The Premier Site for Russian Culture
Painter, teacher. Born in the family of Alexander Roginsky in Moscow (1931). Studied under Mikhail Perutsky at the Moscow School of Art (1946–50), which was closed down for Formalism and transformed ...
Artist. Born in the family of Ivan Chernyshov in Moscow (1945). Painted his first works after visiting the exhibition of modern American art in Sokolniki (1959). Studied contemporary Western art from...
Graphic artist, painter, writer. Father of Hollywood producer Lati Grobman and Israeli architect Yasha Jacob Grobman. Born in the family of Yakov Grobman in Moscow (1939). Wrote poetry, essays and ch...
Painter. Born in the family of Yevgeny Vechtomov in Moscow (1923). Fought in the Second World War, including the Battle of Stalingrad (1942–43), escaped twice from a German prisoner-of-war camp. Late...
Artist. Born in the family of Woldemar Nussberg in Tashkent (1937). Studied at the Moscow Secondary School of Art (1951–58, expelled for abstraction) and graduated from the Moscow Regional School of ...
Artist. Born in the family of Foma Koleichuk in the village of Stepantsevo in Moscow Region (1941). Studied at the faculty of urban construction of Moscow Institute of Architecture (1960–66). Member ...
Painter, performance artist. Born in the village of Vasilyevka in Saratov Region in the family of a Spanish Communist and member of the Republican government who fled to the Soviet Union after the Sp...
Painter. Son of Oscar Rabin and Valentina Kropivnitskaya, nephew of Lev Kropivnitsky, grandson of Yevgeny Kropivnitsky and Olga Potapova. Helped to organise the “bulldozer exhibition” (1974). Emigrat...
Painter, graphic artist. Husband of Valentina Kropivnitskaya, son-in-law of Yevgeny Kropivnitsky and Olga Potapova, brother-in-law of Lev Kropivnitsky, father of Alexander Rabin. Born in Moscow in th...
Graphic artist. Daughter of Yevgeny Kropivnitsky and Olga Potapova, sister of Lev Kropivnitsky, wife of Oscar Rabin, mother of Alexander Rabin. Born in Tuchkovo in Moscow Region (1924). Studied in a ...