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Painter, graphic artist, applied artist, illustrator. Cousin of Baroness Hélène d’Oettingen. Born in Moscow in the family of Count Nikolai Yastrebtsov (1881). Trained as a lawyer. Studied at the Kiev...
Painter, graphic artist, applied artist, theatrical designer, illustrator, writer on art. Born in Mesherskoe near Moscow in the family of Abram Tershkovich (1902). Studied in the studios of Konstanti...
Painter, graphic artist, applied artist, theatrical designer, illustrator, decorator, writer on art. Born in Moscow in the family of the Finnish owner of a piano factory called Leopold Sturzwage (187...
Painter, graphic artist, applied artist. Born in Poltava in the Ukraine in the family of Georgy Staritsky (1908). Studied at the drawing school of Tatyana Sukhotina-Tolstaya in Moscow and the studios...
Painter, graphic artist, applied artist, illustrator. Born in St Petersburg in the family of Baron Vladimir Staël von Holstein and his second wife Lyubov Berednikova (1914). Studied at the Royal Arts...
Painter, graphic artist. Born in Polotsk in Vitebsk Province in the family of Abram Sorin (1878). Studied under Kiriak Kostandi at the Odessa School of Art (1896–99) and under Vasily Savinsky and Ily...
Painter, graphic artist. Born in Elizavetograd (now Kirovograd) as Zakhar Rybak (1897). Studied under F. Kazachinsky at workers’ arts classes in Elizavetgrad (1907) and at the Kiev School of Art (fro...
Painter, photographer, writer. Distant relative of Wassily Kandinsky. Born as Yevgeny Rubin in the family of German Rubin in Kiev (1906). Lived in the Urals and Moscow (until 1927). Worked as an assi...
Painter, graphic artist, lithographer, theatrical designer, musician, actor. Born in Moscow in the family of Georgy Polyakov (1900). Lived in Turkey, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Germany and Austria (1919–2...
Painter, teacher. Born as Mane (Emmanuel) Kats in the family of Leizer Kats in Kremenchug in Poltava Province (1894). Studied at the Kiev Institute of Art (1911–13), École nationale superieure des be...