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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...
Painter, graphic artist, theatrical designer, illustrator, teacher. Born in the family of Semyon Naumov in Kazatskoe in Chernihiv Province (1884). Studied at the Nikolai Murashko School of Drawing in...
Engraver, illustrator, sculptor, painter, theatrical designer, art theorist, teacher. Nephew of Leonid Sherwood. Born in the family of lawyer and politician Andrei Favorsky (1843–1924) and his wife O...
Painter, graphic artist, lithographer, illustrator, designer, applied artist, teacher. Born in the family of an officer called Andrei Tyrsa in the village of Aralykh (now Aralyk) in Armenia (1887). S...
Draughtsman, engraver, painter, illustrator, designer. Cousin of Leonid Ovsyannikov. Born in the family of a timber rafter called Vasily Kuznetsov in the village of Pochinok in Nizhny Novgorod Provin...
Graphic artist, painter, sculptor, applied artist, illustrator, writer. Elder brother of Vladimir Tsigal, father of artist Sergei Tsigal (born 1949), uncle of sculptor Alexander Tsigal (born 1948) an...
Painter, graphic artist, illustrator, poster designer. Born in the Ukrainian town of Elizavetgrad (now Kirovohrad) in the family of Vasily Gershanik (1898). Attended secondary school in Elizavetgrad ...
Graphic artist, painter, illustrator, poster and book designer. Born in the Latvian port of Libava (now Liep?ja) in the family of naval engineer and amateur artist Valerian Voishvillo (1907). Moved w...
Graphic artist, poster designer, illustrator. Born in the family of Nikodim Voronetsky (1884). Worked in Rostov-on-Don under the pseudonyms of “A. V.” and “A. Kolyuchy” (1918–28). Illustrated the Don...
Painter, graphic artist, applied artist, illustrator, theatrical designer, teacher. Distantly related to Andrei Vasnetov. Born in the town of Vyatka (now Kirov) in the family of a priest called Alexe...