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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, draughtsman, poet. Born in the family of a poor civil servant in Moscow (1815). Studied at the First Moscow Military Academy (1826–33) and served in the Finland Life Guards Regiment in St Pe...