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Painter, draughtsman. Father of Apollon, Valerian and Leonid Maikov. Born in the family of Apollon Maikov in Moscow (1794). Educated at the Second Military Academy, graduated as an army field officer...
Painter. Born in the family of Alexander Bubnov in Gatchina (1850). Studied under Ivan Kramskoi at the evening classes of the School of Drawing of the Society for the Encouragement of the Arts (1863–...
German draughtsman, painter. Born in St Petersburg (1834) in the family of a German clockmaker called Friedrich Gotthard Bagantz (1802–1889), who moved to St Petersburg during the reign of Tsar Alexa...
Painter, graphic artist, theatrical designer, professional musician. Born in the family of Ivan Denisov in Zamo?? in Poland (1862). Attended Konstantin Korovin’s studio (1897–98) and studied under Ko...
Photographer. Born in the family of Pyotr Nastyukov (circa 1840). Worked in Moscow, Kostroma and Nizhny Novgorod. Official photographer of the future Tsar Alexander III. Took photographs of Volga tow...
Photographer, collector. Born in the family of Dmitry Mashukov (1866). Collected photographs of historical works of art and architecture, particularly churches and religious ornaments (mid-1860s). Wo...
Architect, draughtsman, designer, illustrator. Born in St Petersburg in the family of a physician of French descent called Alexander Hartmann (1834). Raised by the architect Alexander Gemilian after ...
Painter, graphic artist, teacher. Born in the family of Georgy Beideman in St Petersburg (1826). Studied under Karl Brullov and Alexei Markov at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1840s–50s). Awarded a ma...
Photographer, traveller. Born in Tiflis to the Italian architect Luigi Caribaggio and his Georgian-Austrian wife who later remarried a man called Yermakov (1846). Graduated from the Military Academy ...
Painter, draughtsman. Born in the family of Yakov Kryzhitsky in Kiev (1858). Studied at the Nikolai Murashko School of Drawing in Kiev and under Baron Mikhail Clodt von Jürgensburg at the Imperial Ac...