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Painter, theatrical designer, teacher. Studied at the Nikolai Seliverstov School of Art in Penza (1898–1900, 1905–06), under Nikolai Pimonenko at the Kiev School of Art (1900–04), Dmitry Kardovsky ’s...
Painter, graphic artist, theatrical designer, teacher. Studied at the Maria Rayevskaya-Ivanova School of Drawing in Kharkiv (until 1888), at the evening classes of the Stroganov School of Technical D...
Painter, graphic artist, theatrical designer. Studied at the Voronezh Free School of Painting and Drawing opened by the Society of Lovers of the Arts (1896–1901), Lev Dmitriyev-Kavkazsky ’s studio in...
Painter, graphic artist, engraver, illustrator, teacher. Studied at Saratov Religious Academy (1896–1900), under Abram Arkhipov, Konstantin Korovin and Valentin Serov at the Moscow School of Painting...
Painter, graphic artist, theatrical designer, art theorist, writer. Distant relative of Nikolai Bodarevsky. Descended from an old Manchurian family who were persecuted by the Qing dynasty and moved t...
Graphic artist, painter, theatrical designer, teacher. Studied at the Faculty of Law of St Petersburg University (1895–99), School of Drawing of the Society for the Encouragement of the Arts (1885–87...
Painter, graphic artist, writer, teacher. Born in the house of Maria Gippius on Mashov Lane (now Chaplygin Street) in Moscow as the illegitimate son of an American governess called Clare Lindenberg a...
Studied at Fyodor Burov’s Classes of Painting and Drawing in Samara (early 1890s), Baron Stieglitz Central School of Technical Drawing in St Petersburg (1895), Riga Polytechnic Institute and Benjamin...
Painter, graphic artist, theatrical designer. Great niece of Alexander Pushkin ’s wife Natalia Goncharova (1812–1863). Born in the family of architect Sergei Goncharov (1862–1935) and Ekaterina Belya...
Painter, graphic artist, book illustrator, art theorist. Studied at the Kiev School of Art (1902–05) and the studios of Sergei Svetoslavsky in Kiev (1905–06) and Fyodor Roehrberg and Konstantin Juon ...