Biographies

Biographies

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  • Nikolai Gumilyov

    Poet, writer, playwright, critic, translator. Born in the town of Kronstadt on Kotlin Island (1886) in the family of naval physician Stepan Gumilyov (1836–1920) and Anna Lvova (1854–1942). Lived in S...

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  • Lazar Khidekel

    Architect, painter, graphic artist, applied artist, teacher. Brother of the architect Lev Khidekel (1909–1977). Born in Vitebsk (1904) in the family of a Jewish stonemason called Mordukh Khidekel (18...

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  • Nicolai Fechin

    Painter, graphic artist, sculptor, architect, woodcarver, theatrical designer, illustrator, teacher. Born in the family of Ivan Feshin (c. 1850–1918) and Praskovia Chistova (1852–1920) in Kazan (1881...

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  • Nadezhda Nadezhdina

    Ballerina. Born in Vilna (1908) in the family of physiotherapist Sergei Brustein (1873–1947) and writer Alexandra Vygodskaya (1884–1968). Studied under Nikolai Legat and Agrippina Vaganova at the Pet...

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  • Nikolaos Chimonas

    Greek painter, graphic artist, teacher. Son of Petros Chimonas (officer in the Greek Battalion of Balaklava who took part in the defence of Sebastopole during the Crimean War ) and Photinia Vasilkiot...

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  • Vasily Sitnikov

    Painter, graphic artist, sculptor, teacher. Born in the village of Novo-Rakitino in Tambov Province (now Lipetsk Region) in the family of a peasant called Yakov Sitnikov (1915). Moved with his family...

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  • Andrei Andreyevich Popov

    Painter, draughtsman, teacher. Born in Tula in the family of a provincial icon-painter called Andrei Popov (1832). Studied under his father in Tula and under Maxim Vorobyov and Bogdan Gottfried Wille...

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  • Count Mikhail Sumarokov-Elston

    Russian tennis player. Descended from Alexander Sumarokov, whose great-granddaughter Countess Elena Sumarokova (1829–1901) married Lieutenant General Felix Elston (1820–1877), leading to the name of ...

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  • Suzanne Baumann

    Swiss artist. Born in Zurich to Swiss silk manufacturer Friedrich Baumann and Danish artist Else Lilly Hansen (1942). Grew up at Kilchberg on Lake Zurich (1942–58). Studied at Manchester Regional Col...

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  • Orest Kiprensky

    Painter, draughtsman. Born on the Nezhinskaya estate in the village of Nezhnovo halfway between St Petersburg and Narva (1782). Illegitimate son of landowner Alexei Dyakonov and a serf woman called A...

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