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  • Sokrat Vorobyov

    Painter, draughtsman. Adopted son of Maxim Vorobyov. Studied under his father at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1833–39). Awarded minor silver medals (1835, 1836), minor gold medal (1837) and major go...

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  • Maxim Vorobyov

    Painter, draughtsman, engraver. Father of Sokrat Vorobyov. Born in Pskov (1787) to an army corporal who was transferred to St Petersburg to work as a caretaker at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1798)....

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  • Hovhannes Aivazovsky

    Painter, graphic artist. Born in the Crimean port of Theodosia to a poor Armenian family (1817). His father, Kaitan Haivazian, was a ruined merchant who originally came from Galicia, where he took th...

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  • Georgy Savitsky

    Painter, graphic artist. Son of Konstantin Savitsky. Studied under Konstantin Savitsky at the Nikolai Seliverstov School of Art in Penza (1902–08) and under Vladimir Makovsky at the Imperial Academy ...

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  • Konstantin Savitsky

    Painter, draughtsman, engraver, illustrator. Father of Georgy Savitsky. After the sudden death of both parents, lived with an uncle in Daugavpils in Latvia (from 1854). Studied at the Imperial Academ...

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  • Abram Arkhipov

    Painter, teacher. Born Abram Pyrikov to a poor peasant family in the remote village of Yegorovo in Ryazan Province (1862). Studied under Vasily Perov, Alexei Savrasov, Vasily Polenov, Illarion Pryani...

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  • Pavel Fedotov

    Painter, draughtsman, poet. Born in the family of a poor civil servant in Moscow (1815). Studied at the First Moscow Military Academy (1826–33) and served in the Finland Life Guards Regiment in St Pe...

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  • Arkhip Kuinji

    Painter, teacher. Son of a Greek cobbler whose surname was derived from the profession of his Tatar father, who had been a goldsmith (Tatar: kuyumcu ). Orphaned at an early age (1845) and forced to e...

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  • Nikolai Kasatkin

    Painter, teacher. Studied under Vasily Perov and Illarion Pryanishnikov at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (1873–83). Member of the Society of Travelling Art Exhibitions (fr...

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  • Alexander Kiselyov

    Painter, graphic artist, teacher. Born at the Russian naval fortress of Sveaborg outside Helsinki (1838). Studied at the Count Arakcheyev Cadet School in Novgorod (from 1850), Second Cadet School in ...

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