Editing Kazimir Malevich (section)

==Early life (1879-1904)==
[[Image:Kazimir Malevich, c.1900.jpg|thumb|Kazimir Malevich (c.1900)]]
Kazimir Malevich<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.moscovery.com/kazimir-malevich/|title=Kazimir Malevich – one of the famous Russian Painters. Biography and interesting facts|date=16 September 2017|access-date=13 June 2018|archive-date=13 June 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180613161225/https://www.moscovery.com/kazimir-malevich/|url-status=dead}}</ref> was born in 1879 Kazimierz Malewicz to a [[Poles in Russia|Polish]] family,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://en.uartlib.org/kazimir-malevich-ukraine/|title=Kazimir Malevich and Ukraine – Ukrainian Art Library|date=24 January 2015|website=Ukrainian Art Library|language=en-US|access-date=1 July 2016|archive-date=5 April 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230405055601/http://en.uartlib.org/kazimir-malevich-ukraine/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="A.T.">{{cite book |author=Andrzej Turowski |url=http://www.antykwariat.waw.pl/ksiazka,1005680/andrzej_turowski_malewicz_w_warszawie_rekonstrukcje_i_symulacje,203919.html |title=Malewicz w Warszawie: Rekonstrukcje i Symulacje |trans-title=Malevich in Warsaw: Reconstructions and Simulations |publisher=Krakow: Universitas |year=2002 |isbn=8370524869 |quote=Foreword. |access-date=4 April 2014 |archive-date=3 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303214103/http://www.antykwariat.waw.pl/ksiazka,1005680/andrzej_turowski_malewicz_w_warszawie_rekonstrukcje_i_symulacje,203919.html |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="ND">N.D. (26 July 2013), [http://www.dziennik.com/publicystyka/artykul/walcza-o-polskosc-malewicza  Walczą o polskość Malewicza (Advocating the Polishness of Malewicz)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130729214514/http://www.dziennik.com/publicystyka/artykul/walcza-o-polskosc-malewicza |date=29 July 2013 }} ''Nowy Dziennik''.</ref> who settled near Kiev in [[Kiev Governorate]] of the [[Russian Empire]] during the [[partitions of Poland]].<ref name="nytimes1" /> His parents, Ludwika and Seweryn Malewicz, were [[Roman Catholicism in Ukraine|Roman Catholic]] like most ethnic Poles,<ref name="Schwartz p. 84"/> though his father attended Orthodox services as well.{{Sfn|Shkandrij|2019|p=106}} His native language was Polish, but he also spoke Russian,<ref>Shatskikh, Aleksandra Semenovna. 2013. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=0m1Ar8IXIC0C&pg=PT14 Black Square: Malevich and the Origin of Suprematism]''. New Haven, Conn: Yale University Press. p. 51. {{ISBN|9780300140897}}</ref> as well as Ukrainian due to his childhood surroundings.<ref name="Radio Svododa-2019">{{Citation |last=Radio Svododa |title=Malevich: Ukrainskyi kvadrat (dokumentalnyi film) |date=23 February 2019 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdL17kRCM4E |script-title=uk:Малевич. Український квадрат Документальний фільм |access-date=23 February 2019 |archive-date=25 April 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200425170331/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdL17kRCM4E&gl=US&hl=en |url-status=live }}</ref> His mother Ludwika wrote poetry in Polish and sang Polish songs, and kept a record of the Polish families living in the area.{{Sfn|Shkandrij|2019|p=106}} Malevich would later write a series of articles in Ukrainian about art, and identified as Ukrainian.<ref name="Myroslav Shkandrij">{{Cite web |title=Myroslav Shkandrij. Reinterpreting Malevich: Biography, Autobiography, Art // Canadian-American Slavic Studies, Vol. 36. No. 4 (Winter 2002). pp. 405–420. |url=http://shron.chtyvo.org.ua/Myroslav_Shkandrij/Reinterpreting_Malevich_Biography_Autobiography_Art_anhl.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161213101158/http://shron.chtyvo.org.ua/Myroslav_Shkandrij/Reinterpreting_Malevich_Biography_Autobiography_Art_anhl.pdf |archive-date=13 December 2016}}</ref>

Kazimir's father managed a sugar factory. Kazimir was the first of fourteen children,<ref name="nytimes1"/> only nine of whom survived into adulthood. His family moved often and he spent most of his childhood in the villages of modern-day Ukraine, amidst sugar-beet plantations, far from centers of culture. Until age twelve, he knew nothing of professional artists, although art had surrounded him in childhood. He delighted in peasant embroidery, and in decorated walls and stoves. He was able to paint in the peasant style. He studied drawing in Kiev from 1895 to 1896. From 1896 to 1904, Kazimir Malevich lived in [[Kursk]], where he encountered several Russian artists, including Lev Kvachevsky, with whom he often worked outdoors.<ref name=":0" />{{Rp|pages=5–6}}