Regarding Kazimir Malevich - the ethnically his family of Ukrainian origin. Pedigree known since middle. 17., They lived in Ovruch county Kiev province. I think that in Ukrainian, he was able to speak. Like other small gentry, the church to go - there are Polish, but at home or with relatives, neighbors, and can be translated into simpler
. Princes Radziwill in Belarusian talk, but the petty Ukrainian gentry ... Here I thought K. Malevich himself a Ukrainian, we can not say we can, but call it a Ukrainian artist, in my view, quite correct.