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Draughtsman, illustrator, painter, teacher. Illegitimate son of officer and landowner Alexei Yelagin and a serf woman who took the last four letters of his father’s surname. Born in the village of Iv...
Draughtsman, lithographer, illustrator, painter. Born in the village of Korbulaki in Saratov Province (1819). Moved with his family to St Petersburg (1822). Studied under Alexei Yegorov (1830s) and u...
French draughtsman, lithographer. Travelled across Russia, sailing via Le Havre, Hamburg and Lübeck and visiting Kronstadt, St Petersburg, Novgorod, Tver, Moscow, Sergiev Posad, Vladimir, Nizhny Novg...
Hungarian painter, draughtsman, lithographer, illustrator, teacher. Descended from an old family of Magyar nobility dating from the thirteenth century (1260). Younger brother of Antal Zichy (1823–189...
Painter, draughtsman, teacher. Illegitimate son of Baltic German nobleman Friedrich Dietrich von Knigge and Latvian peasant woman Lavize Brivina. Adopted his father’s surname spelt backwards. Born on...
Painter, lithographer, teacher. Serf of the Vladykin family who was sent to train in Moscow (1834) and granted his freedom with the help of Karl Brullov and Vasily Zhukovsky (1841). Studied under Vas...
Painter, draughtsman, teacher. Father of Pyotr Petrovich Zabolotsky. Studied under Alexander Warnek and Alexei Yegorov at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1826–31). Awarded a minor silver medal (1829), ...
Estonian painter, decorator, teacher. Born at the Russian naval base of Kronstadt (1812) to Admiral Otto Anton von Möller (1764–1848) and his wife Julianne Charlotte Elisabeth von Nolcken (1787–1873)...
Painter, mosaic artist. Serf of Count Ivan Kuleshev. Born to Yegor Rayev and Pelageya Yemelianova in the village of Volok in Pskov Province (1808). Studied under Alexander Stupin at the Arzamas Schoo...
Painter, draughtsman. Born in the family of an impoverished serf in Dorpat in Estonia (1811). Freed from serfdom (1816) and studied at the Alexander I Grammar School of Dorpat University (1827–29), w...