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Vladimir Vasilyevich Lebedev belongs to those artists through whom the historical tension of Russian modernism can be read with particular clarity. He was a painter and draughtsman, political poster artist, book designer, caricaturist and theatre artist. His significance does not…
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Konstantin Ivanovich Rudakov occupies a distinctive position within Russian-Soviet art of the twentieth century. He is not an artist of the loud, manifesto-driven Avant-Garde, but a master of line, watercolour culture, literary illustration and theatrical observation. His work st…
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Kazimir Malevich is one of the central figures of twentieth-century art history. His name stands not only for the Russian Avant-Garde, but for one of the most radical moments in modern art altogether: the detachment of the image from the representation of external reality. With S…
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Nikolai Nikanorovich Dubovskoy belongs to the important landscape painters of the later Peredvizhniki generation. His work stands for a form of Russian landscape painting in which nature appears not as a topographical view, but as a carrier of psychological and atmospheric states…
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Vladimir Yevgrafovich Tatlin is one of the decisive figures of the Russian Avant-Garde and, at the same time, one of the artists who fundamentally expanded the concept of the artwork. While Malevich leads painting into the non-objective plane, Tatlin relocates the problem of mode…
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Alexey Ignatievich Kirillov belongs to the generation of Soviet painters who worked after the Second World War within an established academic art system. His training at the Moscow State Art Institute named after V. I. Surikov and his closeness to literary and historical subjects…
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Iosif Mikhailovich Gurvich is one of those positions in Soviet art that are especially interesting for an informed audience because they complicate the official history of Socialist Realism. He was a painter, graphic artist, monumental artist and teacher, trained in the milieu of…
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Nikolai Alexandrovich Sergeev is a landscape painter of the late nineteenth century whose work represents a quieter, but art-historically revealing line within Russian painting. He does not stand at the centre of the revolutionary Avant-Garde, nor in the innermost circle of the m…
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Nikolay Pavlovich Akimov belongs to those artistic figures in whom the boundary between fine art, stage, direction and public culture is dissolved. He was not only a theatre director, but also a stage and costume designer, graphic artist, illustrator, poster designer, teacher and…
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Alexander Semyonovich Vedernikov is one of the distinctive representatives of twentieth-century grad art. His work encompasses painting, watercolour, lithography and decorative art; he was also an influential teacher and was active in wartime graphic culture. Vedernikov stan…
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Apollinary Mikhaylovich Vasnetsov is one of the most distinctive artistic personalities in Russian art around 1900. His work unites landscape, historical research, architectural reconstruction and national imagination. While his elder brother Viktor Vasnetsov is associated above…
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Grigory Izrailevich Tseitlin is a representative of the older generation of the Moscow School and an artist whose work preserves the dignity of portraiture, the quiet concentration of still life and the human dimension of Soviet realisms. He is not among the loudest names of the…
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Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin is one of the central figures of nineteenth-century Russian landscape painting. Few artists united scientifically precise observation, academic mastery and a national consciousness of landscape as convincingly as he did. His forests, woodland paths, cleari…
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Julius Sergius von Klever, known in Russia as Yuly Yulyevich Klever, occupies a distinctive position within Russian landscape painting of the late nineteenth century. As an artist of Baltic German origin, he united the Petersburg academic tradition with a highly atmospheric, at t…
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Alexander Fyodorovich Gausch is a multifaceted artist of Russian art between the turn of the century, Petersburg modernism and Soviet reorganisation. He was a painter, graphic artist, teacher, exhibitor, museum worker and at times also active in a theatrical context. His work con…
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Aleksandr Nikolayevich Benois is one of the central figures of Russian art around 1900. He was not only a painter and draughtsman, but also an art historian, critic, stage designer, museum professional and one of the most important intellectual forces behind Mir Iskusstva, the Wo…
