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Painter, graphic artist, interior decorator. Granddaughter of Nicolas Benois, daughter of Eugène Lanceray and Catherine Benois (1850–1933), niece of Albert Benois, Léon Benois and Alexander Benois, s...
Graphic artist, painter, illustrator, theatrical designer, interior designer, teacher. Grandson of Nicolas Benois, son of Eugène Lanceray and Catherine Benois (1850–1933), nephew of Albert Benois, Lé...
Painter, architect, teacher. Grandson of architect Alberto Cavos (1800–1863), son of Nicolas Benois and Camilla Cavos (1828–1891), elder brother of Léon Benois and Alexander Benois, uncle of Yevgeny ...
Graphic artist, painter, teacher. Born in St Petersburg to a high-ranking civil servant called Pyotr Ostroumov (1871). Studied under Johann Wilhelm Mathé at the Baron Stieglitz Central School of Tech...
Slovenian scholar. Attended schools in Semi?, Novo Mesto, Prague and Sušak. Lived and worked in Russia (1908–17), where he joined the Slavophile movement and befriended Mikhail Le-Dantiu and Velimir ...
Painter, graphic artist, theatrical designer, illustrator, art theorist. Descended from Camille Ledentu, a Frenchwoman who followed her Decembrist lover Vladimir Ivashev into exile in Siberia. Son of...
Painter, graphic artist, theatrical designer, teacher. Graduated from Berdyansk Municipal School (1896). Studied under Kyriakos Kostandi and Gennady Ladyzhensky at the Odessa School of Art (1896–1902...
Graphic artist, painter, illustrator, theatrical designer, interior designer, architect, teacher. Born in Moscow to a furniture supplier called Ignaty Nivinsky (1880). Studied at the Stroganov Centra...
Painter, graphic artist, engraver, illustrator, teacher. Studied painting under Konstantin Korovin, Sergei Ivanov and Dmitry Scherbinovsky at the Stroganov School of Art and Industry (1901–07) and Ab...
Painter, graphic artist, sculptor, designer, teacher. Born in the family of a railway worker in Kursk (1899). Studied under Alexander Lyubimov at the Kharkiv School of Art (1914–18), served with the ...