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Painter, graphic artist, theatrical designer, film designer, decorator, teacher. Born in Moscow in the family of a cobbler called Ivan Shukhayev (1887). Studied under Ignaty Nivinsky, Stanislaw-Witol...
Graphic artist, painter, illustrator, theatrical designer, interior designer, architect, teacher. Born in Moscow to a furniture supplier called Ignaty Nivinsky (1880). Studied at the Stroganov Centra...
Painter, graphic artist, theatrical designer, illustrator, teacher. Born into the nobility at the estate of Osurovo near Pereslavl-Zalessky (1866). Graduated from the Faculty of Law of Moscow Univers...
Painter, graphic artist, theatrical designer, teacher. Studied under Dmitry Kardovsky (from 1907) at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1905–13), where he met Vasily Shukhayev, who became his lifelong fri...