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Ivan Aivazovsky (1817-1900)
Seascape and landscape painter, portraitist
• Storm, 1886
Fedor Alekseev (1753-1824)
Cityscape and landscape painter
• Red Square in Moscow, 1801
Nathan Altman (1889-1970)
Painter, sculptor
• Portrait of Anna Akhmatova, 1914
Mikhail Anikushin (1917-1997)
Monument sculptor
• Monument to the Heroic Defenders of Leningrad, Saint Petersburg
Nikolay Anokhin (1966-)
Still life and landscape painter
• In the old house of Rakitins, 1998
Mark Antokolski (1843-1902)
Sculptor
• Ivan the Terrible, 1871
Alexei Antropov (1716-95)
Painter, portraitist
• Catherine II (1764)
Ivan Argunov (1729-1802)
Painter, portraitist
• Kalmyk girl Annushka, 1767
Alexander
Archipenko (1887-1964)
Cubist sculptor
• Walking Woman, 1912
Abram
Arkhipov (1862-1930)
Genre painter
• Visiting, 1915
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Vasily Baksheyev (1862-1958)
Landscape artist
• Blue Spring, 1930
Leon
Bakst (1866-1924)
Set/costume designer for Diaghilev's Ballets
Russes; portraitist, history painter
• Portrait of Zinaida Hippius, 1906
Maria Bashkirtseva (1858-84)
Painter
• The Studio, 1881
Alexander
Benois (1870-1960)
Historical landscape artist
• Versailles: by the Statue of Curtius, 1896
Ivan Bilibin (1876-1942)
Painter, illustrator, stage designer
• Set for the The Golden Cockerel, 1909
Nikolai Bogdanov-Belsky (1868-1945)
Realist painter
• Reading a Letter, 1892
Alexey Bogoliubov (1824-1896)
Landscape artist
• Volga Banks, 1864
Kseniya Boguslavskaya (1892-1972)
Russian Futurist, Suprematist painter, interior decorator.
• Portrait of a Lady in Pink, the Artists Sister (1911) State
Russian Museum.
Victor Borisov-Musatov (1870-1905)
Symbolist painter
• Daphnis and Chloe, 1901
Vladimir Borovikovsky (1757-1825)
Painter, portraitist
• Catherine II in Tsarskoe Selo, 1794
Alexander Briullov (1798-1877)
Neoclassical architect and painter, portraitist
• Portrait of Natalia Pushkina, 1831
Karl Briullov (1799-1852)
Neoclassical painter
• The Last Day of Pompeii, 1830-33
Feodor Bruni (1799-1875)
Neoclassical painter
• Maenad Giving Drink to Amur, 1828
David
Burlyuk (1882-1967)
Russian avant-garde painter, book illustrator, Father of Russian Futurism
Organized Knave of Diamonds group and Donkey's Tail Exhibition
group.
• Futurist Woman, 1911.
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Marc
Chagall (1887–1985)
Painter, illustrator, stained glass artist, ceramics and tapestry designer
(see also Jewish Art)
• The Fiddler, 1912
• View from the Window, 1914
Pavel Chistyakov (1832-1919)
Painter, arts teacher
• Sophia of Lithuania at the Wedding of Vasily the Blind,
1861
Peter Clodt (1805-1867)
Sculptor
• Nicholas I on Isaac's Square, Saint-Petersburg
Vasily Demut-Malinovsky (1779-1846)
Neoclassical sculptor
• The Chariot of Victory on the Triumphal Arch of General Staff Building,
Saint Petersburg
Alexander Deyneka (1899-1969)
Social realist painter, graphic artist, sculptor
• Ceiling mosaic at Mayakovskaya, Moscow metro
Sergei
Diaghilev (1872-1929)
Best known as the impresario of Les Ballets Russes, the ballet
company that took Paris by storm in 1909.
Dionysius
(Dionisius the Wise, Dionisii or Dionisy) (c.1440-1502)
Icon painter in the tradition of Byzantine art;
member of Novgorodian and Muscovite schools.