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Nikolai Mikhailovich Fokin belongs to the generation of Russian landscape painters around 1900 whose work stands between academic training, realistic observation of nature and an increasingly lyrical conception of landscape. He is not one of the most loudly canonical names of Rus…
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Luigi Premazzi, known in Russia as Ludwig Osipovich Premazzi, is a key figure of imperial Russian watercolour art in the nineteenth century. Born in Milan and trained at the Brera Academy, he brought the Italian tradition of perspective, architectural clarity and veduta painting…
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Mstislav Valerianovich Dobuzhinsky is one of the major artistic figures of the Russian Silver Age. As a graphic artist, painter, stage designer, illustrator, teacher and later emigrant, he connects several central lines of early twentieth-century art: the refined visual culture o…
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Rostislav Nikolaevich Barto belongs to the generation of Soviet artists whose work stands between the artistic energy of the 1920s, the ideological narrowing of the 1930s and a later, often quieter form of individual image-making. He was a painter, graphic artist and an outstandi…
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Vasily Kirillovich Nechitailo is one of the notable representatives of Soviet painting in the middle and second half of the twentieth century. His work is closely connected with the major subjects of Socialist Realism: collective labour, rural community, the historical legitimati…
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Viktor Ivanovich Zarubin is an artist of transitions: born in Kharkiv, initially trained outside the narrower art world, shaped by Paris and Saint Petersburg, and active as painter, graphic artist and stage artist. His work connects the Ukrainian-Russian cultural landscape of the…
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Viktor Ivanovich Klimenko, or Viktor Ivanovych Klymenko, is an important special case among the first ten artists of the collection. He does not belong to Russian art in the narrow national sense, but to twentieth-century Ukrainian art, whose training, institutions and themes lon…
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Zinaida Markovna Sirvint-Sherman is one of those artists of Soviet modernism whose work long remained more visible in archives, theatre holdings and private collections than in the broader art-historical consciousness. Her significance lies less in classical easel painting than i…
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Aleksandr Karlovich Beggrov is one of the important Russian marine and city-view painters of the late nineteenth century. His biography connects two worlds that became decisive for his art: practical experience in the navy and artistic formation within the environment of Russian…
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Aleksandr Osipovich Orlovsky, also known internationally as Aleksander Orłowski, is a key figure at the intersection of Polish and Russian art around 1800. Born in Warsaw in 1777 and deceased in Saint Petersburg in 1832, he brought a Polish-inflected culture of drawing, Romantic…
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Aleksandr Elisejewitsch Woronkow is a source-critical entry within the list of I tesori della Russia. The name is not treated with the same certainty as the canonical artists in this block. In the source list he is explicitly recorded as an unattributed artist. For a public catal…
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Aleksandr Fjodorowitsch Belij is a representative of Russian and early Soviet painting whose work stands between academic landscape training, southern Russian origins and later Soviet subject matter. He is not one of the great canonical names, but as a professional painter and te…
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Aleksandr Nikolayevich Samokhvalov is among the most important artists of Soviet grad art in the twentieth century. His work connects the formal experiments of the post-revolutionary 1920s with the visual language of Soviet Realism and is therefore art-historically complex.…
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Aleksandr Vasilyevich Skalon was a Russian artist, art critic and public actor in artistic life whose career extends from the late Imperial period into the Soviet era. He is not among the internationally best-known names in Russian art today, but he is instructive for understandi…
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Aleksei Alexandrowitsch Lazjikin is a Russian painter of the generation that emerged from the major Soviet art institutes after the Second World War and sought new paths within figurative painting between academic training, modern form and urban-industrial subject matter. Born in…
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Aleksei Petrovich Bogolyubov was one of the most important Russian landscape and marine painters of the nineteenth century. His work combines the experience of a naval officer with academic training, European travel painting, realistic study of nature and an exceptional public ro…
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Alfons Konstantinovich Dzhaba is a versatile Russian-Soviet painter and graphic artist whose work encompasses several areas of academically shaped pictorial culture: genre, landscape, historical representation, battle painting and book art. Born in Tiflis in 1878, he belongs to t…
