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Sculptor, teacher. Born in the family of a serf called Ivan Smirnov in the village of Bolshoe Stolobetskoe in Oryol Province (1793). Became known as “Orlovsky” after the family moved from Oryol Provi...
Polish sculptor, painter, teacher. Grandson of Polish poet Cyprian Godebski (1765–1809), son of Polish writer Franciszek Ksawery Godebski (1801–1869). Born in Méry-sur-Cher in central France (1835) a...
Painter, draughtsman. Born on the Nezhinskaya estate in the village of Nezhnovo halfway between St Petersburg and Narva (1782). Illegitimate son of landowner Alexei Dyakonov and a serf woman called A...
Painter, copyist. Son of Theodosios Janenko. Studied under Stepan Schukin and Alexander Warnek at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1809–21), where he became a close friend of Karl Brullov. Awarded a min...
Painter. Father of Jacob Janenko. Signed his early works in Greek and possibly came to St Petersburg with Eugenios Voulgaris from Greece or Bulgaria (1771). Studied under Gavriil Kozlov at the Imperi...
Sculptor, restorer. Grandson of wooden sculptor Ivan Terebenyov, son of Ivan Terebenyov, nephew of Mikhail Terebenyov. Studied under Vasily Demut-Malinovsky at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1824–36)....
Painter, miniaturist, restorer, teacher. Son of wooden sculptor Ivan Terebenyov, brother of Ivan Terebenyov, uncle of Alexander Terebenyov. Studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1803–15). Awarded ...
Sculptor, draughtsman, engraver, caricaturist, teacher. Son of wooden sculptor Ivan Terebenyov, brother of Mikhail Terebenyov, father of Alexander Terebenyov. Studied under Mikhail Kozlovsky at the I...
Painter, draughtsman, illustrator. Born in Yaroslavl in the family of Loggin Shustov, an icon-painter for the Holy Synod (1786). Studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1795–1806). Awarded a minor s...
Architect, painter, draughtsman. Son of a Swedish painter called Lorentz Wittberg (1753–1834), who moved to Reval (1773), where he taught German and married a widow called Anna-Elisabeth Spaetter (17...