An artist from this country painted a mustachioed man spinning a wheel to sharpen the title object to illustrate the “principle of glittering.” In another painting from this country, a disembodied hand points to the right above a coffee cup and the text “T. 402,” while wheels kick up billowing dust clouds. The painters of The Knife Grinder and Cyclist were part of radical groups in this country called Hylea and Donkey’s Tail, both inspired by its earlier Jack of Diamonds group. An artist from this country painted a square with thin borders offset at a slight angle against a white background in White on White, which is often contrasted with his work Black Square. For 10 points, what non-Italian country was home to many Suprematist and Cubo-Futurist painters, including Kazimir Malevich? ■END■
ANSWER: Russia [or Russian Empire or Rossiya or Rossiyskaya Imperiya; accept Soviet Union or USSR or SSSR or Soyuz Sovietskikh Sotsialichetskhikh Respublik; prompt on Ukraine by asking “what country was Ukraine a constituent part of at the time?”] (Cyclist is by Natalia Goncharova.)
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