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Painter, draughtsman. Great-grandson of a French émigré, who fled to Moscow after the French Revolution. Studied at grammar school in Kiev (1841–47) and at the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of K...
Painter. Orphaned soon after he was born to a family of poor peasants (1837). Worked as a shepherd boy and a homeless carter. Travelled across Russia, selling icons and making sketches of street acro...
Painter. Son of Vasily Perov from his first marriage to Elena von Scheinitz. Studied under his father at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture and possibly took lessons from Ilya ...
Painter, draughtsman, teacher. Illegitimate son of the provincial procurator Baron Grigory von Krüdener. Given the surname Perov from the Russian word for quill ( pero ) on account of his beautiful h...
Painter, draughtsman, engraver. Studied at the First Grammar School for Boys in Kazan (1844–48), but dropped out to try and become an artist (1848–52). Studied under Carl Wilhelm von Rabus and Apollo...
Painter, draughtsman, engraver, art critic. Worked for a travelling photographer as a retoucher (1853–57). Studied under Alexei Markov at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1857–63) and initiated the “rev...
Painter, draughtsman, engraver, illustrator, teacher, writer. Studied at the Chuhuiv School of Military Topography (1854–57) and under Ivan Bunakov in Chuhuiv (1857). Painted icons and frescoes for l...
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...
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, teacher. Brother of the artist Elena Polenova. Studied under Pavel Chistyakov and Fyodor Jordan (1859–60) and Timoleon Carl von Neff (1863–71) at the Imp...