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Soviet Artists
This is a list of Russian artists. In this context, the term "Russian" covers the Russian Federation, Soviet Union, Russian Empire, Tsardom of Russia and Grand Duchy of Moscow, including ethnic Russians and people of other ethnicities living in Russia. This list also includes those who were born in Russia but later emigrated, and those who were born elsewhere but immigrated to the country and/or worked there for a significant period of time. Alphabetical list __NOTOC__ A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U V W Y Z See also * Russian Academy of Arts * List of 19th-century Russian painters * List of 20th-century Russian painters * List of Russian landscape painters * List of painters of Saint Petersburg Union of Artists * :Russian artists * List of Russian architects * List of Russian inventors * List of Russian explorers * List of Russian language writers * Russian culture {{Asian artists Lists of Rus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russian Federation
Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia. It is the list of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the world, and extends across Time in Russia, eleven time zones, sharing Borders of Russia, land borders with fourteen countries. Russia is the List of European countries by population, most populous country in Europe and the List of countries and dependencies by population, ninth-most populous country in the world. It is a Urbanization by sovereign state, highly urbanised country, with sixteen of its urban areas having more than 1 million inhabitants. Moscow, the List of metropolitan areas in Europe, most populous metropolitan area in Europe, is the capital and List of cities and towns in Russia by population, largest city of Russia, while Saint Petersburg is its second-largest city and Society and culture in Saint Petersburg, cultural centre. Human settlement on the territory of modern Russia dates back to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikolay Anokhin
Nikolay Yuryevich Anokhin (), is a contemporary Russian artist from Moscow, born in 1966. He graduated from the Moscow Art School, and then from Surikov Moscow Art Institute. From 1988 to 1992 he took art courses from Members of the Russian Academy of Arts painter Painting is a Visual arts, visual art, which is characterized by the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called "matrix" or "Support (art), support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with ...s Aleksei Gritsai and Sergei Tkachev. Anokhin's works have been displayed at a number of exhibitions both in Russia and abroad. His younger brother Vladimir is also a classically trained painter. Anokhin's style represents the evolution of the classic traditions of Russian painting, including elements of academic and traditional painting. Selected works File:Derevnya 2006 by Nikolay Anokhin.jpg, Anokhin, ''The Village'' Image:Ottepel 1991 by Nikolay Anokhin.jp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catherine II By Alexey Antropov (18th C, Tver Gallery)
Katherine (), also spelled Catherine and other variations, is a feminine given name. The name and its variants are popular in countries where large Christian populations exist, because of its associations with one of the earliest Christian saints, Catherine of Alexandria. In the early Christian era it came to be associated with the Greek adjective (), meaning 'pure'. This influenced the name's English spelling, giving rise to variants ''Katharine'' and ''Catharine''. The spelling with a middle 'a' was more common in the past. ''Katherine'', with a middle 'e', was first recorded in England in 1196 after being brought back from the Crusades. Popularity and variations Anglophone use In Britain and America, ''Catherine'' and its variants have been among the 100 most popular names since 1880. Amongst the most common variants are ''Katherine'' and ''Kathryn''. The spelling ''Catherine'' is common in both English and French. Less-common variants in English include ''Katharine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aleksey Antropov
Aleksey Petrovich Antropov (; – ) was a Russian painter active primarily in St. Petersburg, where he was born and died. He also worked in Moscow and frescoed churches in Kiev. His preferred medium was oil, but he also painted miniatures and icons. Life and work Alexei was born to the family of a government official who worked in the Armory and in the "Канцелярия от строений" (Chancellory of Buildings). Beginning in 1732, Alexei worked at the Chancellory under his relative Andrey Matveyev. After 1739 he was a member of the "painting team" of the Chancellory under Ivan Vishnyakov. As a member of the team Alexei took part in the frescoing of the Summer Palace, Winter Palace, Anichkov Palace and other buildings of Saint Petersburg. He also studied portrait art from the court painter Louis Caravaque of France. In 1749 Alexei received the rank of the Painter's Apprentice and at the end of the 1750s the rank of the Master Painter. In 1752-1755, he worked ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antropov Self
