Empire

Boris Orlovsky

Sculptor, teacher. Born in the family of a serf called Ivan Smirnov in the village of Bolshoe Stolobetskoe in Oryol Province (1793). Became known as “Orlovsky” after the family moved from Oryol Provi...

Mikhail Terebenyov

Painter, miniaturist, restorer, teacher. Son of wooden sculptor Ivan Terebenyov, brother of Ivan Terebenyov, uncle of Alexander Terebenyov. Studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1803–15). Awarded ...

Ivan Terebenyov

Sculptor, draughtsman, engraver, caricaturist, teacher. Son of wooden sculptor Ivan Terebenyov, brother of Mikhail Terebenyov, father of Alexander Terebenyov. Studied under Mikhail Kozlovsky at the I...

Fyodor Matveyev

Painter. Born in St Petersburg to a member of the Izmailovsky Life Guards Regiment called Mikhail Matveyev (1758). Studied under Semyon Schedrin at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1764–78), graduating ...

Count Fyodor Tolstoy

Sculptor, medallist, draughtsman, engraver, painter, illustrator, writer, teacher. Born in St Petersburg to Count Pyotr Tolstoy and Elisabeth Barbot de Marny (1783). Studied at the Jesuit College in ...

Samuel Friedrich Halberg

Sculptor, teacher. Son of a Swedish estate manager in Estonia (1787). Studied under Ivan Martos at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1795–1808). Awarded a minor silver medal (1803), major silver medal (1...

Ivan Martos

Sculptor, teacher. Father-in-law of Alexei Yegorov. Studied under Nicolas-François Gillet and Louis Rolland at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1764–73). Fellow of the Imperial Academy of Arts in Rome (...

Alexei Yegorov

Painter, draughtsman, teacher. Found by Cossacks in the Kalmyk steppe and taken to the Foundling Hospital in Moscow (1781). Studied under Ivan Akimov and Grigory Ugryumov at the Imperial Academy of A...

Vasily Shebuyev

Painter, teacher. Studied under Ivan Akimov and Grigory Ugryumov at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1782–97). Awarded a minor gold medal and position of assistant teacher of the life class (1797). Fell...

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