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Andrei Afanasyevich Egorov is a distinctive figure in Russian-Estonian art history. Born in 1878 near Reval, today's Tallinn, he stands between the art centres of Saint Petersburg and Estonia. His education took him to Saint Petersburg, where he first attended the drawing school…
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Andrei Andreyevich Popov belongs to the generation of Russian genre painters who, in the middle of the nineteenth century, helped establish everyday life as an independent subject of painting. Art historically, he stands between academic training, narrative realism and the growin…
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Anna Petrovna Ostroumova-Lebedeva ranks among the most important women printmakers of Russian modernism and among the decisive renewers of woodcut in Russia. Born in Saint Petersburg in 1871, she received her training first at the Stieglitz School and then at the Imperial Academy…
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Anton Ivanovich Ivanov-Goluboy is a moving and art-historically distinctive figure in nineteenth-century Russian painting. He was born in 1818 in the village of Kozakovo in the former Vladimir Governorate as a serf. His path into art did not begin with privileged origins, but wit…
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Arkadij Aleksandrowitsch Rylow belongs to the major Russian landscape painters at the threshold between the Silver Age and the early Soviet period. His work combines the school of Arkhip Kuindzhi, a Symbolist understanding of nature and a powerful, almost emblematic landscape lan…
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Arthur Yanovich Baumanis is an artist of the Baltic-Russian borderlands whose profile is treated with particular source-critical care. The person listed in the collection is not confused with the older Latvian history painter Arturs Baumanis (1867-1904). According to the availabl…
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Boris Ivanovich Tsvetkov belongs to the generation of Russian artists whose work developed between the end of imperial art education and the formation of a new Soviet visual culture. Sources give slightly varying life dates - most often 1893/1895 to 1942/1943 - but his art-histor…
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Christoph von Reutern is a fragile but culturally revealing position within a collection of Russian-European art. He came from the German-Baltic Reutern family, which in the nineteenth century was closely connected with Russian, German and artistic-literary networks. His father,…
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The entry “E. Kononovich-Gorbatskaya” is treated with special caution in a professional art catalogue. On the present source base, no clearly documented artist-person with this name can be securely identified. The source file gives the name in the form “Кононович-Горбацкая Е.” an…
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Elizaveta Merkuryevna Bem, internationally often known as Elisabeth Böhm or Boehm, is an outstanding representative of Russian graphic art and illustration in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Her work belongs to a field that is sometimes underestimated in grand…
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Elij Michailowitsch Beljutin is one of the central figures of unofficial Soviet art after Stalin. He was a painter, art theorist, teacher, founder of the group and school New Reality, and a key figure within an artistic movement that challenged the narrow prescriptions of Sociali…
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Manuil Khristoforovich Aladzhalov was an Armenian-Russian landscape painter and graphic artist whose work belongs to the tradition of the Moscow landscape school. Born in 1862 in Nakhichevan-on-Don near Rostov, he received his initial artistic training in Rostov and then at the M…
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Evgeny Alexandrovich Tikhmenev was a Russian painter and graphic artist known above all as an animal painter, hunting painter and interpreter of military-battle themes. Born in 1869 in Sumy into an old noble family, his visual world was shaped by a milieu in which hunting, the mi…
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Fjodor Petrowitsch Reznitschenko belongs to the broad, often art-historically underlit group of academically trained landscape painters of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He is not a canonical name like Levitan or Shishkin, yet precisely such artists are intere…
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Georgy Nikolaevich Sverchkov was a painter and graphic artist belonging to a distinctive line within Russian art: the highly developed representation of horses, hunting and animals. He was born in 1872 in Tsarskoye Selo near Saint Petersburg and died in Paris in 1957. His artisti…
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Georgij Semionowitsch Wereiskij is an outstanding figure of Russian and Soviet graphic art. His work represents a culture of line, observation and concentrated portraiture that formed a quiet but highly refined counterposition to the large painterly and ideological gestures of th…
