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Estonian painter, graphic artist, applied artist, architect. Born in the family of a Baltic German dentist called Eduard Ludwig Hefftler and his wife Marie Louise Haase in the city of Reval (now Tall...
Painter, graphic artist. Born in the family of Arkhip Bondarenko in the Ukraine (1866). Studied under Kyriakos Kostandi at Odessa School of Drawing (1880s), under Ivan Shishkin and Arkhip Kuinji at t...
Painter, graphic artist. Elder brother of artist Sergei Yegornov (1860–1920). Born in the family of Semyon Yegornov in Moscow (1858). Studied landscape painting under Baron Mikhail Konstantinovich Cl...
Painter, graphic artist, illustrator, decorator, teacher. Born in the family of a court councillor called Ivan Svetoslavsky in Kiev (1857). Studied under Alexei Savrasov, Vasily Perov, Yevgraf Soroki...
Painter, draughtsman, illustrator, teacher. Born in the family of Yefim Volkov in St Petersburg (1844). Studied at the School of Drawing of the Society for the Encouragement of Artists (1866–67) and ...
Painter, draughtsman, teacher. Born in the family of Alexander Pisemsky in Kostroma Province (1859). Studied at the Kostroma College and the Imperial Academy of Arts (1879–87). Awarded five silver me...
Painter, graphic artist, bibliophile. Great-nephew of Scottish surgeon Sir James Wylie (1768–1854), personal physician of Russian emperors Paul I, Alexander I and Nicholas I and founder of the Milita...
Painter, draughtsman, illustrator. Born in the family of Alexander Sukhodolsky in the village of Vladimirskoe in Kaluga Province (1835). Studied under Sokrat Vorobyov at the Imperial Academy of Arts ...
Painter. Born in the family of Yakov Kryzhitsky in Kiev (1858). Studied at the Nikolai Murashko School of Drawing in Kiev and under Baron Mikhail Clodt von Jürgensburg at the Imperial Academy of Arts...
Painter, graphic artist, illustrator. Born in the family of a serf called Pyotr Kondratenko in the village of Pavlovskoe in Penza Province (1854). Studied history painting under Karlis Jekabs Vilhelm...