BLACK SQUARE AND WHITE TABLE: "CHINARI", "RADIX" AND KAZIMIR MALEVICH

The essay reco nstructs the history of relations of the Leningrad poets, that belonged to the avant-garde collectives "Left Flank" and " Radix" with Kazimir Malevich and his students in 1926 - early 1927. The authors draw attention to the unstoppable organizational activities of Daniil Kharms in consolidating the avant-garde forces and uniting friends and collaborators into creative groups against the background of the Leningrad Institute of Artistic Culture (GINKhUK) and the Institute of Art History (GIII).