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Painter, graphic artist, sculptor, theatrical designer, illustrator, writer on art, teacher. Grandson of Italian composer Cesare Pugni (1802–1870), who emigrated to St Petersburg (1850). Born Ivan Pu...
Painter, draughtsman, teacher. Born in the village of Kazanka in Samara Province (now Orenburg Region) in a family of poor peasants called Andrei Malyavin and Domna Klimovna (1869). Studied at the ic...
Painter, draughtsman, engraver, writer on art, teacher. Born in the family of a clerk called Vasily Shevchenko in Kharkiv (1883). Studied painting and drawing at Kharkiv Realschule (1892–93) and work...
Painter, draughtsman, engraver, theatrical designer, teacher, writer. Younger brother of the composer Paul Juon (1872–1940). Born in Moscow (1875) to Swiss-Russian insurance official Theodor Friedric...
Painter, graphic artist, illustrator, writer on art, collector, curator, restorer, teacher. Born in the family of a ploughman called Pyotr Jaremich in the Ukrainian village of Halaiki (1869). Studied...
Painter, applied artist. Born in the family of Nikolai Milioti in St Petersburg (1877). Studied under Alexei Korzukhin and Vasily Savinsky and graduated from the School of Drawing of the Society for ...
Painter, graphic artist, teacher. Born to German merchant Viktor Karl Theodor Hausch (1845–1929) and Baroness Mathilde Amalie Luise von Hauff (1846–1907) in St Petersburg (1873). Studied at the Refor...
Painter, sculptor, draughtsman, applied artist, decorator, theatrical designer, illustrator, teacher. Born in Brest-Litovsk in the family of military engineer Semyon Stelletsky (1875). Grew up on his...
Painter, graphic artist, applied artist, illustrator, teacher. Born in Tambov in the family of railway employee Savva Utkin (1877). Studied under Vasily Konovalov and Ettore Salvini-Baracci at the sc...
Painter, graphic artist, illustrator, teacher. Born in the family of Ivan Dormidontov in St Petersburg (1898). Studied under Arkady Rylov, Grigory Bobrovsky, Ivan Bilibin and Nicholas Roerich at the ...