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  • Grigory Myasoyedov

    Painter, theatrical designer. Studied under Timoleon Carl von Neff and Alexei Markov at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1853–62). Foreign fellow of the Imperial Academy of Arts (1863–69). Lived in Flor...

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  • Nikolai Ge

    Painter, draughtsman. Great-grandson of a French émigré, who fled to Moscow after the French Revolution. Studied at grammar school in Kiev (1841–47) and at the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of K...

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  • Leonid Solomatkin

    Painter. Orphaned soon after he was born to a family of poor peasants (1837). Worked as a shepherd boy and a homeless carter. Travelled across Russia, selling icons and making sketches of street acro...

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  • Vladimir Perov

    Painter. Son of Vasily Perov from his first marriage to Elena von Scheinitz. Studied under his father at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture and possibly took lessons from Ilya ...

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  • Vasily Perov

    Painter, draughtsman, teacher. Illegitimate son of the provincial procurator Baron Grigory von Krüdener. Given the surname Perov from the Russian word for quill ( pero ) on account of his beautiful h...

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  • Ivan Shishkin

    Painter, draughtsman, engraver. Studied at the First Grammar School for Boys in Kazan (1844–48), but dropped out to try and become an artist (1848–52). Studied under Carl Wilhelm von Rabus and Apollo...

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  • Ivan Kramskoi

    Painter, draughtsman, engraver, art critic. Worked for a travelling photographer as a retoucher (1853–57). Studied under Alexei Markov at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1857–63) and initiated the “rev...

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  • Ilya Repin

    Painter, draughtsman, engraver, illustrator, teacher, writer. Studied at the Chuhuiv School of Military Topography (1854–57) and under Ivan Bunakov in Chuhuiv (1857). Painted icons and frescoes for l...

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  • Yury Repin

    Painter. Son of Ilya Repin. Studied at the Princess Maria Tenisheva School of Art in St Petersburg (1894–99) and under Dmitry Kardovsky and Ilya Repin at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1899–1905). Mem...

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  • Mikhail Vrubel

    Painter, graphic artist, theatrical designer, sculptor, applied artist, illustrator, writer. Studied at the School of Drawing of the Society for the Encouragement of the Arts (1864–69), Faculty of La...

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