Kirill Zdanevich (1892-1969) - Georgian Soviet avant-garde artist, graphic artist, theater artist, one of the discoverers, collector and propagandist of Niko Pirosmani's art. The elder brother of the poet and artist Ilya Zdanevich (Ilyazd).
He studied at the courses of painting and drawing N.V. Sklifosovsky in Tiflis, then at the Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg. Member of the First World War. In 1917-1921 he lived in Georgia, Paris and Moscow. He was influenced by cubo-futurism, the founder of "orchestral painting" and "everything", a member of the "41 °" group. Member of the Moscow Association of Artists.