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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...
Studied at Fyodor Burov’s Classes of Painting and Drawing in Samara (early 1890s), Baron Stieglitz Central School of Technical Drawing in St Petersburg (1895), Riga Polytechnic Institute and Benjamin...
Painter, graphic artist, theatrical designer. Great niece of Alexander Pushkin ’s wife Natalia Goncharova (1812–1863). Born in the family of architect Sergei Goncharov (1862–1935) and Ekaterina Belya...
Painter, graphic artist, teacher. Studied under Vasily Konovalov in Saratov (from 1886), under Vasily Polenov at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (1890–91, 1893–95), under Pa...
Painter, graphic artist, book illustrator, art theorist. Studied at the Kiev School of Art (1902–05) and the studios of Sergei Svetoslavsky in Kiev (1905–06) and Fyodor Roehrberg and Konstantin Juon ...
Painter, graphic artist, theatrical designer, art historian, art critic. Grandson of architect Alberto Cavos (1800–1863), son of Nicolas Benois and Camilla Cavos (1828–1891), younger brother of Alber...
Jewish painter, graphic artist, theatrical designer, fashion designer, teacher. Born Leib Chaïm Israelevich (Lev Samoilovich) Rosenberg in the town of Grodno (Hrodna) in White Russia (1866). Studied ...
Painter, graphic artist, theatrical designer, writer on art. Born in Kiev (1878) to sugar refinery manager Severin Malevich (1845–1902) and his wife Lyudviga (1858–1942). Grew up in the villages of P...