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Painter, graphic artist, sculptor, illustrator, designer. Cousin of the pianist Maria Yudina (1899–1970). Born in Vitebsk in the family of a salt-mining agent called Alexander Yudin (1903). Learnt th...
Painter, graphic artist, applied artist, designer. Born in Chernihiv in the family of a teacher of ancient languages called Alexander Leporsky (1900). Grew up in Vyatka (1900s) and Pskov (1910s). Gra...
Painter, graphic artist, applied artist, designer, teacher. Born in the Latvian town of Lucyn (now Ludza) in the family of a small Jewish trader and craftsman called Grigory Chashnik (1902). Moved wi...
Painter, graphic artist, applied artist, designer. Born in Myatlevskaya on the Kaluga-Vyazma railway line in the family of assistant station-master Mikhail Suetin (1897). Attended grammar school in K...
Painter, graphic artist. Younger brother of Mikhail Larionov. Born in the family of Fyodor Larionov and Alexandra Petrovskaya in the town of Tiraspole in Kherson Province (1884). Grew up at his grand...
Painter, graphic artist, theatrical designer, illustrator, theorist, writer, teacher. Elder brother of Ivan Larionov. Born in the family of an artist and military doctor called Fyodor Larionov and hi...
Painter, graphic artist, applied artist, theatrical designer, illustrator, poetess, teacher. Born in Novgorod in the Greek-Ukrainian family of Leonid Boguslavsky (1892). Studied at the School of Draw...
Painter, graphic artist, sculptor, theatrical designer, illustrator, writer on art, teacher. Grandson of Italian composer Cesare Pugni (1802–1870), who emigrated to St Petersburg (1850). Born Ivan Pu...
Painter, draughtsman, engraver, writer on art, teacher. Born in the family of a clerk called Vasily Shevchenko in Kharkiv (1883). Studied painting and drawing at Kharkiv Realschule (1892–93) and work...
Painter, graphic artist, illustrator, decorator, teacher. Descended from Florentine humanist and historian Leonardo Bruni (c. 1370–1444), great-grandson of Fidelio Bruni and Pyotr Fyodorovich Sokolov...