The Premier Site for Russian Culture
Jewish sculptor. Born as Nokhim-Leib Mogilevsky in the family of Schneer (Semyon) Mogilevsky in the town of Haradok (Gorodok) in Vitebsk Province (1895). Studied under a stone carver in Gorod (1905–0...
Painter, draughtsman. Born in the family of Yefim Zagoskin in the town of Surazh in Vitebsk Province (1900). Studied at the Odessa School of Art (1916–17) and the VKhUTEMAS in Saratov (1918–21). Move...
Painter, graphic artist. Born in the Latvian town of Grivo (now part of the city of Daugavpils) in the family of Ilya Malagis (1902). Grew up in poverty. In his youth painted movie bills and studied ...
Painter, graphic artist. Born in the family of Nikolai Traugott in St Petersburg (1903). Changed the spelling of his surname to “Traugot” (early 1920s). Studied under Alexander Savinov and Kuzma Petr...
Painter. Born in the family of Isaac Rusakov in the town of Sevsk in Oryol Province (1898). Studied under Nikolai Dubovskoi, Dmitry Kardovsky and Osip Braz at the Petrograd Free Art Studios/VKhUTEMAS...
Painter. Born in the family of a cobbler called Vasily Kuptsov in Pskov (1899). Studied at the Nikolai van der Vliet School of Art and Industry in Pskov (1913–18), Free Art and Technical Studios in P...
Painter, graphic artist, designer, illustrator. Born in the family of Yakov Senkin in the village of Pokrovskoe-Streshnevo near Moscow (1894). Studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and ...
Painter, graphic artist, theatrical designer, teacher. Born in the family of Nikandr Palmov in Samara (1888). Graduated from the Penza School of Art (1911) and studied at the Moscow School of Paintin...
Painter, graphic artist, designer, teacher. Born in the family of a peasant called Nikolai Redko (1897) in the town of Kholm in Lublin Province (now Che?m in Poland). Studied at the School of Icon-Pa...
Painter. Born in Moscow (1884) as the illegitimate son of Alexei Savrasov and Eudokia Morgunova (c. 1856–c. 1920). Studied at the Stroganov School of Art and Industry (early 1900s–1912), the private ...