• Fresco murals (c.1480) in the Church of the Ferapontov Monastery
Nikolai Dubovskoi (1859-1918)
Landscape painter
• The Calm before the Storm, 1890
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Aleksandra Aleksandrovna Ekster
(1882-1949)
Russian-French painter (Cubo-Futurist, Suprematist) and designer.
• Costume design for Salome (1917) Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow.
Mikhail Evstafiev (1963-)
Avante-garde painter, writer, photographer
• The Sky Over the City Where We Were Happy, 2006
Peter Carl Fabergé (1846-1920)
Goldsmith, jeweller, decorative artist (see also Decorative
art)
• The Great Siberian Railway Easter Egg, 1913
For more details, see: Fabergé Easter
Eggs.
Vladimir Favorsky (1886-1964)
Graphic designer, woodcut illustrator, stage designer, painter
• Fyodor Dostoyevsky, woodcut, 1929
Konstantin Flavitsky (1830-66)
Neoclassical painter
• Children of Jacob sell their Brother Joseph, 1855
Pavel Fedotov (1815-52)
Realist painter
• Young Widow, 1851
Pavel Filonov (1883-1941)
Symbolist expressionist painter
• The Feast of Kings, 1913
Ivan Firsov (1733-85)
• Portrait of a Little Girl, c.1777
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Naum
Gabo (1890-1977)
Constructivist sculptor, involved in kinetic art
(brother of Antoine Pevsner)
• Fountain by St Thomas' Hospital, London
Prince Grigory Gagarin (1810-93)
Subject painter
• The Headquarters of Nizhegorodsky Dragoon Regiment (1841)
Nikolai Gay (1831-94)
History painter, realist, portraitist
• Leo Tolstoy, 1882
Nina Genke (Genke-Meller) (1893-1954)
Ukrainian-Russian Suprematist designer, graphic artist and scenographer.
• Suprematic Composition (1910) The Russian Museum, St Petersburg.
Mikhail Gerasimov (1907-70)
Archaeologist, anthropologist, forensic sculptor
• Reconstruction of Yaroslav I the Wise, 1938
Alexander Golovin (1863-1930)
Portraitist and set designer
• Portrait of Fyodor Chaliapin as Boris Godunov, 1912
Natalia
Goncharova (1881-1962)
Rayonist painter
• Rayonist Forest, 1914
Igor Grabar (1871-1960)
Draughtsman, landscape artist
• March Snow (1904)
Feofan Grek (aka Theophanes the
Greek) (1340-1410)
Medieval fresco and icon-painter - see Russian
Medieval Painting
• Transfiguration of Jesus, 1408
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Alexei Harlamoff (1840–1925)
Painter, portraitist
• Literary Pursuits of a Young Lady, 1870
Viktor Hartmann (1834–1873)
Painter, ornamentist, architect, Russian Revival style artist
• Naval Russia's pavilion at the 1973 World Fair, design
Alexander Ivanov (1806–1858)
Neoclassical painter
• The Appearance of Christ before the People, 1836—57
Sergei Ivanov (1864–1910)
History painter, realist, graphic artist, illustrator
• Monomachos' Princely Congress at Uvetichi
Anton Ivanov-Goluboy (1818–1863)
Neoclassical landscape painter
• Fishing Vessels off a Jetty, Kostroma, 1839
Valery Jacobi (1834–1902)
Neoclassical and realist painter
• Jesters at the Court of Empress Anna, 1872
Alexandre Jacovleff (1887–1938)
Neoclassical painter, draughtsman, designer, etcher
• Feodor Chaliapin as Don Quixote, 1916
Alexei
von Jawlensky (1864-1941)
Expressionist painter (see Expressionist
painters)
• Head of a Woman, 1911
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Ilya Kabakov (1933–)
Conceptual installation artist, painter, illustrator
• Wordless, on the German-Dutch border
Wassily
Kandinsky (1866–1944)
Expressionist (Der Blaue Reiter group)
and abstractionist painter
(see also Colour in Painting)
• Der Blaue Reiter, 1903
Nikolay Kasatkin (1859–1930)
Realist painter
• Miner girl, 1894
Ivan Khrutsky (1810–1885)
Still life and genre painter, portraitist
• Still life, 1839
Orest Kiprensky (1782–1836)
Romantic painter, portraitist
• Alexander Pushkin, 1827
Ivan Kliun (1873-1943)
Suprematist, Constructivist, painter, graphic artist and sculptor.
