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Painter, teacher. Born in the family of Colonel Alexander Vogel in Temir-Khan-Shura (now Buynaksk) in Dagestan (1872). Studied at the Faculty of Law of Moscow University (from 1891) and studied paint...
Painter. Born in the family of Alexei Yasinsky in Moscow (1874). Studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts and in studios in Munich (1890s) and the Königliche Akademie der Künste in Munich (1900–03). P...
Painter. Born in the family of Porfiry Nikitin in St Petersburg (1878). Studied under Alexander Kiselyov at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1901–10). Painted stylised pictures on themes of Old Russia (...
Painter. Born in the family of mathematician Andrei Kiselyov in Voronezh (1878). Studied under Dmitry Kardovsky and Ilya Repin at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1898–1907) and at the Académie de Rodol...
Painter, teacher. Born in the family of Mikhail Bobrovsky in Vitebsk (1873). Studied at the Vitebsk Seminary (1887–89) and the Imperial Academy of Arts (1893–1900). Painted female portraits in the Ar...
Painter, theatrical designer, graphic artist, teacher. Born in the family of Pavel Belkin in Verkhoturye in Ekaterinburg Province (1884). Studied at the Tomsk Institute of Technology (1902–03), Konst...
Jeweller, goldsmith, silversmith, merchant, industrialist. Cousin of Carl Wenig. Born in St Petersburg (1846) in the family of Gustav Fabergé and his Swedish wife Charlotte Jungstedt (1820–1903). Stu...
Swedish jeweller, silversmith, goldsmith. Hallmark: W.A. BOLIN. Nephew of Carl Edvard Bolin. Born in the family of Henrik Conrad Bolin and Natalie Rosenstrauch in Moscow (1861). Studied under his fat...
Swedish-Finnish jeweller, goldsmith, silversmith. Hallmark: H.W. in an oval. Born in the family of a Swedish fisherman and churchwarden called August Wigström and his wife Wendla Forsman in the town ...
Jeweller, goldsmith, silversmith. Hallmark: ?.?. in a rectangle or oval. Born in the Karelian village of Okulovskaya near the town of Petrozavodsk on Trinity Sunday (1860) in the family of a peasant ...