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Painter, graphic artist, illustrator, teacher. Born in the family of Ivan Lyubavin. Illustrated Elena Guro ’s The Barrel Organ (1909). Member of the Union of Youth (1910–14). Described as “young, fres...
Painter, graphic artist, choreographer, designer, teacher. Born in St Petersburg in the family of Josif (Osip) Kogan, a Jewish military doctor with the Seventh Samogitia Grenadier Regiment, who conve...
Painter, graphic artist, illustrator. Elder brother of the poet and diplomat Mikhail Basmanov (1918–2006). Born in the village of Batalovo in the Altai in the family of a peasant called Ivan Basmanov ...
Painter, graphic artist, architect, designer, collage artist. Born in Vitebsk in the family of a Jewish tailor called Moisei Royak (1906). Allegedly took up painting after Marc Chagall asked his fathe...
Sculptor, graphic artist, painter, applied artist, designer, teacher. Born in Vitebsk in the family of Aaron Jakerson (1896). Studied at Yehuda Pen’s School of Drawing and Painting (mid-1900s), Vitebs...
Painter, graphic art, applied artist, theatrical and cinema designer, illustrator. Born in Nikolayev in the family of a Jewish photographer called Menachem Mendel Krimmer (1900). Worked as a theatrica...
Architect, painter, graphic artist, applied artist, teacher. Brother of the architect Lev Khidekel (1909–1977). Born in Vitebsk (1904) in the family of a Jewish stonemason called Mordukh Khidekel (18...
Painter, graphic artist, illustrator, theatrical designer, teacher. Born at the estate of Petrovskoe in the village of Klyuchi near Saratov (1893) in the family of hereditary nobleman and liberal lan...
Painter, graphic artist, exhibition designer, illustrator, teacher. Born in Tomsk in the family of an archdeacon called Ivan Rozhdestvensky (1906), although later forced to conceal this information an...
Painter, graphic artist, sculptor, illustrator, designer. Cousin of the pianist Maria Yudina (1899–1970). Born in Vitebsk in the family of a salt-mining agent called Alexander Yudin (1903). Learnt th...