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Painter, graphic artist, collector, teacher. Born in the family of a wealthy landowner called Dmitry Kuznetsov at the estate of Stepanovka near Odessa in the Ukraine (1850). Studied under Pavel Chist...
Sculptor. Born in St Petersburg (1871) in the family of Baron Konstantin Paul Eduard Rausch von Traubenberg (1847–1898) and Elisabeth Montrésor (1848–1906). Graduated from the Corps des Pages in St P...
Painter, graphic artist, decorator, photographer, ethnographer, explorer. Born in the family of a teacher called Martin Dudin-Marcinkiewicz in the Ukrainian village of Rovnoe in Kherson Province (186...
Painter. Born in the family of a doctor called Victor Moravov in the village of Velikaya Motovilovka in the Ukraine (1878). Studied at the Nikolai Murashko School of Drawing in Kiev (1888–97) and the...
Latvian painter, teacher. Born at Jaužos in the parish of Zaube near Riga (1872). Studied under Arkhip Kuinji (from 1895) at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1890–97). Fellow of the Imperial Academy of ...
Graphic artist, painter, theatrical designer, teacher. Born in the family of Ivan Bystrenin in the town of Bolkhov in Oryol Province (1872). Studied at the Nikolai Murashko School of Drawing in Kiev,...
Painter, graphic artist. Born in the family of Alexei Vladimirov and his British artist wife in Vilna (now Vilnius) in Lithuania (1869/70). Studied under Bogdan Gottfried Willewalde and Franz Roubaud...
Painter, graphic artist, illustrator, teacher. Born in the family of Fyodor Afanasiev in St Petersburg (1850). Extern student of the Imperial Academy of Arts (1872–80). Taught at the School of Drawin...
Graphic artist, teacher. Born in the family of Nikolai Gerardov in Odessa (1873). Studied at the Odessa School of Drawing (1888–93) and under Johann Wilhelm Mathe at the Imperial Academy of Arts. Awa...
Graphic artist, illustrator, silhouettist. Born in the family of a Baltic German nobleman called Vasily Helmersen (1873). Studied law at St Petersburg University. Served in the Imperial Ministry of t...