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Painter, lithographer. Born in the family of Alexei Alexandrov (1798). Studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1806–17). Awarded a minor silver medal (1814) and a major silver medal (1815), but expe...
Wood engraver, illustrator. Born in Tula or Kaluga Province in the family of a peasant soldier from Kostroma Province called Avxenty Seryakov (1824). Studied engraving at the Imperial Academy of Arts...
Draughtsman, lithographer. Born in Reval in Estonia in the family of a teacher at the Russian District School called Ivan Razumikhin (1812). Contributed to André Prévost’s Picturesque Karamzin, or Ru...
Engraver, painter, draughtsman, illustrator. Born in St Petersburg in the family of a master of the St Petersburg Mint called Yakov Afanasiev (1793). Educated at the Imperial Academy of Arts after th...
Engraver, illustrator, painter. Born in St Petersburg in the family of an impoverished Pole called Pawel Friederici (1803). Studied under Nikolai Utkin at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1815–18, expel...
Lithographer, draughtsman, painter. Studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1855–61). Awarded a minor silver medal (1860) and the title of free artist of portrait painting (1861). Ran a lithographic...