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Painter, graphic artist. Wife of Nikolai Andronov. Born in the family of a military doctor called Alexei Yegorshin in the town of Samara on the River Volga (1926). Graduated from high school with a g...
Painter, graphic artist, illustrator. Born in the family of Pyotr Sveshnikov in Moscow (1927). Studied at the Moscow Institute of Applied and Decorative Art (1945–46). Arrested and accused of anti-So...
Valentin Vorobyov was born in the family of Ilya Vorobyov in Bryansk in 1938. He attended art studios in the 1950s and studied painting under Berta Geller, a former student of Naum Gabo and Vasyl Yer...
Painter, graphic artist, poet, songwriter. Born in the family of Vladimir Bachurin in Leningrad (1934). Studied at the Ilya Repin Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in Leningrad (1954–...
Painter, graphic artist. Grandson of Mikhail Yakovlev. Born in the family of white-collar worker Igor Yakovlev in the town of Balakhna on the River Volga in Nizhny Novgorod Region (1934). Moved with ...
Painter, graphic artist. Born in the family of Georgy Birger in Moscow (1923). Studied at the 1905 School of Art (1940–41) and the Moscow Institute of Fine Arts (1941–42). Called up into the Red Army...
Sculptor. Born in the family of Josif Neizvestny in Sverdlovsk (1925). Volunteered to fight in the Second World War (1942), wounded in Austria at the very end of the war (1945). Believed killed and p...
Painter. Born in Moscow (1927) and showed an early interest in painting (mid-1940s). Studied under Mikhail Perutsky at Moscow Secondary School of Art (1943–46), Vasily Surikov School of Art (1946) an...