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Painter, teacher. Uncle of Varvara Baruzdina. Studied under Pyotr Basin and Maxim Vorobyov at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1849–61). Fellow of the Imperial Academy of Arts in Paris and Rome (1862–70...
Painter, graphic artist. Son of Pyotr Fyodorovich Sokolov, brother of Alexander Sokolov, nephew of Alexander Brullov and Karl Brullov. Studied under Karl Brullov, Pyotr Basin and Fidelio Bruni at the...
Painter. Son of Pyotr Fyodorovich Sokolov, brother of Pyotr Petrovich Sokolov, nephew of Alexander Brullov and Karl Brullov. Studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (from...
Painter, draughtsman, teacher. Studied under Pavel Chistyakov and Pyotr Shamshin at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1875–82). Fellow of the Imperial Academy of Arts in Italy (1883–88), visited Germany,...
Painter, draughtsman, engraver, illustrator. Father of Georgy Savitsky. After the sudden death of both parents, lived with an uncle in Daugavpils in Latvia (from 1854). Studied at the Imperial Academ...
Painter, teacher. Studied under Vasily Perov and Illarion Pryanishnikov at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (1873–83). Member of the Society of Travelling Art Exhibitions (fr...
Painter, graphic artist, teacher. Born at the Russian naval fortress of Sveaborg outside Helsinki (1838). Studied at the Count Arakcheyev Cadet School in Novgorod (from 1850), Second Cadet School in ...
Painter, theatrical designer. Studied under Timoleon Carl von Neff and Alexei Markov at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1853–62). Foreign fellow of the Imperial Academy of Arts (1863–69). Lived in Flor...
Painter, draughtsman. Great-grandson of a French émigré, who fled to Moscow after the French Revolution. Studied at grammar school in Kiev (1841–47) and at the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of K...
Painter. Orphaned soon after he was born to a family of poor peasants (1837). Worked as a shepherd boy and a homeless carter. Travelled across Russia, selling icons and making sketches of street acro...