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Graphic artist, painter, sculptor, theatrical designer. Grandson of Nikolai Kulbin. Born in the family of Vasily Kovenchuk in Leningrad (1933). Graduated from the Ilya Repin Institute of Painting, Sc...
Graphic artist, photographer, musician. Born in the family of Mikhail Langman in Odessa (1895). Studied at the Odessa School of Art, Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute and the Moscow Conservatoire. Played...
Painter, graphic artist, teacher. Descended from Swedish ancestors. Born in the family of Vladimir Johanson in Moscow (1893). Studied at Pyotr Kelin’s art classes in Moscow (1912–13) and under Arkhip...
Painter, teacher. Born in Pishpek in Russian Turkestan (now Bishkek in Kyrgyzstan) in the family of Afanasy Chuikov (1902). Studied at the Turkestan School of Art in Tashkent (1920–21) and under Robe...
Painter, graphic artist, book artist. Born in the family of Pavel Bubnov in Tiflis (1908). Studied at a studio of art in Atkarsk in Saratov Province (early 1920s) and under Konstantin Istomin and Pav...
Graphic artist, painter, draughtsman, lithographer, illustrator. Born in St Petersburg in the family of a theatrical designer called Ivan Rudakov (1891). Studied under Pavel Chistyakov and under Bori...
Graphic artist, painter, theatrical designer, illustrator, caricaturist, teacher, art critic. Born in St Petersburg (1889) in the family of philosophy historian Ernest Radlov (1854–1928). Studied the...
Graphic artist, illustrator. Born in the family of a Jewish craftsman called Boris Yudovin in the small town of Beshenkovichi in Vitebsk Province (1892). Studied under Yehuda Pen in Vitebsk (1906–10)...
Graphic artist, painter, teacher. Born in the family of Semyon Vereisky in the town of Proskurov (renamed Khmelnytskyi in 1954) in the Ukraine (1886). Studied at Yegor Schreider’s studio in Kharkiv (...
Jewish photographer. Born in the family of a Jewish bookbinder called Zechariah Penson in the small town of Velizh near Vitebsk (1893). Fled from the constant threat of pogroms to Kokand in Russian T...