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Sculptor, applied artist. Born in Tashkent (1906) in the family of Jewish engineer Lev Slonim (1883–1954) and his wife Anna (1887–1954), who rented a room to writer Isaac Babel in Petrograd (1916). M...
Georgian painter. Born in the family of Terentius Tordia in the village of Norio near the town of Abasha in western Georgia (1936). Studied at the Iakob Nikoladze School of Art in Tbilisi (1951–56) a...
Sculptor. Born in Petrograd (1918) in the family of Jewish violinist Yuly Eidlin (1896–1958) and his wife Polina (1896–1980). Studied at the preparatory courses of the Institute of Painting, Sculptur...
Porcelain painter, book illustrator, restorer. Born in the town of Brest-Litovsk in the family of Nikolai Mokh (1911). Graduated from the Pavlovsk School of Art (1929). Worked under Nikolai Suetin at...
Sculptress, applied artist. Born in the family of Sergei Stolbov in the town of Glazovo in Vyatka Province (1908). Graduated from Vyatka Institute of Art and Industry (1926) and studied under Alexand...
Sculptress, applied artist. Born in the family of Boris Baskakov in the village of Kolodets in Oryol Province (1904). Studied at the Leningrad Technical College of Art and Industry (1923–26) and unde...
Painter, graphic artist. Born in the family of Alexander Popov in Kharkiv (1927). Studied under Pavel Koshevoi, Sergei Mikhailov, Vitaly Pochitalov and Akindin Shorchev at the Moscow Secondary School...
Painter, graphic artist. Born in the village of Nesterovo in Tver Province (1921) in the family of medical herbalist Ivan Zverkov (1890–1942) and his wife Maria Posadskaya (1891–1963). Moved with his...
Painter, graphic artist. Born in Moscow in the family of a chauffeur called Fyodor Stozharov (1926). Lived in Apartment 8 at 21 Large Carriage Lane in Moscow and spent his summers in the village of S...
Painter, graphic artist. Husband of painter Natalia Lyubimova (born 1924), father of artists Anna Bragovskaya (born 1957) and Pyotr Bragovsky (born 1965), father-in-law of artists Vladimir Sevastiano...