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Sculptor, graphic artist, painter, teacher. Born in the family of an icon-painter called Andrian Shuklin in the village of Shuklinka in Kursk Province (1879). Studied under Sergei Volnukhin and Prince Paolo Troubetzkoy at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (1895–1901) and under Vladimir Beklemishev at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1905–10). Awarded the title of class artist...