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Ippolit Goravsky

Painter, draughtsman. Elder brother of artists Apollinary Goravsky (1833–1900) and Hilary Goravsky (1847–after 1875). Born in the family of impoverished Polish nobleman Hilary Horawski and his wife M...

Sergei Svetoslavsky

Painter, graphic artist, illustrator, decorator, teacher. Born in the family of a court councillor called Ivan Svetoslavsky in Kiev (1857). Studied under Alexei Savrasov, Vasily Perov, Yevgraf Soroki...

Theodore (Fyodor) Kamensky

Sculptor, farmer. Born in the family of Major General Fyodor Kamensky in the village of Lesnoe near St Petersburg (1836). Studied under Ivan Vitali, Nikolai Pimenov, Baron Peter Clodt von Jürgensburg...

Mark Antokolsky

Sculptor, teacher, writer on art. Great-uncle of poet Pavel Antokolsky (1896–1978). Born as Marduk in the family of a poor Jewish innkeeper called Matvei who lived in the district of Antakalnis in th...

Lev Igorev

Painter, draughtsman, teacher, writer. Born in the family of Stefan Igorev, a rural sexton of the Church of St John the Baptist, in the village of Komarovka in Saratov Province (1822). Studied at the...

Alexander Dorogov

Painter, graphic artist. Born in the family of Matvei Dorogov (1819). Studied at the Mining Institute in St Petersburg (late 1830s) and under Maxim Vorobyov at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1841–47)....

Vasily Ekgorst (Eckhorst)

Painter, graphic artist, teacher. Born in the family of Yefim Ekgorst (Eckhorst) in St Petersburg (1831). Studied under Bogdan Gottfried Willewalde at the Imperial Academy of Arts (mid-1850s–1860). A...

Eugène Pluchart

Franco-German painter, graphic artist, photographer. Born in St Petersburg (1809) in the family of French printer Alexandre Pluchart (1777–1827) and his German wife Sophie Wagner (1782–1857). Studied...

Ivan Alexeyevich Ivanov

Architect, draughtsman, painter, engraver, illustrator, caricaturist, teacher. Born in the family of architect Alexei Ivanov in Moscow (1779). Studied architecture at the Imperial Academy of Arts (17...

Nikanor Tyutryumov

Painter, draughtsman, teacher. Born in the family of Leonty Tyutryumov in Novgorod Province (1821). Graduated from the Noble Regiment as an ensign of the Second Grenadier Artillery Brigade (1840). Tr...

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