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Painter, teacher. Cousin of Peter Carl Fabergé. Born in Reval in Estonia (1830) in the family of Gottlieb Friedrich Wenig (music teacher, organist and violinist at St Nicholas’s Church in Reval) and ...
Painter. Father-in-law of Pyotr Konchalovsky, great-grandfather of film directors Andrei Konchalovsky and Nikita Mikhalkov. Born in Krasnoyarsk (1848) to a family of Don Cossacks, whose ancestors too...
Engraver, draughtsman, painter. Generally regarded as the first Russian artist to win fame abroad. Born in St Petersburg (1754) to scene painter Ivan Skorodumov (born c. 1721). Studied painting under ...
Painter, draughtsman, teacher. Born at Mödders in Estonia (1805). Illegitimate son of Heinrich Zoege von Manteuffel (uncle of Gerhard von Kügelgen and Carl von Kügelgen ) and Félicité Neff (French go...
Painter, teacher. Born in Novgorod to Taras Markov, a watchmaker and graduate of the Imperial Academy of Arts (1802). Studied under Alexei Yegorov, Vasily Shebuyev and Andrei Ivanov at the Imperial A...
Painter, teacher. Born in St Petersburg to Johann von Rabus, a German tutor at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1800). Studied under Mikhail Ivanov and Maxim Vorobyov at the Imperial Academy of Arts (18...
Painter, draughtsman, teacher. Father of Alexei Morgunov. Born to a haberdasher in Moscow and christened at the Church of St Nikita the Great Martyr on Shvivaya Hill (1830). Studied under Carl Wilhel...
Painter, graphic artist, writer. Born in a merchant’s family in Ufa (1862). Studied under Vasily Perov, Illarion Pryanishnikov, Pyotr Sorokin and Alexei Savrasov at the Moscow School of Painting, Scu...
Painter, graphic artist, set designer, illustrator. Descended from a Tatar prince called Bekhtei or Bakhtei (from the Turkic word bakht, meaning “luck” or “good fortune”) awarded lands in Novgorod (1...
Sculptor, teacher. Father-in-law of Alexei Yegorov. Studied under Nicolas-François Gillet and Louis Rolland at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1764–73). Fellow of the Imperial Academy of Arts in Rome (...