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Jewish photographer. Born in the family of Vladimir Steinberg (1880). Printed report photographs and portraits of contemporaries in Sun of Russia. Famous for his photographs from the front line durin...
Genre photographer. Born in the family of Sergei Mazurin in Moscow (1846). Studied at commercial college in Frankfurt-on-Main. Studied painting under Nikolai Nevrev. Took up photography (early 1880s)...
Photographer. Born in the family of a rural dean called Alexander Lobovikov in the village of Belaya in Vyatka Province (1870). Studied at Glazov Religious Seminary. Worked as an apprentice in a phot...
German photographer. Born in Leobschütz in Prussia (now G?ubczyce in Poland) in the family of Carl Bulla (1853). Ran away from home to St Petersburg (mid-1860s). Studied photography in a small firm c...
Painter, teacher. Born in the family of Fyodor Shemyakin in Moscow (1875). Studied under Valentin Serov and Konstantin Korovin at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (1892–99, 1...
Painter, graphic artist, theatrical designer. Grandfather of Vladimir Yakovlev. Born in the family of an Old Believer peasant called Nikolai Yakovlev in the town of Mikhailov in Ryazan Province (1880...
Painter, graphic artist, theatrical designer, art theorist, teacher. Born in the family of artist Pyotr Krymov in Moscow (1884). Studied under Apollinary Vasnetsov, Valentin Serov and Konstantin Koro...
Engraver, painter. Born in the family of Yevtikhy Kostenko in Kharkiv (1879). Graduated from the Moscow University (1904). Studied at Fyodor Rerberg’s studio in Moscow (1904–06) and Elizaveta Kruglik...
Painter, teacher. Born in the family of Ivan Petrovichev in the village of Vysokovo in Yaroslavl Province (1873). Studied under Abram Arkhipov and Isaac Levitan at the Moscow School of Painting, Scul...
Painter. Born in the family of a doctor called Victor Turzhansky in Ekaterinburg (1875). Studied at the Central School of Technical Drawing (1895), Stroganov School of Art and Industry (1896–97) and ...