923, she worked as a scene designer for the Russian-German cabaret called Der Blaue Vogel and for the Russian Romantic Theatre.

In Berlin, they established ties with the International Futurists, including poet Ruggero Vasari and Kārlis Zāle.