Nadia Khodossievich was born on 23 October 1904 in a village near Vilnius. Nadia spent her childhood in Zembino, Belarus. The young peasant girl is a passionate drawer. To fulfill this passion, she quickly realized that she could only express herself by emancipating herself from her native land.
At the age of 15, in Smolensk, she attended Wladyslaw Strzeminski’s classes. It was there that she met the person who would influence all her work, the founder of suprematism: Kasimir Malevitch.
From this period dates her first painting, “Presse-papiers”, a cubist work that testifies to a remarkable mastery of shapes and the harmony of colors.