Vladimir Yevgrafovich Tatlin (Владимир Евграфович Татлин) ( – May 31, 1953) worked as a painter and architect. With Kazimir Malevich he was one of the two most important figures in the Russian avant-garde art movement of the 1920s, and he later became the most important artist in the Constructivist movement. He is most famous for his attempts to create the giant tower, The Monument to the Third International.