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Painter, draughtsman, lithographer. Born in St Petersburg in the family of a coachman of Tsar Alexander I called Ilya Baikov (1818). Studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1830s–early 1840s). Lived...
Painter, draughtsman, teacher. Born in the town of Arzamas in Nizhny Novgorod Province as the illegitimate son of noblewoman Nadezhda Borisova and nobleman Pyotr Solovtsov (1776). Given to a local ch...
Painter, draughtsman, applied artist, teacher. Son-in-law of Alexander Stupin. Born in the family of a merchant called Mikhail Alexeyev in the village of Nikolskoe in Penza Province (1813 or 1814). S...
Painter, draughtsman, illustrator, caricaturist. Born in Kiev in the family of a merchant called Semyon (Vasily?) Bugayevsky-Blagodarny (1773). Studied under Stepan Schukin at the Imperial Academy of...
Painter, draughtsman, engraver, restorer, teacher. Born in the family of a serf called Mikhail Legashov in the village of Lipovka in Penza Province (1798). Studied music (1800s) and joinery (1810s). ...
Painter, draughtsman, engraver. Born in the family of Fyodor Gryaznov (1805). Studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts (from 1813), where he was assigned to the engraving class (1819). Awarded a minor...
Painter, draughtsman, lithographer, sculptor. Born in Tsarskoe Selo in the family of imperial groom and coachman Yegor Sverchkov (1817). Studied under Alexander Gottlob Sauerweid at the school of the...
Painter, lithographer, draughtsman. Father of Alexander Hermann Beggrow. Born in Riga in the family of a German watchmaker called Peter Beggrow (1799). Studied lithography in the private studio of hi...
Painter. Born in Tobolsk in the family of a civil servant called Yegor Pushkarev (1821). Studied at the School of the Resurrection in St Petersburg (1833–35) and under Alexei Markov at the Imperial A...
Painter, draughtsman, teacher. Studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts and granted the right to teach drawing in grammar schools. Taught drawing at Vyatka Grammar School (1851).