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Self-taught sculptor. Born in the family of a serf called Pamfil Seryakov in the village of Kholopovo in Kostroma Province (1818). Moved with his family to St Petersburg, where his father traded at A...
Sculptor, painter, draughtsman, teacher. Eldest son of Russian Neoclassical sculptor Stepan Pimenov (1784–1833). Born in St Petersburg (1812). Studied under Stepan Pimenov and Samuel-Friedrich Halber...
Sculptor. Born in the family of a priest called Vasily Loganovsky in Moscow (1810 or 1812). Studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1821–33). Awarded a major gold medal (1836). Fellow of the Imperia...
Sculptor. Born in the family of a stonemason called Afanasy Chizhov in the village of Pudovo in Moscow Province (1838). Studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (1857–59)....
Sculptor, painter, draughtsman, teacher. Studied sculpture under Baron Peter Clodt von Jürgensburg at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1850–57). Awarded a major gold medal and the title of first-class a...
Sculptor, teacher. Father of Baron Mikhail Petrovich Clodt von Jürgensburg, uncle of Baron Mikhail Konstantinovich Clodt von Jürgensburg, grandfather of Baron Nikolai Clodt von Jürgensburg. Born in S...