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Painter, draughtsman, caricaturist, teacher. Son of a cobbler from Bologna called Antonio Rizzoni, who served in the French army during the Patriotic War (1812) and settled in Riga, where he married ...
Painter. Studied under Sokrat Vorobyov at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1858–59). Awarded a minor silver medal for perspective painting (1859) and the title of free artist (1859). One of the first Ru...
Painter, draughtsman, teacher. Born in St Petersburg in the family of a palace official called Vasily Tutukin (1819). Worked at the Winter Palace (from 1834), rising to the rank of court fire-stoker ...
Heinrich Stackenschneider, Harald Julius von Bosse, Ludwig Bonstedt and several other eclectic architects were inspired by Baroque and Rococo motifs between the 1840s and 1860s. The compositions and ...
Finnish silversmith. Born in the town of Karis in south Finland (1798). Moved to St Petersburg (1817), where he qualified as an apprentice (1821) and master goldsmith and silversmith (1833). Opened a...
Engraver, painter, draughtsman. Studied under Fidelio Bruni at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1832–39). Awarded minor silver medals (1835, 1837), a major silver medal (1838) and the title of fourteent...
Sculptor, draughtsman. Son of the sculptor and bronzesmith Fyodor Kovshenkov (1785–1850). Studied drawing (1835–40) and sculpture under Baron Peter Clodt von Jürgensburg (1835–52) at the Imperial Aca...
Polish painter, teacher. Son of the Polish poet Antoni Górecki (1787–1861). Born in the village of Dusieni?ta near Vilna in Lithuania (1825). Studied in Vilna and under Karl Brullov at the Imperial A...
Painter. Born in a lower middle-class family in Moscow. Studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture and worked under Karl Brullov. Awarded the title of non-class artist (1842...
Engraver, draughtsman, teacher. Studied under Baron Konstantin Clodt von Jürgensburg at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1838–43), graduating with the title of teacher of drawing (1843). Contributed wor...