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Painter, graphic artist, applied artist, designer. Born in Chernihiv in the family of a teacher of ancient languages called Alexander Leporsky (1900). Grew up in Vyatka (1900s) and Pskov (1910s). Gra...
Painter, graphic artist, applied artist, designer, teacher. Born in the Latvian town of Lucyn (now Ludza) in the family of a small Jewish trader and craftsman called Grigory Chashnik (1902). Moved wi...
Painter, graphic artist, applied artist, designer. Born in Myatlevskaya on the Kaluga-Vyazma railway line in the family of assistant station-master Mikhail Suetin (1897). Attended grammar school in K...
Painter, graphic artist, sculptor, architect, woodcarver, theatrical designer, illustrator, teacher. Born in the family of Ivan Feshin (c. 1850–1918) and Praskovia Chistova (1852–1920) in Kazan (1881...
Sculptress. Born in St Petersburg in the family of civil servant Dmitry Dormilatov (1892). Studied at the School of Drawing of the Society for the Encouragement of the Arts (1906) and the Mikhail Ber...
Painter, graphic artist, illustrator, poster and theatrical designer, teacher. Born in St Petersburg in the family of a mechanic called Vasily Lebedev (1891). Graduated from the Peter I Commercial Co...
Painter, graphic artist, theatrical designer, film designer, decorator, teacher. Born in Moscow in the family of a cobbler called Ivan Shukhayev (1887). Studied under Ignaty Nivinsky, Stanislaw-Witol...
Painter, graphic artist. Younger brother of Mikhail Larionov. Born in the family of Fyodor Larionov and Alexandra Petrovskaya in the town of Tiraspole in Kherson Province (1884). Grew up at his grand...
Painter, graphic artist, theatrical designer, illustrator, theorist, writer, teacher. Elder brother of Ivan Larionov. Born in the family of an artist and military doctor called Fyodor Larionov and hi...
Painter, graphic artist, applied artist, theatrical designer, illustrator, poetess, teacher. Born in Novgorod in the Greek-Ukrainian family of Leonid Boguslavsky (1892). Studied at the School of Draw...