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Valerian (Valery) Yablochkin
Painter. Born in St Petersburg (1840s) in the family of Alexander Yablochkin (actor, director of the Alexandrinsky Theatre and amateur artist). Studied alongside Fyodor Vasilyev and Mikhail Vrubel at the School of Drawing of the Society for the Encouragement of the Arts (1863–67). Extern student of the Imperial Academy of Arts (1867–74). Died in St Petersburg (after 1887). Contributed to the exhibitions of the Imperial Academy of Arts (1869, 1873, 1887).