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Graphic artist, illustrator, teacher. Born in the family of Alexander Vetrogonsky on a farm near the village of Pukhtayevo in Vologda Region (1923). Studied at the Leningrad Secondary School of Art (...
Porcelain painter, writer. Born in the family of Nikolai Bespalov in St Petersburg (1912). Graduated from the Leningrad Technical College of Art and Industry (1929–31). Worked at the Lomonosov Porcel...
Graphic artist, illustrator, decorator, poster designer. Born in the family of Dmitry Belukha in Simferopole (1898). Studied in Johann Wilhelm Mathé’s studio (1911), at the Imperial Academy of Arts (...
Painter, teacher. Born in the family of icon-painter Mikhail Cheptsov in Medvenka in Kursk Province (1875). Studied under Ilya Repin at the Princess Maria Tenisheva School of Art (1895–98) and under ...
Painter, graphic artist, illustrator. Born in the family of writer and teacher Alexei Lebedev and his wife Anastasia Mavrina in Nizhny Novgorod (1902). Studied under Nikolai Sinezubov, Nikolai Krymov...
Painter, fabric designer, graphic artist, teacher. Born in the family of Vasily Antonov in Tambov (1904). Studied at the Tambov Studio of Art (1916–21) and the VKhUTEMAS/VKhUTEIN (1922–29). Member of...
Painter. Born in Samara in the family of a railway clerk called Mikhail Romadin (1903). Friend of Mikhail Nesterov. Studied under Dmitry Scherbinovsky and Robert Falk at the VKhUTEMAS/VKhUTEIN (1923–...
Graphic artist, book illustrator, professional printer. Born in the family of Benedict Telingater in Tiflis (1903). Studied at the Narkompros studios of art in Baku (1919–20) and under Vladimir Favor...
Sculptress, draughtswoman, painter. Wife of Dmitry Zhilinsky. Born in the family of a man called Ivan in the town of Podolsk in Moscow Region (1926). Studied under Alexander Deineka at the Moscow Ins...
Painter, graphic artist, teacher. Husband of Nina Zhilinskaya. Born in the family of Dmitry Zhilinsky in the village of Volkovka near Sochi on the Black Sea (1927). Studied under Nikolai Chernyshov, ...