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Graphic artist, illustrator, silhouettist. Born in the family of a Baltic German nobleman called Vasily Helmersen (1873). Studied law at St Petersburg University. Served in the Imperial Ministry of t...
Painter, graphic artist, theatrical designer. Granddaughter of Polish photographer Felicjan Chodasiewicz (circa 1834–1911), niece of the writer Vladimir Khodasevich (1886–1939). Born in Moscow (1894)...
Graphic artist, draughtsman, illustrator, theatrical designer, teacher, writer on book graphic art. Born in the family of Alexander Dekhteryov in Kaluga (1908). Studied at L. M. Yemelyanov’s studio i...
Painter, draughtsman, etcher, illustrator. Born in the family of a lawyer called Sergei Alfeyevsky in Moscow (1906). Attended the studios of Mikhail Le Blanc (1921) and Ilya Mashkov (1924) and studie...
Sculptor. Born in the family of Mikhail Orlov in St Petersburg (1911). Did not receive a systematic art education. Designed the monuments to Yury Dolgoruky in Moscow (1954) and Afanasy Nikitin in Tve...
Graphic artist, illustrator. Born in the family of Mikhail Rachev in Tomsk (1906). Studied at the Krasnodar Technical College of Art (1924–28) and the Kiev Institute of Art (1928–30). Worked for Ukra...
Graphic artist, painter, illustrator. Born in the family of Ivan Pikov in the village of Shmonikha in Vyatka Province (1903). Studied at the Vyatka School of Art and Industry (1920–21) and the VKhUTE...
Graphic artist, illustrator. Born in the family of Alexander Dubinsky in Novorossiisk (1920). Studied at Xavery Chemko’s studio (1938–39) and under Nikolai Radlov at the Moscow Institute of Fine Arts...
Painter, restorer. Born in the family of art collector and historian Vasily Pertsev in Yaroslavl (1902). Studied social sciences at Yaroslavl University. Worked at the Yaroslavl Museum (from 1924) an...
Painter, graphic artist. Born in the family of Mikhail Pavlov in the town of Buzuluk in Orenburg Region (1935). Studied the history of art (from 1953) and painting (1956–62) at the Ilya Repin Institu...