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Painter, graphic artist, sculptor, teacher. Born in the family of a carpenter called Vasily Kliunkov in Vladimir Province (1873). Worked alongside his father at a sugar refinery in Ramon in Voronezh ...
Painter, writer, poet, playwright, aviator. Father of Alexei Kamensky. Born on the River Kama on a steamer captained by his father Gavriil Serebrennikov (1884). Grew up in the village of Borovskoe in...
Painter, graphic artist, sculptor, illustrator, theatrical designer, art theorist, teacher. Born to a family of Jewish merchants in the Pale of Settlement (1889). Studied under Kyriakos Kostandi and ...
Painter, graphic artist, theatrical designer, illustrator, teacher. Born to a Jewish family in the Pale of Settlement (1881). Member of the General Jewish Labour Bund (1903). Studied at a private stu...
Painter, graphic artist, illustrator. Younger brother of David Burliuk. Born in the village of Chernyanka in Kherson Province (1886) to David Burliuk (manager of the local estate of Count Alexander M...
Painter, graphic artist, writer, poet. Elder brother of Vladimir Burliuk. Known as the “father of Russian Futurism.” Born on a farmstead in Kharkiv Province (1882) to David Burliuk (manager of the es...
Painter, graphic artist, theatrical designer, art theorist. Graduated from the Military Academy of Medicine in St Petersburg (1892), working there as a lecturer (from 1905) and as a surgeon at Russia...
Painter, graphic artist, theatrical designer, teacher. Studied at the Odessa School of Art (1898–1905) and under Jan Ciagli?skj at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1905–07). Member of Nikolai Kulbin ’s ...
Painter, graphic artist, lithographer, writer. Born in Torzhok in Tver Province to Colonel Georgy Jawlensky of the Russian army and his second wife Alexandra Medvedeva (1864). Grew up at the family e...
Painter, graphic artist, fabric designer, teacher. Born in Vitebsk in the family of Mark Magaril (1902). Studied under Marc Chagall, Kazimir Malevich and Vera Yermolaeva at the Vitebsk School of Art ...