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Painter, draughtsman. Born in the family of Yakov Kryzhitsky in Kiev (1858). Studied at the Nikolai Murashko School of Drawing in Kiev and under Baron Mikhail Clodt von Jürgensburg at the Imperial Ac...
Painter, draughtsman. Born in Gatchina as the illegitimate son of a poor civil servant called Alexander Vasilyev (1850). Studied under Pyotr Sokolov (from 1865), under Ivan Kramskoi at the evening cl...
Painter. Born in the family of Rear Admiral Ivan Yendogurov in Kronstadt (1861). Studied under Yefim Volkov in St Petersburg (1880s) and at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1884–85). Member of the Socie...
Painter. Born in the family of an artillery officer called Pavel Pokhitonov and his Serbian wife Varvara Belich at the estate of Matryonovka in Kherson Province (1850). Studied painting in Paris, whe...
Painter, writer, teacher. Born in the family of Vasily Pereplyotchikov in Moscow (1863). Attended Alexander Kiselyov’s studio in Moscow (1881–82) and studied under Vasily Polenov at the Moscow School...
Painter, collector, museum official. Born in the family of Semyon Ostroukhov in Moscow (1858). Private student of Alexander Kiselyov (1880), advised by Ilya Repin (1881–82), attended Pavel Chistyakov...
Greek painter, graphic artist, teacher. Son of Petros Chimonas (officer in the Greek Battalion of Balaklava who took part in the defence of Sebastopole during the Crimean War ) and Photinia Vasilkiot...