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Painter, draughtsman, engraver. Father-in-law of Vasily Zhukovsky. Born at the estate of Gut Rösthof in Livonia (now Restee in Estonia) to Saxon court chamberlain Christophor Hermann von Reutern and ...
Painter, draughtsman, lithographer. Son of the icon-painter Grigory Chernetsov, younger brother of Grigory Chernetsov, elder brother of Polycarp Chernetsov (1822–1842). Taught drawing by his elder br...
Painter, draughtsman, lithographer, teacher. Son of the icon-painter Grigory Chernetsov, elder brother of Nikanor Chernetsov and Polycarp Chernetsov (1822–1842). Taught drawing by his elder brother Y...
Painter, draughtsman, lithographer. Born in Moscow to a merchant called Ivan Moshkov (1792). Studied battle painting under Mikhail Ivanov at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1801–12). Awarded a minor si...
Painter. Born in St Petersburg to a member of the Izmailovsky Life Guards Regiment called Mikhail Matveyev (1758). Studied under Semyon Schedrin at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1764–78), graduating ...
Painter. Descended from a family of French Huguenots exiled to West Prussia (1685), who moved to Russia (early 19th century). Son of the trader Ferdinand Gottlieb Ammont (died 1842), younger brother ...
Polish painter. Born in the family of a Uniate priest in the village of Ulla in Vitebsk Province (1806). Graduated from the Faculty of the Free Arts of Polotsk Lyceum (1827) and moved to St Petersbur...
Painter. Born in the family of Christian Fricke, assistant inspector of classes at the Imperial Academy of Arts, in the village of Gorodets in St Petersburg Province (1820). Studied landscape paintin...
Painter, draughtsman, lithographer, illustrator, teacher. Born in the family of a peasant called Vladimir Pukirev in the village of Luzhniki in Tula Province (1832). Studied under an icon-painter in ...
Amateur draughtsman, painter, illustrator, writer. Descended from the Ramsays of Balmain in Kincardineshire in Scotland, who followed King James II into exile in France (1689). Great-grandson of Coun...