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Painter. Born in the family of Alexei Smirnov in St Petersburg (1875). Influenced by the Impressionists and Vincent van Gogh (1900s). Painted a portrait of Alexander Ivanov (1907), an art historian w...
Painter, graphic artist. Born in the family of Semyon Pyrin in the village of Chentsovo in Yaroslavl Province (1874). Studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (1892–1900)....
Painter, graphic artist, theatrical designer, teacher. Born in the Ukrainian town of Elizavetgrad (now Kirovohrad) in the family of Alexander Osmyorkin (1892). Studied at the School of Drawing of the...
Graphic artist, painter, sculptor, teacher. Born in the family of Ivan Lvov in Tobolsk (1882). Studied under Nikolai Ulyanov in Moscow (1897–99), at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Archi...
Painter. Born in the family of a peasant called Fyodor Kolesnikov in the village of Andrianopole in Ekaterinoslav Province (1879). Studied at the Odessa School of Art (1890s) and under Alexander Kise...
Painter, graphic artist, theatrical designer, teacher. Born in Tula in the family of a priest called Vasily Rozhdestvensky (1884). Studied under Abram Arkhipov, Konstantin Korovin and Valentin Serov ...
Painter, graphic artist, sculptor, theatrical designer, teacher. Born in Smolensk (1900) in the family of a Jewish journalist and publisher from Vitebsk called Itzhak Labas and his wife Chaya, who di...
Painter, graphic artist, theatrical and poster designer, poet, teacher. Father of Valery Volkov and artist Alexander Volkov (born 1937). Born to Nikolai Volkov (Russian army doctor of the 14th Turkes...
Painter, graphic artist, architect, designer, illustrator, writer on art, teacher. Born Eliezer Lisitsky in the family of Jewish craftsman Mordukh Lisitsky and housewife Sarra Leiboyna in the town of...
Painter, graphic artist, theatrical designer, interior designer, teacher. Born in Kaluga in the family of Alexei Kudryashov, a constructor who made models of rockets for Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (1896)....