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Abram Arkhipov

Painter, teacher. Born Abram Pyrikov to a poor peasant family in the remote village of Yegorovo in Ryazan Province (1862). Studied under Vasily Perov, Alexei Savrasov, Vasily Polenov, Illarion Pryani...

Arkhip Kuinji

Painter, teacher. Son of a Greek cobbler whose surname was derived from the profession of his Tatar father, who had been a goldsmith (Tatar: kuyumcu ). Orphaned at an early age (1845) and forced to e...

Nikolai Kasatkin

Painter, teacher. Studied under Vasily Perov and Illarion Pryanishnikov at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (1873–83). Member of the Society of Travelling Art Exhibitions (fr...

Alexander Kiselyov

Painter, graphic artist, teacher. Born at the Russian naval fortress of Sveaborg outside Helsinki (1838). Studied at the Count Arakcheyev Cadet School in Novgorod (from 1850), Second Cadet School in ...

Grigory Myasoyedov

Painter, theatrical designer. Studied under Timoleon Carl von Neff and Alexei Markov at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1853–62). Foreign fellow of the Imperial Academy of Arts (1863–69). Lived in Flor...

Nikolai Ge

Painter, draughtsman. Great-grandson of a French émigré, who fled to Moscow after the French Revolution. Studied at grammar school in Kiev (1841–47) and at the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of K...

Leonid Solomatkin

Painter. Orphaned soon after he was born to a family of poor peasants (1837). Worked as a shepherd boy and a homeless carter. Travelled across Russia, selling icons and making sketches of street acro...

Vladimir Perov

Painter. Son of Vasily Perov from his first marriage to Elena von Scheinitz. Studied under his father at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture and possibly took lessons from Ilya ...

Ivan Shishkin

Painter, draughtsman, engraver. Studied at the First Grammar School for Boys in Kazan (1844–48), but dropped out to try and become an artist (1848–52). Studied under Carl Wilhelm von Rabus and Apollo...

Ivan Kramskoi

Painter, draughtsman, engraver, art critic. Worked for a travelling photographer as a retoucher (1853–57). Studied under Alexei Markov at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1857–63) and initiated the “rev...

Late 19th Century

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