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  • Alexei Yegorov

    Painter, draughtsman, teacher. Found by Cossacks in the Kalmyk steppe and taken to the Foundling Hospital in Moscow (1781). Studied under Ivan Akimov and Grigory Ugryumov at the Imperial Academy of A...

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  • Georg Wilhelm Timm

    Painter, graphic artist, engraver, illustrator, ceramist. Son of Friedrich Gottlieb Timm (mayor of Riga) and brother of Emilija Timm (briefly wife of Karl Brullov ). Studied battle painting under Ale...

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  • Fyodor Brullov

    Painter, draughtsman, teacher. Half-brother of Alexander Brullov and Karl Brullov. Great-grandson of Hans Georg Brüllo, an ornamental sculptor descended from a family of French Huguenots (Brulleau) w...

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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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  • Leonid Pasternak

    Painter, graphic artist, illustrator, teacher. Father of Boris Pasternak. Born Yitzhok-Leib Pasternak to the owner of a Jewish guesthouse in Odessa (1862). Studied at the Odessa School of Drawing (18...

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  • Pavel Chistyakov

    Painter, teacher. Uncle of Varvara Baruzdina. Studied under Pyotr Basin and Maxim Vorobyov at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1849–61). Fellow of the Imperial Academy of Arts in Paris and Rome (1862–70...

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  • Olga Della-Vos-Kardovskaya

    Painter, graphic artist, illustrator, teacher. Granddaughter of Carlo Della-Vos, an Italian who settled in Odessa (early 19th century). Studied at Yegor Schreider ’s studio in Kharkiv (1891–94), unde...

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  • Dmitry Kardovsky

    Painter, graphic artist, theatrical designer, illustrator, teacher. Born into the nobility at the estate of Osurovo near Pereslavl-Zalessky (1866). Graduated from the Faculty of Law of Moscow Univers...

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  • Antonio Vighi

    Italian painter, draughtsman. Member of the Accademia di San Luca in Rome. Invited to Russia by Paul I to decorate St Michael’s Castle (1799). Academician (1806). Worked with the architect Carlo Ross...

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