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Painter, graphic artist, designer, teacher. Sister of Boris and Xenia Ender. Born in St Petersburg to an agronomist of German descent (1897). Studied philology at the Petrograd Pedagogical Institute ...
Painter, graphic artist, designer. Sister of Boris and Maria Ender. Born in White Russia to an agronomist of German descent (1895). Studied under Mikhail Matiushin at the studio of spatial realism in...
Painter, graphic artist, designer. Brother of Xenia and Maria Ender. Born in St Petersburg to an agronomist of German descent (1893). Studied at Ivan Bilibin’s studio in St Petersburg (1905–07) and m...
Painter, graphic artist, illustrator, writer, poetess, playwright. Pseudonym of Eleonora von Notenberg. Sister of Ekaterina Niesen. Studied at the School of Drawing of the Society for the Encourageme...
Painter, graphic artist, composer, art theorist, teacher. Illegitimate son of an accountant (N. A. Saburov) and a serf woman (1861), who was rejected by his father and took his mother’s surname. Stud...
Painter, graphic artist, theatrical designer, teacher, art theorist, poet. Elder brother of Yevdokia Glebova. Born in Moscow to a poor family of workers (1883). After the death of his father (1887) d...
Graphic artist, engraver, painter, teacher. Studied at the school of icon-painting at the Kiev Monastery of the Caves (1906–10) and at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (1910–...
Painter, graphic artist, set designer, illustrator. Descended from a Tatar prince called Bekhtei or Bakhtei (from the Turkic word bakht, meaning “luck” or “good fortune”) awarded lands in Novgorod (1...
Painter, graphic artist, designer, illustrator. Ran away to sea and sailed to Egypt, Turkey, Syria and Libya (1898) and many Mediterranean ports (1904–08). Studied under Valentin Serov and Konstantin...
Painter, graphic artist, illustrator, designer, art theorist, poetess. Studied at grammar school for girls in Vladimir-on-Klyazma (1896–1904), Stroganov School of Art and Industry in Moscow (1904–10)...