Editing Pavel Tchelitchew (section)

== Early life ==
Tchelitchew was born to an aristocratic family of landowners and was educated by private tutors.<ref name="KSL">{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Pavel Tchelitchew|url=http://www.kinseyinstitute.org/services/gallery/russia/tchelitchew.php|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120824192633/http://www.kinseyinstitute.org/services/gallery/russia/tchelitchew.php|archive-date=2012-08-24|access-date=2020-11-11|website=[[The Kinsey Institute]]}}</ref> Tchelitchew expressed an early interest in ballet and art.<ref name="KSL"/> His family was forced to flee Russia after the [[Russian Revolution]] in 1917.<ref name="Routledge">David A. Gerstner, ed. ''Routledge International Encyclopedia of Queer Culture.'' (London: Routledge, 2006). p. 553.</ref> He studied under [[Aleksandra Ekster]] at the [[Kiev Academy]], and after graduation worked designing and building theater sets in [[Odessa]] and later Berlin from 1920 to 1923.<ref name="artnet">{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Pavel Tchelitchew|url=http://www.artnet.com/artists/pavel-tchelitchew/|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-11-11|website=[[Artnet]]}}</ref>