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  • Marina Spivak

    Sculptress, graphic artist. Born in the family of Lev Spivak in Leningrad (1955). Studied at the Vladimir Serov School of Art in Leningrad (1973–77). Member of the Union of Artists (1985) and the Oze...

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  • Engels Kozlov

    Painter, graphic artist. Born in the family of Vasily Kozlov in the village of Troitsko-Pechersk on the River Pechora in the south-east of the Komi-Zyryan Autonomous Region (1926). Studied at the Yar...

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  • Lev Igorev

    Painter, draughtsman, teacher, writer. Born in the family of Stefan Igorev, a rural sexton of the Church of St John the Baptist, in the village of Komarovka in Saratov Province (1822). Studied at the...

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  • Nikolai Bodarevsky

    Painter, graphic artist, decorator. Elder brother of artist Ekaterina Bodarevskaya (1852–1939), distant relative of Wassily Kandinsky. Descended from an old family of Moldavian rulers called Cegodar-...

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  • Alexander Dorogov

    Painter, graphic artist. Born in the family of Matvei Dorogov (1819). Studied at the Mining Institute in St Petersburg (late 1830s) and under Maxim Vorobyov at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1841–47)....

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  • Vasily Ekgorst (Eckhorst)

    Painter, graphic artist, teacher. Born in the family of Yefim Ekgorst (Eckhorst) in St Petersburg (1831). Studied under Bogdan Gottfried Willewalde at the Imperial Academy of Arts (mid-1850s–1860). A...

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  • Eugène Pluchart

    Franco-German painter, graphic artist, photographer. Born in St Petersburg (1809) in the family of French printer Alexandre Pluchart (1777–1827) and his German wife Sophie Wagner (1782–1857). Studied...

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  • Varvara Raevskaya-Rutkovskaya

    Painter, graphic artist, theatrical designer. Born in the family of Arkady Raevsky in St Petersburg (1895). Studied under Vasily Belyaev, Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin and Nikolai Radlov at the Imperial Academ...

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  • Johann Georg Mayr (de Mayr, von Mayr, Mayer, Meyer)

    German painter, draughtsman, engraver, illustrator, teacher. Elder brother of draughtsman and engraver Johann Christoph Mayr (1764–1812). Born in the family of a parson called Johann Michael Mayr in ...

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  • Ilya Glazunov

    Painter, graphic artist, restorer, theatrical designer, teacher, writer on art and history. Born in the family of historian Sergei Glazunov and his wife Olga Flug in Leningrad (1930). Studied under B...

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