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Painter, graphic artist, bibliophile. Great-nephew of Scottish surgeon Sir James Wylie (1768–1854), personal physician of Russian emperors Paul I, Alexander I and Nicholas I and founder of the Milita...
Painter, teacher. Born in the family of a former serf called Lavrenty Gorokhov in the village of Beli in Moscow Province (1863). Studied under Illarion Pryanishnikov and Vladimir Makovsky at the Mosc...
Painter, draughtsman, illustrator. Born in the family of Alexander Sukhodolsky in the village of Vladimirskoe in Kaluga Province (1835). Studied under Sokrat Vorobyov at the Imperial Academy of Arts ...
Painter, graphic artist, illustrator. Born in the family of Ivan Navozov in Moscow (1862). Studied at the Stroganov School of Technical Drawing (1874–80), under Illarion Pryanishnikov, Pyotr Sorokin,...
Amateur artist, miniaturist, illustrator, civil servant, writer on art. Born in the family of Pyotr Solovyov in St Petersburg (1841). Graduated from the Faculty of Law of Moscow University (1864). Wo...
Painter. Born in the family of Yakov Kryzhitsky in Kiev (1858). Studied at the Nikolai Murashko School of Drawing in Kiev and under Baron Mikhail Clodt von Jürgensburg at the Imperial Academy of Arts...
Painter, graphic artist, illustrator. Born in the family of a serf called Pyotr Kondratenko in the village of Pavlovskoe in Penza Province (1854). Studied history painting under Karlis Jekabs Vilhelm...
Painter, draughtsman, teacher. Born in St Petersburg in the family of a landowner from Ryazan Province called Pyotr Zagorsky (1849). Studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1864–75, extern until 186...
Painter, draughtsman, teacher. Born in the family of Kirill Makarov in the town of Dusheti in Georgia (1842). Studied at the Novgorod-Severskaya Grammar School (1853–60) and the Imperial Academy of A...
Painter, graphic artist, teacher. Born in the family of a peasant called Vasily Lebedev (1852). Studied under Yevgraf Sorokin and Vasily Perov at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architec...