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Painter, graphic artist, collagist. Born into a Russian-Jewish family in Constan?a in Romania (1955). Moved with his family to Pavlovsky Posad in Moscow Region (1956). Graduated from the 1905 School ...
Painter, teacher. Son of Alexander Volkov, elder brother of artist Alexander Volkov (born 1937). Born in Fergana in eastern Uzbekistan (1928). Studied under his father at Tashkent School of Art (1944...
Painter, graphic artist, interior designer. Born in the family of Vadim Shagin in Moscow (1970). Studied at the Moscow Palace of Pioneers (from 1980), Moscow Children’s School of Art No. 1 (mid-1980s...
Painter, graphic artist. Born in the family of Alexei Scherbinin in Moscow (1954). Graduated from the Moscow Institute of Polygraphy (1980). Took up abstract painting (1989). Member of the Union of A...
Painter, graphic artist, applied artist, designer, teacher. Born in Moscow to a Polish mother and a Lithuanian silviculturist called Vaclavas von Raube (1900). Grew up in the villages of Tarkhany in ...
Painter, graphic artist, cartoon designer, film director, teacher. Born in Simferopole in the family of a house painter called Pyotr Komissarenko (1891). Moved with his family to Moscow (1912), where...
Painter, graphic artist, sculptor. Born in the family of Yevgeny Arkhangelsky in Moscow (1926). Fought in the Second World War. Studied physics at Moscow University (1950–55). Took up sculpture under...
Painter, graphic artist. Born in the family of Pavel Poteshkin in the village of Alexandrovka in Bashkortostan (1926). Studied at a school of art in the village of Voskresenskoe (1942). Moved to Mosc...
Painter, graphic artist, theatrical designer. Born in Kherson (1932). Lived with his grandparents in Voronezh after his parents divorced (1935–39). Moved with his mother to Leningrad (1939–41). Evacu...