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Painter, graphic artist, theatrical designer, teacher, art theorist, poet. Elder brother of Yevdokia Glebova. Born in Moscow to a poor family of workers (1883). After the death of his father (1887) d...
Graphic artist, engraver, painter, teacher. Studied at the school of icon-painting at the Kiev Monastery of the Caves (1906–10) and at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (1910–...
Painter, graphic artist, illustrator, teacher. Born to a peasant icon-painter in Tambov Province (1861). Studied under Vasily Perov, Yevgraf Sorokin and Illarion Pryanishnikov at the Moscow School of...
Painter, graphic artist, set designer, illustrator. Descended from a Tatar prince called Bekhtei or Bakhtei (from the Turkic word bakht, meaning “luck” or “good fortune”) awarded lands in Novgorod (1...
Painter, graphic artist, illustrator, teacher. Granddaughter of Carlo Della-Vos, an Italian who settled in Odessa (early 19th century). Studied at Yegor Schreider ’s studio in Kharkiv (1891–94), unde...
Painter, graphic artist, theatrical designer, illustrator, teacher. Born into the nobility at the estate of Osurovo near Pereslavl-Zalessky (1866). Graduated from the Faculty of Law of Moscow Univers...
Painter, graphic artist. Son of Konstantin Savitsky. Studied under Konstantin Savitsky at the Nikolai Seliverstov School of Art in Penza (1902–08) and under Vladimir Makovsky at the Imperial Academy ...
Painter. Son of Ilya Repin. Studied at the Princess Maria Tenisheva School of Art in St Petersburg (1894–99) and under Dmitry Kardovsky and Ilya Repin at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1899–1905). Mem...
Painter, graphic artist, theatrical designer, sculptor, applied artist, illustrator, writer. Studied at the School of Drawing of the Society for the Encouragement of the Arts (1864–69), Faculty of La...
Painter, graphic artist, designer, illustrator. Ran away to sea and sailed to Egypt, Turkey, Syria and Libya (1898) and many Mediterranean ports (1904–08). Studied under Valentin Serov and Konstantin...