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Painter, draughtsman, teacher. Son of academician of painting Mikhail Shamshin (1777–1846). Studied under Pyotr Basin at the Imperial Academy of Arts (from 1821). Awarded a second silver medal (1827)...
Painter, draughtsman, poet. Born in the family of a poor civil servant in Moscow (1815). Studied at the First Moscow Military Academy (1826–33) and served in the Finland Life Guards Regiment in St Pe...
Painter, draughtsman, teacher. Illegitimate son of the provincial procurator Baron Grigory von Krüdener. Given the surname Perov from the Russian word for quill ( pero ) on account of his beautiful h...