• Portrait of a Woman (1917) Lili Brochetain Collection.
Vyacheslav Klykov (1939–2006)
Monument sculptor
• A bell-tower in Prokhorovka, monument to the Battle of Kursk (1943)
Pyotr Konchalovsky (1876–1956)
Still life artist
• Still Life: Trunk (Heroic), 1919
Sergey Konenkov (1874–1971)
Sculptor
• The Poor, 1917
Pavel Korin (1892–1967)
History painter, portraitist, art restorer
• Artwork on Komsomolskaya station of Moscow metro, 1952
Konstantin Korovin (1861–1932)
Impressionist painter
• Two Ladies On a Terrace, 1911
Mikhail Kozlovsky (1753–1802)
Neoclassical sculptor
• Alexander Suvorov as Mars, Saint Petersburg, 1799—1801
Ivan
Kramskoy (1837–1887)
Painter, portraitist, genre-artist. One of the top Itinerant painters.
• Christ in the Wilderness, 1872
• Mocking Christ. "Hail, King of the Jews" 1877-82
• Portrait of an Unknown Woman, 1883
Nikolai Krymov (1884–1958)
Primitivist painter
• Windy Day, 1908
Arkhip Kuindzhi (1842–1910)
Landscape painter
• A Birch Grove, 1879
Alexander Kuprin (1880-1960)
Impressionist still life painter
• Still Life, Cactus and Fruits (1918, Private Collection).
Boris Kustodiev (1878–1927)
Painter, stage designer
• Bolshevik, 1920
Pavel Kuznetsov (1878-1968)
Folk painter
• Woman Sleeping in a Sheepfold, 1911
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Yevgeny Lanceray (1875–1946)
Historical landscape artist
• Empress Elizabeth Petrovna at Tsarskoe Selo, 1905
Mikhail
Larionov (1881–1964)
Avant-garde Rayonist painter (see Rayonism).
Larionov, together with his lifelong partner Natalia Goncharova (see above)
were important figures in the pre-World War I avant-garde in Russia, who
helped to organized several groups including the Knave
of Diamonds (1910-17) and the Donkey's
Tail (1911-12), as well as the Target Exhibition (1913).
• Red Rayonism, 1913
Klavdy Lebedev (1852–1916)
History painter
• Svyatoslav's Meeting with Emperor John, 1890
Aristarkh Lentulov (1882–1943)
Avant-garde painter
• Saint Basil's Cathedral, 1913
Isaac
Levitan (1860–1900)
Landscape painter
• Birch Forest, 1885-1889
• Secluded Monastery, 1890
• Vladimirka (The Road to Vladimir), 1892
Dmitry Levitsky (1735–1822)
Painter, portraitist, a master of Russian
painting in the 18th century.
• Portrait of Prokofiy Demidov, 1773
• Portrait of Ursula Mniszech, 1782
Jacques
Lipchitz (1891-1973)
Cubist sculptor
• The Couple (The Cry), 1928-9
El
Lissitzky (1890–1941)
Avant garde painter, photographer, typographer
• Beat Whites with the Red Wedge, 1919
Anton Losenko (1737–1773)
Neoclassical painter, portraitist
• Fyodor Volkov, 1763
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Konstantin Makovsky (1839–1915)
History painter, portraitist
• Proclamation of Kuzma Minin, 1896
Kasimir
Malevich (1878–1935)
Suprematist avante-garde painter (see Suprematism)
One of the greatest 20th century
painters from Russia.
• Black Square, 1915
Sergey Malyutin (1859–1937)
Painter, folk artist, architect, portraitist
• First Russian matryoshka doll, 1890
Savva
Mamontov (1841-1918)
Sculptor, musician, patron of the arts. Made his estate at Abramtsevo
available to artists like Repin, Serv and Vrubel.
