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Painter, draughtsman, teacher. Born in the town of Arzamas in Nizhny Novgorod Province as the illegitimate son of noblewoman Nadezhda Borisova and nobleman Pyotr Solovtsov (1776). Given to a local ch...
Painter, draughtsman, applied artist, teacher. Son-in-law of Alexander Stupin. Born in the family of a merchant called Mikhail Alexeyev in the village of Nikolskoe in Penza Province (1813 or 1814). S...
Painter, mosaic artist. Serf of Count Ivan Kuleshev. Born to Yegor Rayev and Pelageya Yemelianova in the village of Volok in Pskov Province (1808). Studied under Alexander Stupin at the Arzamas Schoo...
Painter, draughtsman, teacher. Studied under Alexander Stupin at the Arzamas School of Art and under Alexei Venetsianov in St Petersburg. Attended drawing classes at the Imperial Academy of Arts (183...
Painter, draughtsman, teacher. Illegitimate son of the provincial procurator Baron Grigory von Krüdener. Given the surname Perov from the Russian word for quill ( pero ) on account of his beautiful h...