Antropov is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Aleksey Antropov Aleksey Petrovich Antropov (; – ) was a Russian painter active primarily in St. Petersburg, where he was born and died. He also worked in Moscow and frescoed churches in Kiev. His preferred medium was oil, but he also painted miniatures an ... (1716–1795), Russian painter * Alexander Antropov (born 1990), Russian ice hockey player * Andrey Antropov (born 1967), Russian badminton player * Egor Antropov (born 1992), Russian ice hockey defenceman * Ilya Antropov (born 1997), Russian football player * Nik Antropov (born 1980), Kazakh-Canadian ice hockey centre * Robert Antropov (born 1965), Estonian politician See also * Oļegs Antropovs (born 1947), Latvian volleyball player {{Surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ilya Repin
Ilya Yefimovich Repin ( – 29 September 1930) was a Russian painter, born in what is today Ukraine. He became one of the most renowned artists in Russian Empire, Russia in the 19th century. His major works include ''Barge Haulers on the Volga'' (1873), ''Religious Procession in Kursk Province'' (1880–1883), ''Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan'' (1885); and ''Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks'' (1880–1891). He is also known for the revealing portraits he made of the leading Russian literary and artistic figures of his time, including Mikhail Glinka, Modest Mussorgsky, Pavel Tretyakov, and especially Leo Tolstoy, with whom he had a long friendship. Repin was born in Chuguev, Russian Empire (now in Ukraine). Repin was of the Zaporozhian Cossacks, Zaporozhian Cossack descent on his paternal grandfather's side. His father had served in an Uhlan#Russian Uhlans, Uhlan Regiment in the Russian army, and then sold horses. Repin began painting icons at age sixteen. He failed at his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Antokolski
Mark Matveyevich Antokolsky (; 2 November 18409 July 1902) was a Russian sculptor of Lithuanian Jews, Lithuanian–Jewish descent. Biography Early life Mordukh Matysovich Antokolsky was born in Vilnius (Antokol city district), Lithuania (at the time part of the Russian Empire). He was born into a Jews, Jewish family of eight children. He studied in the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, Imperial Academy of Arts (1862–68) at St. Petersburg. He first began with Jewish themes, statues: "Jewish Tailor", "Nathan the Wise", "Inquisition's Attack against Jews", "The Talmudic Debate". Later life and career From 1868–1870, Mark Antokolsky lived in Berlin. His statue of :Image:MAntokolski IvanIV.JPG, Ivan the Terrible (1870) was purchased for the Hermitage Museum, Hermitage by Emperor Alexander II of Russia. The latter approved his work and awarded the sculptor the title of Academic. Antokolsky believed that sculpture was a social and humane ideal. In order to improve his failing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antokolski By Repin 1914
Antokolsky (spelling variations: Antokolskiy, Antokolski) (), feminine: Antokolskaya is a Russian surname. It derives from the Polish form Antokol of the Lithuanian toponym Antakalnis, now an eldership of Vilnius, Lithuania. The notable bearers of this surname were: *Mark Antokolski Mark Matveyevich Antokolsky (; 2 November 18409 July 1902) was a Russian sculptor of Lithuanian Jews, Lithuanian–Jewish descent. Biography Early life Mordukh Matysovich Antokolsky was born in Vilnius (Antokol city district), Lithuania (at t ... (1843–1902), Russian sculptor * Pavel Antokolsky (1896–1978), Russian poet {{Surname Polish toponymic surnames Surnames of Jewish origin Russian-language surnames Jewish toponymic surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evgenia Antipova
Evgenia Petrovna Antipova (; 19 October 1917 – 27 January 2009) was a Russian painter, graphic artist, and art teacher. She was known for her genre compositions, portraits, landscapes, and still life paintings, which she created using oils and watercolours. Among her favourite themes were apple orchards and Crimean landscapes. Antipova lived and worked in Saint Petersburg, known as Leningrad during the Soviet period, and is regarded as one of the main representatives of the Leningrad School of Painting. From 1953, she was a member of the Leningrad Union of Soviet Artists, now called the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists. Biography Evgenia Petrovna Antipova was born on 19 October 1917 in Toropets, a small town located about halfway between Moscow and Saint Petersburg. Her father was an office worker for a railway company. Antipova lived with her parents in Samara on the Volga River until 1928. While living there, she began working in an artistic studio under the direct ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