Ivan Martos (1754–1835)
Neoclassical sculptor
• Alexander I, Taganrog, 1830
Andrey Martynov (1768-1826)
Painter, etcher, lithographer
• Views of Russia and Mongolia, 1805
Ilya Mashkov (1881–1944)
Subject and still life painter
• Artist's model, 1920
Andrey Matveev (1702-1739)
Portraitist, sponsored by Peter the Great during the era of Petrine
art.
• Portrait of the Princess A.P. Golitzina, 1728
Vasily Maximov (1844–1911)
Genre painter
• Arrival of the Sorcerer at a Peasant Wedding, 1875
Vladimir Mayakovsky (1878–1930)
Avante-garde designer, Futurist painter, playwright and propaganda artist
(see also Russian Futurism)
• Costumes draft for Mystery Buff, 1919
Grigory Miasoyedov (1834–1911)
Genre painter
• The Zemstvo is dining, 1872
Mikhail Mikeshin (1835–1896)
Neoclassical sculptor
• Bohdan Khmelnytsky in Kiev, 1888
Ivan
Morozov (1871-1921)
One of the greatest of all Russian art collectors.
Vera Mukhina (1889–1953)
Sculptress, social realist
• Worker and Kolkhoz Woman, 1937
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Ernst Neizvestny (1925–)
Sculptor
• Khrushchev's tomb at the Novodevichy Cemetery, 1971
Mikhail Nesterov (1862–1942)
Religious symbolist painter, portraitist
• Philosophers Pavel Florensky and Sergei Bulgakov, 1917
Louise
Nevelson (b.Louise Berliawsky) (1899–1988)
Assemblage artist, abstract sculptor.
• Sky Cathedral, 1958 (The Museum of Modern Art, New York)
Nikolai Nevrev (1830–1904)
Genre painter
• Bargaining: a Daily Scene in the Serfdom Era, 1866
Gury Nikitin (1620-25 – 1691)
Fresco and icon-painter, illustrator
• The head of John the Baptist, 1680
Ivan Nikitin (1690–1742)
Painter, portraitist
• Peter the Great on the Deathbed, 1725
Alexander Opekushin (1838–1923)
Monument sculptor, architecture decorator
• Alexander Pushkin, Moscow, 1880
Boris Orlovsky (1793–1837)
Neoclassical monument sculptor
• Mikhail Kutuzov at the front of Kazan Cathedral, Saint Petersburg
Anna Ostroumova-Lebedeva (1871-1955)
Oil painter, engraver, watercolourist
• St. Petersburg (1908-10) (engravings)
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Andrew Pavlovsky (1962–)
Expressionist painter, graphic designer
• Trees at the River, 2001
Vasily
Perov (1834–1882)
Realist painter. One of the finest Itinerant painters.
• Easter Procession in the Country, 1861
• Portrait of Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1872
• The Hunters at Rest, 1871
Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin (1878–1939)
Symbolist painter
• Petrograd Madonna, 1918
Antoine Pevsner (1886-1962)
Sculptor and painter (brother of Naum Gabo)
• Portrait of Marcel Duchamp, 1926
Arkady Plastov (1893–1972)
Landscape artist and genre painter
• Haymaking, 1945
Vasily
Polenov (1844–1927)
Landscape painter
• A courtyard in Moscow, 1878
• Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery, 1887
Lyubov
Popova (1889–1924)
Cubist abstractionist painter
• Painterly Architectonic, 1918
Illarion Pryanishnikov (1840–1894)
Genre painter and portraitist
• The Mockers: at Moscow's Gostiny Dvor Shopping Arcade, 1865
Vasili Pukirev (1832–1890)
Realist painter
• The Unequal Marriage, 1862
Ivan Puni (1894-1956)
Russian avant-garde Cubo-Futurist painter, member of the Supremus group.
• Portrait of Artist's Wife (1914) State Russian Museum.
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Charles Radoff (1894–1986)
Landscape painter, neo-impressionist
• Mother Russia, 1968
Ilya
Repin (1844–1930)
History painter, realist, portraitist
(see also: The Wanderers:
Russian Landscape Paintings)
• Barge Haulers on the Volga, 1870-73
• Religious Procession in Kursk Province, 1883
Alexander Rodchenko (1891–1956)
Avant-garde Constructivist painter, sculptor, photographer, graphic designer
• The Battleship Potemkin poster, 1926
Nicholas Roerich (1874–1947)
Painter
• The Victory, 1942
Fyodor Rokotov (1736–1809)
Painter, portraitist
• Portrait of Catherine the Great, 1763
• Portrait of an Unknown Lady in a Pink Dress, 1774
Olga Vladimirovna Rozanova (1886-1918)
Russian Suprematist, Neo-Primitivist, Cubo-Futurist painter.
