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Graphic artist, illustrator. Younger sister of Nicolai Remisoff (Re-Mi). Born in the family of actor Vladimir Vasilyev (1847–1908, stage name Remizov) and his wife Xenia in St Petersburg (1890). Infl...
Graphic artist, painter, theatrical designer, teacher. Born in the family of Ivan Bystrenin in the town of Bolkhov in Oryol Province (1872). Studied at the Nikolai Murashko School of Drawing in Kiev,...
Painter, graphic artist, illustrator, teacher. Born in the family of Fyodor Afanasiev in St Petersburg (1850). Extern student of the Imperial Academy of Arts (1872–80). Taught at the School of Drawin...
Graphic artist, teacher. Born in the family of Nikolai Gerardov in Odessa (1873). Studied at the Odessa School of Drawing (1888–93) and under Johann Wilhelm Mathe at the Imperial Academy of Arts. Awa...
Graphic artist, illustrator, silhouettist. Born in the family of a Baltic German nobleman called Vasily Helmersen (1873). Studied law at St Petersburg University. Served in the Imperial Ministry of t...
Graphic artist, painter, illustrator. Born in the family of Sergei Solomko in St Petersburg (1867). Extern student of the Imperial Academy of Arts (from 1887). Collaborated with the Niva magazine (fr...