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Engraver, illustrator, teacher. Illegitimate son of the writer Mikhail Muravyov and a serf woman who was given in marriage to Muravyov’s chamberlain Ivan Utkin. Born in the house of his grandfather N...
Estonian engraver, illustrator, painter. Born in the family of a Swedish stonemason in the town of Wesenberg (now Rakvere) in Estonia (1800). Moved to St Petersburg and enrolled at the Imperial Acade...
Polish draughtsman, lithographer, painter, illustrator. Born to the family of an inn-keeper in Warsaw (1777). Studied under Jean-Pierre Norblin de la Gourdaine, Marcello Bacciarelli, Bartolomeo Folli...
Painter. Born to a family of Baltic Germans in Reval (1802). Worked as an assistant to George Dawe, helping him to paint the portraits for the Military Gallery of the Winter Palace (1822–28). Studied ...
Painter, draughtsman, engraver, teacher. Son of Georg Dietrich Warnik, a furniture and cabinet maker from Danzig, who later changed his surname to Warnek (1833). Studied under Stepan Schukin and Dmit...
Painter. Son of Feodosy Schedrin, nephew of Semyon Schedrin. Studied landscape painting under Fyodor Alexeyev, Mikhail Ivanov and Jean-François Thomas de Thomon at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1800–...
Painter, teacher. Born in St Petersburg to Johann von Rabus, a German tutor at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1800). Studied under Mikhail Ivanov and Maxim Vorobyov at the Imperial Academy of Arts (18...
Painter, graphic artist, engraver, illustrator, ceramist. Son of Friedrich Gottlieb Timm (mayor of Riga) and brother of Emilija Timm (briefly wife of Karl Brullov ). Studied battle painting under Ale...
Painter, draughtsman, teacher. Half-brother of Alexander Brullov and Karl Brullov. Great-grandson of Hans Georg Brüllo, an ornamental sculptor descended from a family of French Huguenots (Brulleau) w...
Painter, draughtsman, theatrical designer, teacher. Younger brother of Alexander Brullov, half-brother of Fyodor Brullov, brother-in-law of Pyotr Fyodorovich Sokolov and Georg Wilhelm Timm. Great-gra...