• Smithy (1912) State Russian Museum.
Andrei
Rublev (1360–1430)
Medieval fresco and icon-painter in the tradition of Byzantine art
• Holy Trinity
Icon, 1411, Tretyakov Gallery
Andrei Ryabushkin (1861–1904)
History painter
• Tsar Mikhail Feodorovich and the Boyar Duma, 1893
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Vasily Sadovnikov (1800-1879)
Landscape artist, genre-painter
• Panoranic View of the Nevsky Avenue, 1830-50
Bogdan Saltanov (1626–1686)
Icon-painter, illustrator, portraitist
• Feodor III of Russia, 1685
Nikolai Sapunov (1880–1912)
Landscape painter. One of the best Itinerant painters.
• The Calm before the Storm, 1890
Martiros Saryan (1880–1972)
Landscape and still life artist
• Constantinople Street: Midday, 1910
Konstantin
Savitsky (1844–1905)
Critical realist genre painter; Blue Rose Still Life painter
• Repairing the Railway, 1874
• Peonies, 1908
Alexei Savrasov (1830–1897)
Romantic landscape painter
• Rasputitsa (Sea of Mud), 1894
Zinaida Serebriakova (1884–1967)
Painter, social realist
• Harvest, 1915
Valentin
Serov (1865–1911)
Impressionist painter, portraitist. One of the greatest and most versatile
of talents in Russian Painting
of the 19th-Century.
• Girl with Peaches, 1887
• Portrait of Isaac Levitan, 1893
Ivan Shadr (1887–1941)
Sculptor
• Gravestone of Nadezhda Alliluyeva, 1933
Semion Shchedrin (1745-1804)
Plein-air landscape artist
• View of the Farmyard in the Tsarskoye Selo, 1777
Silvester Shchedrin (1791–1830)
Neoclassical landscape painter
• Terrace of the Seashore, 1828
Sergei
Shchukin (1854-1936)
One of the greatest Russian collectors of modern art.
Mikhail Shibanov (1749–1790)
Subject and genre painter
• Peasant Meal, 1774
Ivan
Shishkin (1832–1898)
Landscape painter. One of the finest Itinerant painters.
• Morning in a Pine Forest, 1886
• Oak Grove, 1887
Fedot Shubin (1740–1805)
Neoclassical sculptor - a key pioneer of Russian
sculpture.
• Mikhail Lomonosov,1792
Konstantin Somov (1869–1939)
Painter, graphic artist, illustrator, portraitist
• Sergei Rachmaninoff, 1925
Grigory Soroka (1823–1864)
Genre painter, portraitist
• Dam in Spasskoye, Tambov Guberniya, 1840
Chaim
Soutine (1893-1953)
Expressionist painter
• Portrait of a Man with a Red Scarf, 1921
• Carcass of Beef, 1925
• Portrait of Oscar Miestschaninoff, 1923
Georgy Stenberg (1900-33)
Constructivist painter, sculptor, set designer
• Colour Construction No 7, 1920
Vladimir Stenberg (1899-1982)
Avant-garde painter, sculptor, graphic designer
• Colour Construction, 1923
Varvara Stepanova (1894-1958)
Abstract Constructivist artist
Wife of Alexander Rodchenko
Sergei Sudeikin (1882–1946)
Still Life painter, theatrical set designer, influenced by folk
art
• Still Life with porcelein figurines and roses, 1909
Vasily
Surikov (1848–1916)
History painter. One of the greatest of Itinerant painters.
• The Morning of the Execution of the Streltsy, 1881
• March of Suvorov through the Alps, 1899
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Vladimir
Tatlin (1885-1953)
Constructivist painter, sculptor, designer (see Russisn Constructivism)
• Monument to the Third International, 1919
Pavel Tchelitchew (1898-1957)
Surrealist painter, set designer and costume designer.
