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Armenian painter, graphic artist, theatrical designer. Born in the family of a priest and religious teacher called Akop Surenyants in the town of Akhaltsikhe in southern Georgia (1860). Studied at th...
Painter, draughtsman. Born in Gatchina as the illegitimate son of a poor civil servant called Alexander Vasilyev (1850). Studied under Pyotr Sokolov (from 1865), under Ivan Kramskoi at the evening cl...
Painter. Born in the family of Rear Admiral Ivan Yendogurov in Kronstadt (1861). Studied under Yefim Volkov in St Petersburg (1880s) and at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1884–85). Member of the Socie...
Painter, teacher. Born in the family of Vsyevolod Sukov in the village of Shakh-Murza near Stary Krym in the Crimea (1866). Did not receive a formal art education, but made long and frequent trips to...
Painter. Born in the family of an artillery officer called Pavel Pokhitonov and his Serbian wife Varvara Belich at the estate of Matryonovka in Kherson Province (1850). Studied painting in Paris, whe...
Painter, graphic artist, illustrator. Born in the family of Vasily Pirogov possibly in St Petersburg (1872). Studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1892–1901). Founding member of the New Society of...
Painter, teacher. Elder brother of the writer Mikhail Pervukhin (1870–1928). Born in the family of Konstantin Pervukhin in Kharkiv (1863). Studied under Bezperchy and at the Rayevskaya-Ivanova School...
Painter, writer, teacher. Born in the family of Vasily Pereplyotchikov in Moscow (1863). Attended Alexander Kiselyov’s studio in Moscow (1881–82) and studied under Vasily Polenov at the Moscow School...
Painter, collector, museum official. Born in the family of Semyon Ostroukhov in Moscow (1858). Private student of Alexander Kiselyov (1880), advised by Ilya Repin (1881–82), attended Pavel Chistyakov...
Painter, textile factory owner, entrepreneur. Born in the family of a merchant called Vasily Mescherin in Moscow (1864). Studied painting independently, enjoying the advice of Manuel Aladjalov, Vasil...