Alexei Venetsianov School

Alexei Tyranov

Painter, draughtsman, lithographer. Born in the family of Vasily Tyranov in the town of Bezhetsk in Tver Province (1808). Attended district school in Bezhetsk and grammar school for one year in Tver ...

Ignatas Marius Schedrovsky

Lithuanian lithographer, draughtsman, painter, teacher. Born in the Lithuanian town of Raseiniai in the family of a titular councillor called Steponas Cedrauskas (1815). Studied under Jan Rustem at t...

Pyotr Yefimovich Zabolotsky

Painter, draughtsman, teacher. Father of Pyotr Petrovich Zabolotsky. Studied under Alexander Warnek and Alexei Yegorov at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1826–31). Awarded a minor silver medal (1829), ...

Lavr Plakhov

Painter, lithographer, photographer. Studied lithography under Carl Joachim Beggrow and painting under Alexei Venetsianov (from 1829) and Maxim Vorobyov at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1832–36). Awa...

Kapiton Zelentsov

Painter, draughtsman, lithographer, illustrator. Son of the factory owner and collegiate assessor Alexei Zelentsov. Drew caricatures and popular prints during the Patriotic War (1812). Worked for the...

Prince Vasily Maksutov

Painter. Retired guards staff captain. Studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts (late 1840s–1853). Awarded a minor silver medal (1850), major silver medal (1851), minor gold medal (1852) and a major g...

Alexei Chernyshev

Painter, draughtsman, illustrator. Son of a soldier in Orenburg (1824). Studied drawing under an icon-painter and moved to St Petersburg (1841), where he studied landscape painting under Maxim Voroby...

Foma Alexandrov

Painter. Serf. Extern student of the Imperial Academy of Arts (from 1831), who probably studied under Alexei Venetsianov (1833). Fellow of the Society for the Encouragement of Artists (from 1832). Aw...

Yevgeny Zhitnev

Painter, lithographer, teacher. Serf. Studied painting under Alexei Venetsianov and lithography under Alexander Sandomuri (from 1831). Extern student of the Imperial Academy of Arts (from 1831). Awar...

Fyodor Slavyansky

Painter, draughtsman, engraver, teacher. Serf of the landowner A. Semenskaya. Studied under Alexei Venetsianov (from 1838), who helped to secure his emancipation from serfdom (1839–40). Extern studen...

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