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Grigory Mikhailovich Bobrovsky was a Russian-Soviet painter and teacher whose work connects the transitions between late academic Realism, the artists' association landscape around 1900 and Soviet art institutions. Born in 1873 in Vitebsk, he first received a seminary education b…
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Within I tesori della Russia, Gustav Alfred Müller belongs to those artists whose relevance derives less from a canonical position in Russian art history than from the wider European field in which Russian, German and Central European collection histories of the nineteenth and tw…
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The entry “I. Nowikow” is handled source-critically in a professional art catalogue. The museum contexts named in the collection list - the Tretyakov Gallery, Russian Museum, Kunstmuseum Bern and Ludwig Museum Budapest - point with high probability to Igor Alexeyevich Novikov, a…
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Iosif Evstafievich Krachkovsky was a Russian landscape painter of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and an academician of the Imperial Academy of Arts. He was born in Warsaw in 1854 and died in Cadenabbia on Lake Como in 1914. His biography connects the Russian ac…
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Isaak Iljitsch Lewitan is one of the central figures of nineteenth-century Russian art and is widely regarded as one of the greatest masters of landscape painting. His name is inseparable from the concept of the mood landscape: a landscape in which nature is not merely depicted,…
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Israel Abramovich Pass, also recorded in variants as Pas or Isidor Alekseevich Pass, was a Russian painter and graphic artist active at the transition from the late nineteenth to the early twentieth century. The available source situation is considerably less prominent than for t…
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Ivan Andreyevich Lvov is a still only partially documented artist whose classification requires particular care. The source list identifies him with the life dates 1859-1933 and refers to repeated exhibitions as well as works in the State Tretyakov Gallery and other collections.…
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Ivan Andreevich Pelevin represents that multilayered Russian art of the late nineteenth century in which academic training, Realist genre painting and monumental ecclesiastical art existed side by side. He was a painter and mosaicist, an Academician of the Imperial Academy of Art…
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Jan Chrucki, known in Russian art history as Ivan Fomich Khrutsky, is one of the most important masters of still life in the Russian-Belarusian cultural sphere of the nineteenth century. His biography connects Polish-Belarusian origins, Russian academic training and a visual lang…
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Johan Karoly Reinprecht is one of the most source-critical entries in this block. Unlike the canonical Russian artists in the collection, no robust museum biography has been identified for him; the verifiable information comes largely from art-market and auction contexts. In thos…
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John Augustus Atkinson is a distinctive figure within a collection of Russian art because he was not a Russian artist in the strict national sense, but he was one of the most important Western image-makers of Russian subjects around 1800. The London-born painter, draughtsman, wat…
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Karl Eduardowitsch Geftler is an interesting marginal and bridging figure in Russian art of the late nineteenth century. He was an architect and watercolourist of Baltic-German origin who was rooted in the artistic life of the Russian Empire. His work connects architectural train…
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The name Khanovskij is attached in the collection to one public work. The artist has not yet been conclusively identified; the entry is therefore treated as an attribution-related catalogue position rather than as a fully secured biographical profile. Old Russian Landscape is doc…
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Khariton Platonovich Platonov belongs to the Russian genre painters of the late nineteenth century whose work translated everyday life, childhood, rural existence and social observation into an academically trained pictorial form. Born in 1842 into a peasant family in the Yarosla…
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Konstantin Aleksandrowitsch Trutowskij is one of the important Russian genre painters and graphic artists of the mid-nineteenth century. His work stands at a decisive transition: from academically shaped pictorial culture toward a stronger observation of folk life, social milieus…
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Konstantin Andreevich Somov is one of the major artists of Russian modern art around 1900 and one of the defining figures of Mir Iskusstva, the "World of Art" movement. Born in Saint Petersburg as the son of an art historian and museum professional, Somov grew up in an environmen…
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L. Hanikov is represented in the collection by the work Twilight. The artist’s identity is not yet fully secured; the entry is therefore presented as a cautious catalogue position centred on the documented object.
