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Engraver, illustrator, painter, theatrical designer, teacher. Studied painting under Illarion Pryanishnikov, Sergei Korovin, Konstantin Savitsky and Abram Arkhipov at the Moscow School of Painting, S...
Painter, graphic artist, architect, teacher, art historian, writer, restorer. Born in Budapest (1871) to ethnic Rusyn politicians Emmanuil Hrabar (1830–1910) and Olga Dobryansky (1843–1930). Forced t...
Painter, graphic artist, theatrical designer, applied artist, illustrator, teacher. Born Alexandra Grigorovich in the town of Bialystok in Poland (1882). Moved with her family to the Ukrainian town o...
Painter, graphic artist, illustrator, teacher. Studied at the Faculty of Law of Moscow University and Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (1912–17). Headed a Proletkult studio (from...
Polish painter, graphic artist, teacher. Studied at the Odessa School of Drawing (1880s), under Arkhip Kuinji at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1890–95) and at Anton Ažbè’s school of art in Munich (18...
Painter, graphic artist, teacher. Studied at an icon-painting studio in Saratov (1895), under Fyodor Korneyev in Saratov (1896), at the Alexei Bogolyubov School of Drawing in Saratov (1896–98), under...
Painter, graphic artist, architect, teacher. Born Nikolai Zagrekov to Russian lawyer Alexander Zagrekov and his wife Maria Tokareva in Saratov (1897). Studied under Fyodor Korneyev at the Alexei Bogo...
Porcelain artist, theatrical designer, graphic artist, illustrator, painter. Born Alexandra Schekatikhina in the town of Alexandrovsk in the Ukraine (1892). Graduated from grammar school in Alexandro...
Graphic artist, painter, theatrical designer, illustrator, decorator, teacher. Born in the village of Tarkhovka near St Petersburg to naval surgeon Jacob Bilibin and his wife Varvara Bubnova (1876). ...
Painter, graphic artist, theatrical designer, furniture designer, interior decorator, illustrator. Born in Moscow to a priest called Jacob Golovin, who served at the Church of the Annunciation on the...