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Painter, draughtsman, lithographer, teacher. Father of Alexander Ivanov and architect Sergei Ivanov (1822–1877). Born to unknown parents in Moscow (1775). Grew up at the Moscow Foundling Hospital (17...
Painter, draughtsman, illustrator. Born in Yaroslavl in the family of Loggin Shustov, an icon-painter for the Holy Synod (1786). Studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1795–1806). Awarded a minor s...