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Painter, graphic artist, engraver, sculptor, applied artist, designer, poet. Son of Yevgeny Kropivnitsky and Olga Potapova, brother of Valentina Kropivnitskaya, brother-in-law of Oscar Rabin, uncle o...
Painter, graphic artist, teacher. Wife of Yevgeny Kropivnitsky, mother of Lev Kropivnitsky and Valentina Kropivnitskaya, mother-in-law of Oscar Rabin, grandmother of Alexander Rabin. Born in the fami...
Artist, poet. Husband of Olga Potapova, father of Lev Kropivnitsky and Valentina Kropivnitskaya, father-in-law of Oscar Rabin, grandfather of Alexander Rabin. Born in the family of Leonid Kropivnitsk...
Painter, graphic artist, illustrator, teacher. Born in Riga in the family of a German forester called Vladimir von Wiesen (30 December 1882). Studied under Konstantin Gorsky and Vasily Baksheyev at t...
Painter, graphic artist, teacher. Born as the illegitimate son of Nikolai Musatov and a woman called Ivasheva in Moscow (19 April/2 May 1900). Studied physics and mathematics at Moscow University (19...
Painter, graphic artist, designer. Born in the family of Vladimir Myslin in Moscow (1901). Studied under Konstantin Korovin and Mikhail Le Blanc at various schools of art (1918), VKhUTEMAS (1922–24),...
Artist. Born in the family of a peasant called Ivan in the village of Alexandrovka in Penza Province (1899). Orphaned at an early age and adopted by her father’s relatives from Grozny in the Caucasus...
Painter, graphic artist, theatrical designer, illustrator, teacher. Born in the family of Sergei Iznar in St Petersburg (1893). Studied at the Baron Stieglitz Central School of Technical Drawing and ...
Painter, graphic artist, designer. Born in the family of Alexander Borchmann in Moscow (23 July 1902). Graduated from grammar school and the Faculty of Pedagogy of Moscow University. Studied art unde...
Painter, graphic artist, illustrator. Born in the family of Ivan Shitikov in the village of Bachaty in Perm Province (3 December 1919). Graduated from the 1905 School of Art in Moscow (1938). Studied...