• Theatre sets for Ode (Paris, 1928), L'Errante (Paris,
1933), Ondine (Paris, 1939).
Pavel Tchistyakov (1832-1919)
Painter, mosaicist (see Mosaic art)
• Great Duchess Sophia Vitovna, 1861
Theophanes
the Greek (c.1340-1410)
Medieval icon painter; founder of the Novgorod
school of icon painting.
• Moscow Kremlin frescos in the Church of the Virgin Nativity (1395)
Feodor Tolstoy (1783–1873)
Neoclassical painter, illustrator
• Family Portrait, 1830
Nikolai Tomsky (1900–1984)
Monument sculptor
• Nikolai Gogol, Moscow, 1952
Gravestone of Joseph Stalin at the Kremlin Wall, Moscow, 1970
Vasily Tropinin (1776–1857)
Romantic painter, portraitist
• Woman in the window, 1841
Alexey Tyranov (1808-1859)
Landscape painter
• View of the Big Church of the Winter Palace, 1829
Zurab Tsereteli (1934–)
Painter, sculptor, architect
• St. George Statue, Tbilisi, 2006
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Nadezhda Andreeva Udaltsova (1886-1961)
Cubo-Futurist painter, member of Malevich's Supremus group.
• Composition with a Yellow Triangle (1916) State Russian
Museum.
Grigory Ugryumov (1764–1823)
Neoclassical history painter
• Capture of Kazan by Ivan the Terrible, 1795
Simon Ushakov (1626–1686)
Icon-painter, member of the Moscow
school of painting, along with the Stroganov brothers, Nicephorus
Savin and Procopius Chirin.
• Archangel Michael Trampling the Devil Underfoot, 1676
Feodor Vasilyev (1850–1873)
Romantic landscape painter
• Wet Meadow, 1872
Apollinary Vasnetsov (1856–1933)
History painter, stage designer
• Moscow Kremlin, 1897
Viktor Vasnetsov (1848–1926)
History painter, Russian Revival style artist, set designer.
• The Frog Princess, 1918
Alexei Venetsianov (1780–1847)
Landscape artist, genre painter
• Fortune telling, 1842
Vasily Vereshchagin (1842–1904)
Military painter
• The Apotheosis of War, 1871
Alexander Vesnin (1883-1959)
Constructivist architect, theatre designer and painter.
• Abstract Composition (1915) M.T. Abraham Foundation.
Ivan Vishnyakov (1699-1761)
Portraitist
• Portrait of Sarah Eleanor Fermore, 1751
Maxim Vorobiev (1787-1855)
Landscape, streetscape artist
• Neva Embankment St Petersburg near the Academy of Arts,
1830
Mikhail Vrubel (1856–1910)
Symbolist and Impressionist painter & sculptor
• The Seated Demon, 1890
• Girl against a Persian Carpet, 1886
• Nadezhda Zabela-Vrubel as The Swan Princess, 1900
Yevgeny Vuchetich (1908–1974)
Monument sculptor (see also Twentieth
Century Sculptors)
• The Motherland Calls at Mamayev Kurgan, Stalingrad, 1963-67
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Marianne von Werefkin (1860–1938)
Avante-garde expressionist paintress
• A Red City, 1909
Boris Yakovlev (1890–1972)
Landscape and cityscapes
• Transport returns to normal, 1923 - see Socialist
Realism
Konstantin Yuon (1875–1958)
Painter, stage designer
• Parade on the Red Square on November 7, 1941, painted 1949
Ossip
Zadkine (1890-1967)
Sculptor, gouache painter, lithographer
• The Destroyed City, 1953
Pyotr Zakharov-Chechenets (1816–1846)
Painter, portraitist
• Aleksey Petrovich Yermolov, 1842
Sergey Zaryanko (1818-1871)
Portraitist
• The Inside View of the Petropavlovsk Church, 1843
Alexey Zubov (1682-1750)
Etcher
• View of Catherinehof, 1716
For details of European collections containing
important holdings of works by Russian painters and sculptors, please
see: Art Museums in Europe.
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