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Hungarian painter, draughtsman, lithographer, illustrator, teacher. Descended from an old family of Magyar nobility dating from the thirteenth century (1260). Younger brother of Antal Zichy (1823–189...
Painter, mosaic artist. Serf of Count Ivan Kuleshev. Born to Yegor Rayev and Pelageya Yemelianova in the village of Volok in Pskov Province (1808). Studied under Alexander Stupin at the Arzamas Schoo...
Architect. Born in St Petersburg to French émigré and imperial pastry-chef Louis-Jules-César-Auguste Benois (1770–1822) and imperial midwife Anna-Katharina Groppe (1777–1835) with Dowager Empress Mar...
Italian painter, lithographer, restorer, curator. Born in the family of Giovanni Brioschi in Florence (1786). Studied history painting under Pietro Benvenuti at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florenc...
Sculptor, painter, draughtsman, teacher. Studied sculpture under Baron Peter Clodt von Jürgensburg at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1850–57). Awarded a major gold medal and the title of first-class a...
Painter, writer, poet, playwright, aviator. Father of Alexei Kamensky. Born on the River Kama on a steamer captained by his father Gavriil Serebrennikov (1884). Grew up in the village of Borovskoe in...
Painter, draughtsman, teacher. Studied under Alexander Stupin at the Arzamas School of Art and under Alexei Venetsianov in St Petersburg. Attended drawing classes at the Imperial Academy of Arts (183...
Painter, graphic artist, theatrical designer, illustrator. Studied at grammar school and Ivan Kopylov’s school of art in Irkutsk (1901–13). Attended a studio of art in Paris (1913). Returned to Russi...
Painter, graphic artist, illustrator, art theorist, writer, teacher. Born in Warsaw in the family of a university lecturer called Vasily Sterligov (1904). Grew up in Moscow, where he attended grammar...
Sculptor, teacher. Father of Baron Mikhail Petrovich Clodt von Jürgensburg, uncle of Baron Mikhail Konstantinovich Clodt von Jürgensburg, grandfather of Baron Nikolai Clodt von Jürgensburg. Born in S...