She studied painting at Kiev Art School in the early 1900s. Her painting studio became a gathering hub for the intellectual elite of Kiev; she hosted such notables as Anna Akhmatova, Osip Mandelstam, and Wladimir Baranoff-Rossine.
She studied painting at Kiev Art School in the early 1900s. Her painting studio became a gathering hub for the intellectual elite of Kiev; she hosted such notables as Anna Akhmatova, Osip Mandelstam, and Wladimir Baranoff-Rossine.