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Draughtsman, engraver, painter, illustrator, teacher. Nephew of Mikhail Kuzmin. Born in the family of Nikolai Kupreyanov and Maria Myagkova in W?oc?awek in Poland (1894). Studied at the Prince Vyache...
Painter, graphic artist, theatrical designer, teacher. Born in the family of a lawyer called Ivan Pimenov in Moscow (1903). Studied painting and graphic art under Vladimir Favorsky, Vadim Falieyev an...
Sculptor, teacher. Born as Alexei Popov in the family of Fyodor Popov in Tver (1903). Later adopted the pseudonym of Alexei Yevgenyevich Zelensky. Studied at the Nizhny Novgorod Technical College of ...
Sculptress, teacher. Born in Rostov-on-Don (1893) in the family of a doctor called Ilya Ryndzune (1854–after 1917). Studied under Bulakovsky at the Académie Russe in Paris and advised by Émile-Antoin...
Sculptress, teacher. Born in the Ukrainian city of Ekaterinoslav (1894) in the family of Russian writer Yury Sandomirsky (circa 1870–1927). Studied at the Mikhail Bernstein and Leonid Sherwood School...
Sculptor, teacher. Born in the family of Moisei Chaikov in Kiev (1888). Studied at the École des Arts Décoratifs in Paris (1910–12), under the supervision of Naoum Aronson (1912–13) and at the École ...
Sculptress, teacher. Born in the family of Pyotr Dyomin in Kharkiv (1899). Studied at the Kharkiv School of Art (1918–19), Kharkiv Technical College of Art (1920–22), VKhUTEMAS in Moscow (1920–21) an...
Painter, graphic artist. Born in the family of Boris Elkonin in the village of Malaya Pereschepina in the Ukraine (1910). Studied at the Children’s Palace in Poltava (1920–23), Mikhail Le Blanc’s stu...
Painter, theatrical designer, film designer. Wife of Pavel Kuznetsov. Born in the family of Mikhail Bebutov in St Petersburg (1892). Born in St Petersburg (1892). Travelled across the Crimea (1907), ...
Painter, graphic artist. Father of artist Oleg Pochtenny (1927–1997), grandfather of artist Xenia Pochtennaya (born 1955). Born in Kharkiv in the family of a cobbler called Pyotr Pochtenny (1895). Gr...