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Painter, graphic artist, illustrator. Born to a family of peasant icon-painters in the village of Prislonikha (1893). Studied religion at Simbirsk Theological College (1903–08) and Simbirsk Religious...
Painter, graphic artist, theatrical designer, architect. Studied painting under Abram Arkhipov and Konstantin Korovin (1903–10) and architecture (1910–15) at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture ...
Painter, graphic artist, sculptor, theatrical designer, applied artist, illustrator, writer, teacher. Studied under Vasily Belyaev and Hugo Salemann at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1914–18) and unde...
Painter. Born in Moscow (1927) and showed an early interest in painting (mid-1940s). Studied under Mikhail Perutsky at Moscow Secondary School of Art (1943–46), Vasily Surikov School of Art (1946) an...
Painter, graphic artist, sculptor, teacher. Born in the family of a carpenter called Vasily Kliunkov in Vladimir Province (1873). Worked alongside his father at a sugar refinery in Ramon in Voronezh ...
Painter, writer, poet, playwright, aviator. Father of Alexei Kamensky. Born on the River Kama on a steamer captained by his father Gavriil Serebrennikov (1884). Grew up in the village of Borovskoe in...
Painter, sculptor, colour-music theorist, inventor, teacher. Born Shulim Wolf Leib Baranov to Jewish merchant David Baranov and his wife Rosalia in the Pale of Settlement (1888). Studied under Kyriak...
Painter, graphic artist, sculptor, illustrator, theatrical designer, art theorist, teacher. Born to a family of Jewish merchants in the Pale of Settlement (1889). Studied under Kyriakos Kostandi and ...
Painter, graphic artist, theatrical designer, illustrator, teacher. Born to a Jewish family in the Pale of Settlement (1881). Member of the General Jewish Labour Bund (1903). Studied at a private stu...
Painter, graphic artist, illustrator. Younger brother of David Burliuk. Born in the village of Chernyanka in Kherson Province (1886) to David Burliuk (manager of the local estate of Count Alexander M...