Education
At the age of 15, while in a small Russian town of Belyov, where the family moved to during World War I, she started attending a studio run by Prof. T. Koturkin. It was there that she developed a dream to study painting in Paris. Her way toParis began from Smolensk, where at the Higher State Studios she attended classes by V. Strzeminski and K. Kobro, and later by K. Malevich, the founder of suprematism, who soon announced to his students the "end of painting" after The Black Square. However, N.Khodasevich was dreaming of further education.
In 1922 she moved to Warsaw. After the classes of most modernistic avant-garde, studies at Warsaw Academy of Arts seemed a conservative return to the past, however,she learned classical drawing and painting there. Her dream to study painting in Paris came true after her unhappy first marriage
For several years (1925–1932) she studied at the School of Contemporary Arts of Fernan Léger. He asked her to become his assistant. She had worked for the famous French painter for many years in that capacity, became his friend, and then, in 1952, his wife.