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Jeweller, silversmith. Hallmark: ?•?? in a trefoil. Born in the family of Grigory Serebryanikov (1718). Lived and worked in Moscow (from 1752), where he created a Rococo sugar bowl (1758) and silver ...
Jeweller, silversmith, niello master. Hallmark: ??. Born in the family of a jeweller called Ivan Torlov (1740). Lived and worked in Veliky Ustyug, where he created Rococo snuffboxes, caskets and teap...
German jeweller, goldsmith, silversmith. Hallmark: ZD in a rectangle. Born in the town of Olonets in Karelia (1709). Studied in Moscow (1720s), where he qualified as an apprentice. Admitted into the ...
Silversmith. Grandson of Smolensk silversmith Nikolai Fyodorov, son of Moscow silversmith Timofei Nikolaev Belyakovsky. Born in Meschanskaya Sloboda in Moscow (c. 1700). Worked at the Moscow Armoury ...
Jeweller, silversmith. Employed at Vasily Matveyev Kunkin’s workshop (1751–61) and the Silver Workshop in Moscow (1762–76). Created religious ornaments for the Solovetsky Monastery (1750s) and six si...
Swiss goldsmith, jeweller. Born in the family of Jacques Ador and Marie Vallotton in the municipality of Vuiteboeuf in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland (1742). Worked as a goldsmith in Geneva and Lo...
German medallist. Elder brother of Georg Christian Wächter. Born in the south German town of Heidelberg (1726). Worked as an engraver at the St Petersburg Mint (from 1741) and the Imperial Academy of...
German medallist. Younger brother of Johann Georg Wächter. Born in the south German town of Heidelberg (1729). Studied medal engraving under Jean Dassier in Geneva (1750s). Appointed court medallist ...
Painter, draughtsman, theatrical designer, teacher. Born in Smolensk (?) in the family of a subaltern officer called Mikhail Tonkov (c. 1740). Sent to St Petersburg with twenty-four other army childr...
Painter, draughtsman, teacher. Born in the town of Tver in the family of a stableman of Archbishop Arsenius III of Tver called Dementy Kamezhenkov (1757). Baptised in Tver (1760). Studied painting un...