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Painter, graphic artist, teacher. Born in the family of Georgy Beideman in St Petersburg (1826). Studied under Karl Brullov and Alexei Markov at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1840s–50s). Awarded a ma...
Painter, mosaicist. Younger brother of artist and archaeologist Fyodor Solntsev (1801–1892). Born in the family of a former serf called Grigory Solntsev and his wife Elizaveta in the village of Verkh...
Painter, draughtsman, teacher. Born in the family of Dmitry Losyev in the town of Bezhetsk in Tver Province (1835). Studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1850s). Awarded the title of free artist o...
Sculptor. Born in St Petersburg in the family of a serf called Nikita Durnov (1825). Awarded his freedom and the title of non-class artist (1848). Sculpted busts of architect Dmitry Shebuyev (1847), ...
Painter, draughtsman, caricaturist. Born in the town of Ufa in Orenburg Province (now Bashkortostan) in the family of a serf called Isaac Timashevsky (1822). Awarded his freedom from a landowner call...
Sculptor, draughtsman, teacher, writer on art. Born in St Petersburg in a family of actors of the Imperial Theatres (1817). Danced at the Bolshoi (Stone) Theatre (1824) and took drawing lessons from ...
Sculptor, teacher. Raised at the Moscow Foundling Hospital (1828–38). Studied sculpture under Nikolai Ramazanov at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (1847–50). Awarded the tit...
Painter, draughtsman, teacher. Born as a serf in the family of Ivan Ivanov in the village of Kazakovo near Palekh (1818). Moved to St Petersburg (1833), where he studied under Grigory Chernetsov and ...
Painter, draughtsman. Born to Andrei Ivanov and Ekaterina Demmert in St Petersburg (1806). Studied under his father and Alexei Yegorov at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1817–27). Awarded a major silve...
Painter, draughtsman, lithographer. Son of the icon-painter Grigory Chernetsov, younger brother of Grigory Chernetsov, elder brother of Polycarp Chernetsov (1822–1842). Taught drawing by his elder br...