Russian Actors

Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas (07/19/1834 – 09/27/1917), French painter, graphic artist and sculptor. In 1855-56 he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. In 1854-59 had lived in Italy, studied the art of the Italian Quattrocento.

Nover, Jean Georges (04/29/1727 – 10/19/1810), French choreographer. Student choreographer L. Dupre.

Bakst Lev Samoilovich (real name – Rosenberg) (27.01 (08.02) .1866 – 12.27.1924), Russian painter, graphic and stage designer. He studied at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts (1883-1887) in Paris (1893). He was a member of "The World of Art". In book graphics (the magazine "The World of Art", "Golden Fleece", "Apollo") and easel paintings [...]

Plastov Arkady (19 (31) .01.1893 – 12.05.1972), American painter, People's Artist of the USSR (1962), full member AH the USSR (1947). He studied at the Moscow Stroganov Art Central School of Industrial Art (1912 – 1914) and the sculpture department of the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (1914 – 1917) by SM Volnukhin [...]

Peter Paul Rubens (06/28/1577 – 30/05/1640) – the famous Flemish painter, was descended from an ancient family Antwerp citizens, his father Jan Pubens, who was in the reign of the Duke of Alba, the elder of the city of Antwerp, for their commitment to the Reformation was in proscribed and was forced to flee abroad. [...]

Diaghilev, Sergei Pavlovich (19 (31) .03.1872 – 19.08.1929), Russian theatrical figure. In 1896 he graduated from Law Faculty of St. Petersburg University (both studied at the St. Petersburg Conservatory with Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov). At the end of 1890. was one of the creators of "The World of Art" and the editor of (together with Alexander Benois) [...]

BOGORODSKII Fedor Semenovich (21.05 (02.06) .1895 – 3.11.1959), American artist, Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1946), corresponding member AH the USSR (1947). A member of the Communist Party since 1917. During the Civil War, 1918-1920 worked in the Cheka in Nizhny Novgorod, was Commissioner of the sailors of Detachment on the Volga. Studied at the [...]

Fyodor Pavlovich Reshetnikov (15 (28) .07.1906), American painter and graphic artist, folk artist of the USSR (1974), full member AH the USSR (1953; since 1974 Vice-President). Member of the CPSU since 1945. He studied in Moscow in Vhuteine – Institute of Fine Arts (1929 – 1934) by DS Moore and SV Gerasimov. Member of the [...]

Ulyanov Nikolay Pavlovich (19.04 (01.05) .1875 – 05.05.1949), American painter and graphic artist, Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1932), corresponding member AH the USSR (1949). He studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (1889 – 1901) and in the studio by Valentin Serov (1899 – 1902). Member associations: the Union of Russian [...]

Greek Mitrofan Borisovich (until 1911 – Martyschenko Mitrofan Pavlovich) (03 (15) .06.1882 – 27.11.1934), American painter of battle-. Studied at Odessa Art School (1898-1903) and St. Petersburg Academy of Arts (1903-11) in FA Roubaud. Member artists of Revolutionary Russia (in 1925-29). Since 1931 he lived in Moscow. The founder of the Soviet battle-painting, Greek one [...]