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German jeweller, goldsmith. Born in the Grand Duchy of Hesse (1812). Qualified as a goldsmith (1845) and opened a workshop on Gorokhovaya Street in St Petersburg (1849). Collaborated with Nicholls & ...
Painter, graphic artist, sculptor. Born in the family of Pavel Krasovsky (1840). Educated at the First Military Academy in St Petersburg (1850s). Independently studied drawing and sculpture while ser...
Painter, graphic artist. Born in the family of Arseny Yakovlev (1841). Studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts (late 1850s to early 1860s). Awarded a minor silver medal (1859) and the title of non-cl...
Painter, graphic artist. Born in the family of Osip Osipov (1831). Studied history painting under Pyotr Basin at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1854–68). Awarded minor silver medals (1854, 1857), majo...
Painter, draughtsman. Born in the family of Sophron Bogomolov-Romanovich (1830). Studied landscape painting under Maxim Vorobyov at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1853–57). Awarded a minor silver meda...
Painter, mosaicist. Younger brother of artist and archaeologist Fyodor Solntsev (1801–1892). Born in the family of a former serf called Grigory Solntsev and his wife Elizaveta in the village of Verkh...
Amateur painter, teacher. Born in the family of Vasily Ustinov (1796). Graduated from the First Military Academy in St Petersburg and served in the Russian army (1820s). Director of a grammar school ...
Painter, graphic artist. Born in Nizhny Novgorod in the family of a self-taught artist and serf of Prince Nikolai Shakhovskoi called Stepan Mikhailov and his actress wife (1818). Awarded his freedom ...
Painter, draughtsman, lithographer. Born in the family of Vasily Tyranov in the town of Bezhetsk in Tver Province (1808). Attended district school in Bezhetsk and grammar school for one year in Tver ...
Draughtsman, lithographer. Born in Reval in Estonia in the family of a teacher at the Russian District School called Ivan Razumikhin (1812). Contributed to André Prévost’s Picturesque Karamzin, or Ru...