He studied at the Higher wives. (Bestuzhev) courses in St. Petersburg. In 1910 he married D. V. Kuzmin - Karavaev, in 1911, came to the estate of the Kuzmin-Karavaeva in D. Boriskovo bezhetskogo., where studied painting, visited the estate Slepnevo, Podobina, Dubrovka (Sinevo-Dubrovo),met with the A. A. Akhmatova, N. S. Gumilev. Since 1919 in exile in 1932 became a nun under the name of Maria. During the 2nd world war, he participated in the Resistance Movement in France. Died in the ravensbrück concentration camp. Posthumously awarded the order of Patriotic. war of the 2nd century In the Museum Ms. Borkowski school (D. Suleski Borok Bezhetsky R-n) - exhibition of the life, K.-K., her life dedicated to the film "Four lives mother Mary"(1993), part episodes, which is filmed in Bezhetsky district.