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Painter. Born in the family of Mikhail Fokin in St Petersburg (1869). Studied landscape painting under Alexander Kiselyov at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1891–96). Academician (1902). Fellow of the ...
Painter, graphic artist, theatrical designer, teacher. Born in the family of a rural physician called Pavel Ulyanov in the town of Yelets in Oryol Province (1875). Graduated from parish church school...
Painter, graphic artist, applied artist, illustrator, theatrical designer, teacher. Born in the family of a train driver called Vasily Chekhonin in the village of Valdaika in Novgorod Province (now L...
Graphic artist, painter, illustrator, silhouette artist, teacher. Elder brother of the Acmeist poet Vladimir Narbut (1888–1938). Born to Ivan Narbut (impoverished member of the old Lithuanian nobilit...
Sculptor, applied artist. Friend and relative of Alexander Benois. Born in the family of Laurent Aubert, a French employee of the Imperial Theatres Company in Moscow (1843). Studied at the Faculty of...
Medallist. Born in the town of Kamenets-Podolsky in the Ukraine (1858). Studied at the Nikolai Murashko School of Drawing in Kiev (1876–80) and the Imperial Academy of Arts (1882–88). Awarded a major...
Painter, draughtsman, teacher. Brought up in Vyatka (now Kirov) by his stepfather after his father suffered a nervous breakdown. Studied at the Baron Stieglitz Central School of Technical Drawing (18...
Painter, graphic artist, illustrator. Born Elena Benard in St Petersburg (1863). Graduated from the Pauline Institute for Women in St Petersburg. Studied at the Helsingfors School of Drawing and took...
Painter, draughtsman, etcher, illustrator, teacher. Studied under Bogdan Gottfried Willewalde, Pavel Chistyakov, Valery Jacoby, Vladimir Orlovsky and Julius von Klever at the Imperial Academy of Arts...
Painter, graphic artist, illustrator, teacher. Granddaughter of Carlo Della-Vos, an Italian who settled in Odessa (early 19th century). Studied at Yegor Schreider ’s studio in Kharkiv (1891–94), unde...