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Sculptor, ceramicist. Real name: Seraphim Golovastikov. Worked in a telegraph office and took part in amateur theatrical productions. Joined the Nizhny Novgorod Theatre (1881–91), where he adopted th...
Painter, graphic artist. Worked in commerce and served on the Brest Railway Line (early 1890s). Took up drawing and unsuccessfully attempted to enrol at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and A...
Painter, graphic artist, theatrical designer, engraver, illustrator, decorative and applied artist, writer. Born Moishe Shagal to a poor Hassidic family in Vitebsk (1887). Worked as a photographer’s ...
Painter, graphic artist, theatrical designer, teacher. Graduated from the St Peter and St Paul Professional School in Moscow (1903). Studied at the Konstantin Juon and Ivan Dudin School of Painting a...
Painter, graphic artist. Studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (early 1900s) and under Konstantin Korovin and Valentin Serov (from 1901). Contributed to exhibitions (fr...
Painter. Studied drawing under Chaïm Krüger in Minsk (1909). Worked as a photographer’s assistant in Vilna, attended the Vilna Academy of Arts (1910–13), where he met Michel Kikoine and Pinchus Krémè...
Painter, graphic artist, theatrical designer, illustrator. Born in St Petersburg in the family of a police superintendent called Yury Sudeikin (1882). Studied under Abram Arkhipov, Nikolai Kasatkin, ...
Graphic artist, painter, applied artist. illustrator. Sister of the artist Vasily Polenov. Studied under Ivan Kramskoi (from 1864), at Charles Chaplin’s studio in Paris (1869–70), Pavel Chistyakov’s ...
Painter, graphic artist, theatrical designer, illustrator. Son of Andrei Somov, brother of Anna Somova-Mikhailova. Studied under Vasily Vereschagin and Pavel Chistyakov at the Imperial Academy of Art...
Decorative and applied artist, singer. Daughter of Andrei Somov, sister of Konstantin Somov. Born in St Petersburg (1873). Studied painting and graphic art at home under the guidance of her brother. ...