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Amateur painter, teacher. Born in the family of Vasily Ustinov (1796). Graduated from the First Military Academy in St Petersburg and served in the Russian army (1820s). Director of a grammar school ...
Painter, graphic artist. Born in Nizhny Novgorod in the family of a self-taught artist and serf of Prince Nikolai Shakhovskoi called Stepan Mikhailov and his actress wife (1818). Awarded his freedom ...
Engraver, illustrator. Studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts (from 1809). Worked as an engraver at the Military Printing Works in St Petersburg (1830s–50s). Contributed lithographs to Costumes and ...
Painter, draughtsman, engraver. Father-in-law of Vasily Zhukovsky. Born at the estate of Gut Rösthof in Livonia (now Restee in Estonia) to Saxon court chamberlain Christophor Hermann von Reutern and ...
Painter, draughtsman, teacher. Illegitimate son of Baltic German nobleman Friedrich Dietrich von Knigge and Latvian peasant woman Lavize Brivina. Adopted his father’s surname spelt backwards. Born on...