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Painter, graphic artist, teacher. Born to a poor Jewish family in the town of Kybartai near Kovno in Lithuania (1860). Moved with his family to Moscow (1870). Studied under Alexei Savrasov, Vasily Po...
Painter, teacher. Born to German parents in Dorpat (now Tartu) in Estonia (1850). Studied under Constantin von Kügelgen in Dorpat (1866–67) and under Sokrat Vorobyov and Baron Mikhail Konstantinovich...
Engraver, draughtsman, illustrator, teacher. Added the epithet “Kavkazsky” (“of the Caucasus”) to his surname to distinguish himself from other artists called Dmitriyev. Studied engraving under Fyodo...
Painter, draughtsman, teacher. Son of Felix Lagorio (1781–1857), vice-consul of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies in Theodosia (1826). Studied under Hovhannes Aivazovsky in Theodosia (1839–40) and unde...
Painter, draughtsman, teacher. Father of Alexei Morgunov. Born to a haberdasher in Moscow and christened at the Church of St Nikita the Great Martyr on Shvivaya Hill (1830). Studied under Carl Wilhel...
Painter, graphic artist. Born in the Crimean port of Theodosia to a poor Armenian family (1817). His father, Kaitan Haivazian, was a ruined merchant who originally came from Galicia, where he took th...
Painter, teacher. Son of a Greek cobbler whose surname was derived from the profession of his Tatar father, who had been a goldsmith (Tatar: kuyumcu ). Orphaned at an early age (1845) and forced to e...