15 March] 1886 – 1917) was a Ukrainian[1][2][3] avant-garde artist (Neo-Primitivist and Cubo-Futurist) and book illustrator from the Russian empire.

Together with the members of the group The Link (Zveno) Wladimir and David Burliuk organized an avant-garde exhibition in Kiev.

In 1910 he became the member of the group Jack of Diamonds together with David Burliuk, Ekster, Malevich (later also Nathan Altman and Wladimir Tatlin).

In the same year he became the member of the group of avant-garde artists known as the Soyuz Molodyozhi (Union of the Youth).

[6] He was drafted into the Imperial army in 1916 and was killed the following year while fighting on the Macedonian front of World War I.