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Vasily Surikov
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03 March 2026
Viktor Mikhaylovich Vasnetsov (Father: Mikhail Vasilievich Vasnetsov, a village priest; Brother: Apollinary Vasnetsov, also a renowned painter)
Viktor...
04 August 2021
Илья Ефимович Репин | Ilya Yefimovich Repin (Father: Yefim Vasilyevich Repin; Mother: Tatyana Bocharova; Spouse: Vera Shevtsova, later Natalia Nordman)
Ilya...
16 April 2026
Петер Карл Фаберже (Russian) Real name and family : Karl Gustavovich Fabergé (Father: Gustav Fabergé, a jeweler; Mother: Charlotte Jungstedt; Spouse: Augusta...
10 March 2026
Михаил Врубель | Mikhail Aleksandrovich Vrubel (Father: Alexander Mikhailovich Vrubel, a military lawyer; Mother: Anna Grigoryevna Basargina; Spouse: Nadezhda...
10 March 2026
Исаак Ильич Левитан (Russian) Isaac Ilyich Levitan (Father: Ilya Abramovich Levitan; Mother: Basya Girshovna Levitan; Brother: Avel Levitan, also an artist)
Isaac...
31 July 2021
Kramskoi came from an impoverished petit-bourgeois family. From 1857 to 1863 he studied at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts; he reacted against academic...
03 January 2022
Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky (Russian: Иван Константинович Айвазовский; 29 July 1817 – 2 May 1900) was a Russian Romantic painter who is considered...
10 March 2026
Exact birth name unknown (“Andrei” is his monastic name; his surname suggests a familial connection to craft or trade, but his specific family...
10 March 2026
Владимир Евграфович Татлин (Russian) / Володимир Євграфович Татлін (Ukrainian) | Vladimir Yevgrafovich Tatlin (Father: Yevgraf Nikoforovich Tatlin, a railway...
13 April 2026
Константин Егорович Маковский | Konstantin Yegorovich Makovsky (Father: Yegor Ivanovich Makovsky, a founder of the Moscow School of Painting; Brothers:...
10 March 2026
Валентин Александрович Серов (Russian) Valentin Alexandrovich Serov (Father: Alexander Serov, a composer and music critic; Mother: Valentina Serova, a...
10 March 2026
Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli (Italian) / Варфоломей Варфоломеевич Растрелли (Russian) |Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli (Father: Carlo Bartolomeo Rastrelli,...
21 April 2026
Eurasia & The Steppes: Masters of Gold and Orthodoxy
This cultural zone represents a fascinating duality: the fiercely independent, mobile nomadic...
31 July 2021
Shishkin was born in Yelabuga of Vyatka Governorate (today Republic of Tatarstan) and graduated from the Kazan gymnasium. Then he studied at the Moscow...
26 February 2026
Ivan Yakovlevich Bilibin (Parents: Yakov Ivanovich Bilibin, a naval physician, and Varvara Alexandrovna; Spouses: Maria Chambers, Renée O’Connell,...
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Eurasia & The Steppes: Masters of Gold and Orthodoxy This cultural zone represents a fascinating duality: the fiercely independent, mobile nomadic empires that roamed the vast grasslands, and the settled, highly spiritual civilization of …
Василий Иванович Суриков | Vasily Ivanovich Surikov (Father: Ivan Surikov; Mother: Paraskeva Torgashina; Spouse: Elizabeth Charais; Daughter: Olga, who married painter Pyotr Konchalovsky) (1848–1916) is widely regarded as Russia’s greatest master of large-scale historical …
Наталия Сергеевна Гончарова | Natalia Sergeyevna Goncharova (Lifelong partner and eventual husband: Mikhail Larionov. She was the great-niece of Natalia Pushkina, wife of the poet Alexander Pushkin.) (1881–1962) was a leading figure of the …
Вера Игнатьевна Мухина | Vera Ignatyevna Mukhina (Spouse: Aleksey Zamkov, a prominent surgeon; Son: Vsevolod) (1889–1953) was the most prominent female sculptor of the Soviet Union, world-renowned for her monumental works that came to …
Петер Карл Фаберже (Russian) Real name and family : Karl Gustavovich Fabergé (Father: Gustav Fabergé, a jeweler; Mother: Charlotte Jungstedt; Spouse: Augusta Julia Jacobs; four sons, all of whom became jewelers) Peter Carl Fabergé …
Константин Егорович Маковский | Konstantin Yegorovich Makovsky (Father: Yegor Ivanovich Makovsky, a founder of the Moscow School of Painting; Brothers: Vladimir and Nikolay, also famous painters; Sister: Alexandra, a landscape painter) (1839–1915) was one …
Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli (Italian) / Варфоломей Варфоломеевич Растрелли (Russian) |Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli (Father: Carlo Bartolomeo Rastrelli, a prominent sculptor and architect; Spouse: Baroness Maria Anna von Walles; Children: Elisabetta Caterina, Giuseppe Iacopo, Eleonora) Francesco …
Владимир Евграфович Татлин (Russian) / Володимир Євграфович Татлін (Ukrainian) | Vladimir Yevgrafovich Tatlin (Father: Yevgraf Nikoforovich Tatlin, a railway engineer; Mother: Nadezhda Nikolaevna Bart, a poet) Vladimir Yevgrafovich Tatlin (1885–1953) was a central figure …
Михаил Врубель | Mikhail Aleksandrovich Vrubel (Father: Alexander Mikhailovich Vrubel, a military lawyer; Mother: Anna Grigoryevna Basargina; Spouse: Nadezhda Zabela-Vrubel, a prominent opera singer) Mikhail Vrubel (1856–1910) was a visionary Russian painter, draftsman, and …
Exact birth name unknown (“Andrei” is his monastic name; his surname suggests a familial connection to craft or trade, but his specific family origin remains unrecorded). Andrei Rublev (c. 1360–1430) is universally recognized as …
Валентин Александрович Серов (Russian) Valentin Alexandrovich Serov (Father: Alexander Serov, a composer and music critic; Mother: Valentina Serova, a composer; Spouse: Olga Trubnikova) Valentin Alexandrovich Serov (1865–1911) was one of the premier portrait artists …
Исаак Ильич Левитан (Russian) Isaac Ilyich Levitan (Father: Ilya Abramovich Levitan; Mother: Basya Girshovna Levitan; Brother: Avel Levitan, also an artist) Isaac Ilyich Levitan (1860–1900) was a classical Russian landscape painter who advanced the …
Viktor Mikhaylovich Vasnetsov (Father: Mikhail Vasilievich Vasnetsov, a village priest; Brother: Apollinary Vasnetsov, also a renowned painter) Viktor Mikhaylovich Vasnetsov (1848–1926) was a pioneering Russian artist who played a crucial role in the evolution …
Ivan Yakovlevich Bilibin (Parents: Yakov Ivanovich Bilibin, a naval physician, and Varvara Alexandrovna; Spouses: Maria Chambers, Renée O’Connell, Alexandra Shchekatikhina-Pototskaya) Ivan Yakovlevich Bilibin (1876–1942) was a highly influential Russian illustrator and stage designer who …
Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky (Russian: Иван Константинович Айвазовский; 29 July 1817 – 2 May 1900) was a Russian Romantic painter who is considered one of the greatest masters of marine art. Baptized as Hovhannes Aivazian,[a] he was born into an Armenian family in the Black Sea port …
