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Engraver, draughtsman, illustrator, teacher. Born in the family of German civil engineer Wilhelm Mathé near the town of Eydtkuhnen (now Virbalis in Lithuania) on the Prussian-Russian border (1856). G...
Painter, graphic artist, illustrator, teacher. Born in the village of Bolshie Soli in Kostroma Province (now Nekrasovskoe in Yaroslavl Region) in the family of a rural priest called Arseny Vinogradov...
Painter, graphic artist. Born in the family of Mikhail Grabovsky in Ekaterinburg (1878). Studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (1894–1901) and under Pavel Chistyakov an...
Painter, draughtsman, lithographer, sculptor. Born in Tsarskoe Selo in the family of imperial groom and coachman Yegor Sverchkov (1817). Studied under Alexander Gottlob Sauerweid at the school of the...
Greek painter, graphic artist, teacher. Son of Petros Chimonas (officer in the Greek Battalion of Balaklava who took part in the defence of Sebastopole during the Crimean War ) and Photinia Vasilkiot...
Painter, graphic artist, illustrator, teacher. Elder brother of Konstantin Korovin. Born in Moscow in the family of an Old Believer merchant called Alexei Korovin (1858). Studied under Vasily Perov, ...
Painter, draughtsman, engraver, teacher, collector. Grandson of the writer Alexander Radischev (1749–1802), son of Colonel Pyotr Bogolyubov (c. 1780–1830) and Fyokla Radischeva (1795–1845). Born in t...
Painter, draughtsman, engraver. Son of Carl Joachim Beggrow. Born in St Petersburg (1841), where he studied at the Nicholas College of Engineering and the Naval Academy of Engineering and Artillery (...
Painter, lithographer, draughtsman. Father of Alexander Hermann Beggrow. Born in Riga in the family of a German watchmaker called Peter Beggrow (1799). Studied lithography in the private studio of hi...
Painter, graphic artist, applied artist, theatrical designer, illustrator, teacher, writer on art, historian, archaeologist. Younger brother of Victor Vasnetsov, great-uncle of Andrei Vasnetov, fifth...