Biographies

Biographies

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  • Ivan Martos

    Sculptor, teacher. Father-in-law of Alexei Yegorov. Studied under Nicolas-François Gillet and Louis Rolland at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1764–73). Fellow of the Imperial Academy of Arts in Rome (...

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  • Karl Brullov

    Painter, draughtsman, theatrical designer, teacher. Younger brother of Alexander Brullov, half-brother of Fyodor Brullov, brother-in-law of Pyotr Fyodorovich Sokolov and Georg Wilhelm Timm. Great-gra...

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  • Yevgraf Sorokin

    Painter, teacher. Studied under an icon-painter from Yaroslavl and decorated churches (1840). Painted a picture of Peter the Great spotting a talented artist (Andrei Matveyev), which was shown to Tsa...

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  • Pavel Fedotov

    Painter, draughtsman, poet. Born in the family of a poor civil servant in Moscow (1815). Studied at the First Moscow Military Academy (1826–33) and served in the Finland Life Guards Regiment in St Pe...

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  • Vasily Perov

    Painter, draughtsman, teacher. Illegitimate son of the provincial procurator Baron Grigory von Krüdener. Given the surname Perov from the Russian word for quill ( pero ) on account of his beautiful h...

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  • Alexander Kuprin

    Painter, graphic artist, theatrical designer. Studied at the Voronezh Free School of Painting and Drawing opened by the Society of Lovers of the Arts (1896–1901), Lev Dmitriyev-Kavkazsky ’s studio in...

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  • Pavel Kuznetsov

    Painter, graphic artist, theatrical designer, teacher. Husband of Elena Bebutova. Studied under Vasily Konovalov and Ettore Salvini-Baracci at the school of drawing of the Saratov Society of Lovers o...

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  • Wassily Kandinsky

    Painter, graphic artist, theatrical designer, art theorist, writer. Distant relative of Nikolai Bodarevsky. Descended from an old Manchurian family who were persecuted by the Qing dynasty and moved t...

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  • Nikolai Kalmakov

    Painter, graphic artist, theatrical designer. Son of a Russian general and an Italian woman. Studied at the Imperial School of Jurisprudence in St Petersburg (1890–95). Returned to Italy (1895), wher...

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  • Boris Grigoriev

    Painter, graphic artist, writer, teacher. Born in the house of Maria Gippius on Mashov Lane (now Chaplygin Street) in Moscow as the illegitimate son of an American governess called Clare Lindenberg a...

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