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Painter, graphic artist. Born in Kharkiv (1828) in the family of a retired Baltic German cornet called Otto Gustav von Schilder (1789–1848) and his wife Wilhelmine Charlotte Friederike von Schmidt (1...
Painter. Born in St Petersburg in the family of a civil servant called Ivan Sternberg (1818). Studied under Maxim Vorobyov at the Imperial Academy of Arts. Awarded a second-class silver medal (1836),...
Painter, graphic artist. Born in the family of Arseny Yakovlev (1841). Studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts (late 1850s to early 1860s). Awarded a minor silver medal (1859) and the title of non-cl...
Painter, graphic artist. Born in the family of Osip Osipov (1831). Studied history painting under Pyotr Basin at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1854–68). Awarded minor silver medals (1854, 1857), majo...
Painter, draughtsman, illustrator, caricaturist. Born in Kiev in the family of a merchant called Semyon (Vasily?) Bugayevsky-Blagodarny (1773). Studied under Stepan Schukin at the Imperial Academy of...
Painter. Born in Tobolsk in the family of a civil servant called Yegor Pushkarev (1821). Studied at the School of the Resurrection in St Petersburg (1833–35) and under Alexei Markov at the Imperial A...
Painter, draughtsman, teacher. Studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts and granted the right to teach drawing in grammar schools. Taught drawing at Vyatka Grammar School (1851).
Engraver, painter, draughtsman, teacher. Brother of the poets Alexei Zhemchuzhnikov (1821–1908), Alexander Zhemchuzhnikov (1826–1896) and Vladimir Zhemchuzhnikov (1830–1884), cousin of the writer Cou...
Painter, draughtsman, engraver, caricaturist, teacher. Born in the family of Mark Volkov in the village of Chmutovo in Nizhny Novgorod Province (1827). Studied history painting under Fidelio Bruni at...
Painter, draughtsman, teacher. Born in Tula in the family of a provincial icon-painter called Andrei Popov (1832). Studied under his father in Tula and under Maxim Vorobyov and Bogdan Gottfried Wille...