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Painter, draughtsman, illustrator, teacher, ethnographer, writer. Grandson of founder of Kharkiv University Vasyl Karazin (1773–1842) and son of inventor Nikolai Karazin (1816–1874). Born in the slob...
Painter, graphic artist, explorer. Father-in-law of Pavel Chistyakov. Studied under Maxim Vorobyov at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1838–45). Awarsided two major silver medals (1839, 1844) and a majo...
Painter, draughtsman, caricaturist, teacher. Son of a cobbler from Bologna called Antonio Rizzoni, who served in the French army during the Patriotic War (1812) and settled in Riga, where he married ...
Painter. Studied under Sokrat Vorobyov at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1858–59). Awarded a minor silver medal for perspective painting (1859) and the title of free artist (1859). One of the first Ru...
Sculptor, medallist, draughtsman, engraver, painter, illustrator, writer, teacher. Born in St Petersburg to Count Pyotr Tolstoy and Elisabeth Barbot de Marny (1783). Studied at the Jesuit College in ...
Painter, draughtsman, teacher. Born in St Petersburg in the family of a palace official called Vasily Tutukin (1819). Worked at the Winter Palace (from 1834), rising to the rank of court fire-stoker ...
Finnish silversmith. Born in the town of Karis in south Finland (1798). Moved to St Petersburg (1817), where he qualified as an apprentice (1821) and master goldsmith and silversmith (1833). Opened a...
Engraver, painter, draughtsman. Studied under Fidelio Bruni at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1832–39). Awarded minor silver medals (1835, 1837), a major silver medal (1838) and the title of fourteent...
Sculptor, draughtsman. Son of the sculptor and bronzesmith Fyodor Kovshenkov (1785–1850). Studied drawing (1835–40) and sculpture under Baron Peter Clodt von Jürgensburg (1835–52) at the Imperial Aca...
Painter, graphic artist. Born in the village of Arkhangelskoe in Orenburg Province (1873). Graduated from the Neplyuev Military Academy in Orenburg (1891). Studied at the School of Drawing of the Soc...