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Mikhail Larionov, born in Tiraspol in 1881, attended the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture from 1898 to 1910. He became friends with Konstantin Korovin, who later became a professor at the school in 1902. Read the full biography

Mikhail Larionov, born in Tiraspol in 1881, attended the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture from 1898 to 1910. He became friends with Konstantin Korovin, who later became a professor at the school in 1902. In 1903, he met Serge Diaghilev on the occasion of an exhibition of the work of Charles Rennie MacKintosh and from then on, Larionov produced costume and set designs for Diaghilev's theater productions. Larionov and Goncharova worked together, inspiring each other but still maintaining independent artistic paths. Starting from 1908, Larionov participated in numerous exhibitions, including the International Exhibition of Venice in 1907 and the Blaue Reiter exhibition in Munich in 1912. In 1913, inspired by Futurism, Larionov and Goncharova developed Rayonism, considered the first original Russian school of non-objective painting. Larionov, during the war, was drafted into the army. He published many of his writings and illustrated numerous works. Larionov died in Paris in 1964, just two years after Goncharova.