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Leonid Florianovich Zhodeiko belongs to the Russian portraitists of the era of the Great Reforms, a period in which Russian society changed profoundly after the middle of the nineteenth century. His work stands in a milieu in which academic portraiture, bourgeois representation a…
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Lev Feliksovich Lagorio belongs to the important representatives of Russian marine and landscape painting of the nineteenth century. His name is closely connected with Crimea, with Feodosia and with that distinctive school of maritime imagery which, in the Russian cultural sphere…
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Lew Dmitrievich Kryukov is an important, though outside Russia less widely known, figure in early Russian provincial painting. His work leads into a period in which artistic culture can no longer be located exclusively in Saint Petersburg and Moscow. Kryukov was a portraitist, mi…
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Longin Khristianovich Frikke, also written Login or Loggin Frikke, is a Russian nineteenth-century landscape painter whose work connects the academic landscape tradition with the pictorial exploration of regional spaces. He trained at the Imperial Academy of Arts, received major…
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The designation Maestro del XVIII Secolo refers to an unnamed eighteenth-century artist position rather than to a secured individual biography. The entry is therefore treated as a historical and attribution-related catalogue record.
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Marc Chagall is one of the most internationally significant artists of the twentieth century and at the same time a key figure for understanding Russian-Jewish modernism. Born in 1887 as Moishe Khatskelevich Shagal in Vitebsk, then part of the Russian Empire, he developed a picto…
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Michail Aleksandrowitsch Zitschi, internationally known above all as Mihály Zichy, is one of the most distinctive European artistic personalities in the service of the Russian Empire. Born in the then Kingdom of Hungary, he trained in Vienna and came to Saint Petersburg in 1847.…
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Nicola Dusi Gobbetti is a contemporary Italian artist, born in 1954, whose inclusion in a collection oriented toward Russian art must be carefully contextualised. The publicly accessible source base is limited and consists mainly of art-market records. These records refer to work…
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Nikolai Nikolajewitsch Sapunow is one of the most fascinating and at the same time most tragically brief figures in Russian art around 1900. His work stands at the intersection of Symbolism, theatre, decorative painting and the sensitive, nervous modernity associated with the Blu…
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Nikolai Pawlowitsch Christolubow belongs to the generation of Soviet artists whose education and professional life were shaped by war, evacuation, reconstruction and state-organized art institutions. Born in 1918, he received his artistic training first within the environment of…
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Osip Emmanuilovich Braz is one of the most nuanced artistic personalities of the Russian Silver Age. He was a painter, graphic artist, portraitist, collector, museum professional and teacher. In his work, the realist portrait tradition of the late nineteenth century, Impressionis…
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Piotr Dmitrievich Buchkin was a Russian-Soviet painter, graphic artist, illustrator and teacher whose career makes visible the continuity between the late Imperial Academy and twentieth-century grad art. His work includes portraits, historical and genre scenes, landscapes an…
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Pjotr Ivanovich Petrovichev belongs to the important Russian landscape painters of the transition from the late nineteenth to the early twentieth century. His work stands in the aftermath of the great lyrical landscape school associated with Isaak Levitan, yet develops that tradi…
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Pjotr Nikolajewitsch Gruzinskij belongs to the generation of nineteenth-century Russian artists who emerged from the academic school while also developing a growing interest in genre, everyday life, landscape and national-historical subjects. Born in Kursk, he studied at the Impe…
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Rudolf Rudolfovich Frentz is a central figure in Russian and Soviet battle painting of the twentieth century. He was born in 1888 in Marienburg in the Saint Petersburg governorate region and came from an artistic family: his father, Rudolf Ferdinandovich Frentz, was a known anima…
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Sergei Wasiljewitsch Gerasimow is one of the important artists of twentieth-century Soviet painting and also one of the figures who bridges the pre-revolutionary Moscow painting school and the institutional art of the Soviet Union. He was a painter, graphic artist, teacher, autho…
