Russian Actors

Betskoi Ivan (02 (14) .02.1704 – 31.08 (11.09) .1795), the Russian public figure. Illegitimate son of Field Marshal I. Yu Trubetskoy. He studied in Copenhagen Cadet Corps. In 1740-ies. served in St. Petersburg in the College of Foreign Affairs, in 1747 and retired before 1762 had lived mostly abroad. In 1764-94 Betskoi president of the [...]

Kuindzhi Antropov (01/15/1841) – The famous Russian landscape painter, was born January 15, 1841, studied at Aivazovsky and within a short time at the Academy of Fine Arts, from which in 1878 was promoted to the artist a classroom degree. The first of his paintings: "Tatar village in the moonlight," "Types of Balaam and Lake [...]

Jean-Baptiste Greuze (08/21/1725 – 03/21/1805), French painter. Between 1745 and 1750 studied in Lyon at the Sh Grandon, then at the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture in Paris. In 1755-56 was in Italy. Genre scenes Greuze ("Rural Engagement", 1761, Louvre, Paris; "Paralytic, or fruits of good education", 1763, the Hermitage, Leningrad), praised the virtues [...]

Shatrov Nikolai Mikhailovich (1767 – 1841). The son of a captive Persian Shatrah.

Androsov Sergey O. (05/17/1948). Head of Sector at the Department of Western European art of the Hermitage, was born May 17, 1948 in Leningrad, graduated from the Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. Repin Academy of Arts of the USSR in 1971 Doctor of Fine Arts, corresponding member of RANS, since 1971 – spirant, curator [...]

Konstantin Arseniev (24.01 (05.02) .1837 – 3.22.1919). Russian liberal publicist, literary critic and public figure, an honorary academician Petersburg AN (1900). Seung K. Arseniev. Since 1866 worked in the Journal of Europe. " Since 1909 – Executive Editor of this journal. Since 1891 One of the main editors of Encyclopædia "FA Brockhaus and IA Efron, [...]

Bartolome Esteban Murillo (1617 – 3.4.1682) – the famous Spanish artist, head of the Seville school, born in late December 1617 in Seville, he studied at the Juan de Castillo, and initially worked in his dry, stiff manner, until the day before arrival in called the city P. de Moya, who underwent back style van [...]

M. Vasnetsov Apollinaris (25.07 (06.08) .1856 – 1.23.1933), Russian painter and graphic artist. He studied under his brother, Victor Vasnetsov, Polenov, Ilya Repin. Member of the Association of the Wanderers (from 1899), one of the organizers of the Union of Russian Artists "(1903). From 1900 – Academician of the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts. The [...]

Staehelin Peter Yakovlevich – translator, engraver and graphic artist, son of a famous academician allegories Staehelin. He lived in the reign of Empress Catherine II and was first secretary at the Russian embassy in Copenhagen, Dresden and the Hague, and then Counsellor, Embassy in Dresden.

Orlovsky, Alexander Osipovich (03.09.1777 – 01 (13) .03.1832), Polish and Russian painter and graphic artist, representative of romanticism. Experienced it influence YA.P. Norblin, who studied and worked in Warsaw (ca. 1793-1802). In the Polish period of creativity has performed a number of Distinguishing sometimes bluff of genre and comic sketches and paintings ("The scene at [...]