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Painter, draughtsman, engraver, teacher. Serf of the landowner O. N. Kuminova in Tver Province. Worked as an apprentice of Nikifor Krylov at the Convent of St Nicholas at Terebeni in Tver Province (1...
Painter. Born in the town of Kalyazin in Tver Province (1802). Worked for an artel of travelling artists, who painted icons and frescoes in village churches (early 1820s). Worked at the Convent of St...
Painter, draughtsman. Serf of the landowner Nikolai Milyukov. Worked as a gardener at Nikolai Milyukov’s estate of Ostrovki and taught himself to draw. Studied under Alexei Venetsianov, who lived in ...
Painter, draughtsman, teacher. Born in Myrhorod to a Cossack icon-painter called Luka Borovyk (1757). Studied painting under his father and served in the same Cossack regiment as his father and broth...
Painter, draughtsman, engraver, illustrator, teacher. Founder of the Russian school of genre painting and the first artist to depict realistic scenes from the lives of the peasants. Descended from Gr...
Painter, graphic artist, theatrical designer, illustrator. Studied at grammar school and Ivan Kopylov’s school of art in Irkutsk (1901–13). Attended a studio of art in Paris (1913). Returned to Russi...
Painter, graphic artist, illustrator, art theorist, writer, teacher. Born in Warsaw in the family of a university lecturer called Vasily Sterligov (1904). Grew up in Moscow, where he attended grammar...
Painter, draughtsman, teacher. Brought up in Vyatka (now Kirov) by his stepfather after his father suffered a nervous breakdown. Studied at the Baron Stieglitz Central School of Technical Drawing (18...
Sculptor, teacher. Son of a Swedish estate manager in Estonia (1787). Studied under Ivan Martos at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1795–1808). Awarded a minor silver medal (1803), major silver medal (1...
Painter. Son of Feodosy Schedrin, nephew of Semyon Schedrin. Studied landscape painting under Fyodor Alexeyev, Mikhail Ivanov and Jean-François Thomas de Thomon at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1800–...