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Battle Painter
Painter, draughtsman. Born in the family of Nikolai Filippov (1830). Studied under Bogdan Gottfried Willewalde at the Imperial Academy of Arts as an occasional (1847–50) and full-time student (1850–5...
Painter, graphic artist, sculptor. Born in the family of Pavel Krasovsky (1840). Educated at the First Military Academy in St Petersburg (1850s). Independently studied drawing and sculpture while ser...
Painter, draughtsman, lithographer. Born in St Petersburg in the family of a coachman of Tsar Alexander I called Ilya Baikov (1818). Studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1830s–early 1840s). Lived...