The art of Alexander Bogomazov contains reflections of all the tendencies of avant-garde painting of the 1910s—from primitivism to abstraction. A participant in and organizer of two exhibitions of “new” art in Kiev (Zveno [Link], 1908; Koltso [Ring], 1914), he also actively collaborated with artists in Moscow and St. Petersburg. This helped him quickly free himself of the traces of art nouveau: while he was praised in early 1913 by a critic for Apollon for the absence of “too sharp dissonant notes” in the exhibition in which he was then taking part, by the spring of 1914 the Koltso exhibition, in which he showed more than eighty pieces, was described as notable “for its interest in fashionable tendencies, right up to Futurism and Rayonism.”