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Painter, lithographer. Born in the family of Alexei Vasilyevsky (1794). Studied portraiture under Feodosy Schedrin at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1803–16). Awarded a minor silver medal (1813) and a...
Draughtsman, lithographer, painter. Born in the family of sculptor Johann Georg Österreich (1790). Studied sculpture at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1801–12). Drew a series of portraits of Russian w...
Painter, teacher. Born in St Petersburg in the family of a retired sergeant of the Vyatka Infantry Regiment called Yeremei Yakovlev (1787). Studied under Stepan Schukin at the Imperial Academy of Art...