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Painter, teacher. Studied under Carl Wilhelm von Rabus and Alexei Savrasov at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (1851–58) and under Sokrat Vorobyov at the Imperial Academy of ...
Painter, draughtsman, caricaturist. Born in the town of Ufa in Orenburg Province (now Bashkortostan) in the family of a serf called Isaac Timashevsky (1822). Awarded his freedom from a landowner call...
Painter. Born in the town of Toropets in Pskov Province (now Tver Region) in the family of a prosperous merchant called Vasily Luchaninov (1781). Studied under Stepan Schukin and Alexander Warnek at ...
Painter. Studied under Grigory Ugryumov at the Imperial Academy of Arts. Awarded a minor silver medal (1801) and a second-class certificate (1802).
Painter. Son of a collegiate registrar called Luka Gorshenkov. Studied under Stepan Schukin at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1802–15). Awarded a minor silver medal (1811), major silver medal (1813) a...
Scottish photographer, painter. Born in Edinburgh to Scottish timber merchant Andrew Carrick and his wife Janet Lauder (1827). Moved with his parents to Kronstadt (1828) and St Petersburg (1844). Stu...
Painter. Son of Afanasy Ugryumov. Studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1795–1806). Awarded a minor silver medal (1803) and a minor gold medal (1806).
Painter, draughtsman, teacher. Studied painting under Fyodor Alexeyev at the theatrical school of the Imperial Theatres (until 1787). Taught drawing at the School of Mining (1787–1801). Nominated to ...
Lithographer, draughtsman, painter. Studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1855–61). Awarded a minor silver medal (1860) and the title of free artist of portrait painting (1861). Ran a lithographic...
Painter, graphic artist, illustrator, teacher. Born in the small town of Ruza to the west of Moscow in the family of an excise officer (1864). Studied under Pyotr Sinebatov (mid-1870s), under Vasily ...