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Stepan Ivanovich Slobodniuk-Podoljanin is an important, though outside Ukraine and Russia little-known, figure of the regional art and museum landscape of the early twentieth century. He was a Ukrainian and Soviet painter, trained in the environment of the Odessa Art School and t…
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Under the name Wladimir Maslow or V. Masalov, the collection lists an artist whose exact identification is checked again at object level before final public publication. The reference in the source list to the Moscow Museum of Tradition / Museum of Art of the 20th-21st Centuries…
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Wasilij Aleksandrowitsch Zwerew represents the generation of Russian and Soviet painters whose work stands between pre-revolutionary academic training and the institutional demands of the early Soviet period. Born in the Vladimir region, he studied in Saint Petersburg / Petrograd…
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Vasily Vasilyevich Vereshchagin is among the internationally best-known Russian painters of the nineteenth century and is regarded as one of the most important war artists in European modernity before the twentieth century. Unlike many battle painters, he did not glorify war. He…
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Wiktor Andrejewitsch Simow belongs to those artists whose significance lies less in a conventional gallery oeuvre than in the fundamental renewal of Russian theatre. He was a painter, graphic artist and, above all, a stage designer. His name is closely connected with the Moscow A…
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Witold Kaetanowitsch Bjaluinitskij-Birulja belongs to the important landscape painters of the Belarusian-Russian cultural sphere in the first half of the twentieth century. His work stands in a direct line with the great Russian landscape tradition of the late nineteenth century,…
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The entry for Wladimir Aleksandrowitsch Plotnikow is one of the more problematic, but potentially very interesting, positions in the collection. The source list gives the life dates 1873-1947 and marks the person as not clearly identifiable. These dates, however, also correspond…
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Vladimir Gavrilovich Kazantsev was one of the early professional artists from Yekaterinburg and an important figure in the Ural landscape painting of the late nineteenth century. He came from a prosperous merchant and gold-industrialist family, first studied law at Moscow Univers…
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Wladimir Ivanovich Beyer belongs to those artistic figures whose importance lies less in a canonised body of easel painting than in the connection of art, stage and pedagogy. He was an art historian, teacher, graphic artist and theatre artist, and therefore part of the broad, oft…
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Vladimir Vasilyevich Galaktionov is listed within I tesori della Russia as a weakly documented artist. The currently identifiable references give the life dates 1827-1897 and place him in the Russian art milieu of the nineteenth century, but the biographical and museum source bas…
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Vladimir Yegorovich Makovsky is one of the major representatives of Russian Realism and one of the defining painters of the Peredvizhniki, the Association of Travelling Art Exhibitions. Born in Moscow into a highly cultivated artistic family, he grew up in an environment in which…
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Vyacheslav Pavlovich Bychkov is a Russian-Soviet painter and graphic artist whose work is situated between late Realism, the Moscow school of painting and early Soviet art. He is not among the most widely canonised names of Russian art, but he is significant for a differentiated…
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Vladimir Nikolaevich Pchelin is an artist of transition. His biography and his work lead from the realistic genre painting of the late imperial period into the historical-revolutionary visual culture of the early Soviet era. This makes him especially interesting for a collection…
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Jewgenij Jewgenjewitsch Lansere is one of the most multilayered figures of Russian art between the Silver Age and the Soviet period. As a painter, graphic artist, book artist, stage designer and muralist, he combined historical imagination, decorative culture, precise drawing and…
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Zakhary Alekseevich Rokachevsky is a source-historically interesting figure at the intersection of art, science and regional educational history. Unlike the canonical names of Russian modernism, he is not an artist whose work has been firmly anchored in public consciousness throu…
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