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Biographies

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  • Kenneth MacInnes

    Kenneth was born in the town of Paisley in Scotland in 1970 and started learning Russian at his local secondary school in 1987. He read Economics and Russian at Strathclyde University in Glasgow betw...

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  • Nadia Anjuman

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  • Jacob Jugashvili

    Georgian painter, graphic artist. Great-grandson of Joseph Stalin and his first wife Kato Svanidze (1885–1907). Grandson of Yakov Dzhugashvili (1907–1943) and Olga Golysheva (1909–1957). Son of Sovie...

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  • Harriet von Rathlef-Keilmann

    Latvian painter, graphic artist, sculptress, illustrator, writer. Descended from Rabbi Abram Awerbuck of Courland, who took the surname of Keyleman in memory of his late wife Keyla (early 18th centur...

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  • Mikhail Blokh (Moisei Bloch)

    Polish Jewish sculptor, teacher. Born in the family of Phoebus Bloch in Warsaw (1885). Studied at the Odessa School of Art (first half of 1900s) and under Vladimir Beklemishev at the Imperial Academy...

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  • Stefan Erzia

    Erzyan sculptor. Born as Stepan Nefyodov in the family of an Erzyan peasant called Dmitry Nefyodov in the village of Bayevo in Simbirsk Province (1876). Adopted the name of his ethnic group as a pseu...

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  • Leon Wyczółkowski

    Polish painter, draughtsman, engraver, teacher. Born in the family of glass merchant Mateusz Wyczółkowski and Antonina Falińska in the village of Huta Miastkowska near Garwolin in the kingdom of Pola...

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  • Maryna Mniszech

    In 1584, Ivan the Terrible died and was succeeded by his elder son, Tsar Feodor I. The new tsar exiled his younger half-brother, Tsarevich Dmitry, to the small town of Uglich, where he died in myster...

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  • Nikolai Lomtev

    Painter, graphic artist. Born in the family of merchant called Pyotr Lomtev in Rostov (1816). Studied under Fidelio Bruni at the Imperial Academy of Arts (from 1837, occasional student). Went to Ital...

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  • Yevdokia Glebova

    Yevdokia Glebova was a professional singer, voice coach and the younger sister of Pavel Filonov. She married Nikolai Glebov-Putilovsky (1919), a member of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (...

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