Chavain Sergey Grigoryevich
Sergey Grigoryevich Chavain was born in 1888 into a poor peasant family. His father, Grigory Mikhailov, was a peasant and tar maker, while his mother, Tatyana Anisimovna, had a talent for storytelling and knew many folk …
Sergey Vasilyevich Sheremetev
Sergey Vasilyevich Sheremetev came from the Sheremetev family, which traces its origins to Vasily Petrovich, the brother of the field marshal. He was the eldest son of Major General Vasily Sergeevich and Tatyana Ivanovna…
Alexander Grigoriev
Alexander Grigoriev was born in 1891 in a teacher's family in the village of Petnury, near Kozmodemyansk. From an early age, he showed an interest in painting. At that time, national visual arts were just beginning to de…
Ivan Stepanovich Klyuchnikov-Palantai
Ivan Stepanovich Klyuchnikov was born on April 11, 1886, in the village of Kokshamary, which was located in the Posadsko-Sotnikova volost of the Cheboksary district of the Kazan province. Today, this is the village of Ko…
Konakov Alexander Fyodorovich
Alexander Konakov was born on September 9, 1887, into a peasant family. In 1908, he graduated from the Kukarsk Teacher's Seminary and worked as a teacher at the Konganur Two-Class School until 1914. He then entered the V…
Nikon Ignatiev
Nikon Ignatiev was born on March 19, 1895, in the village of Chalomkino, which is now located in the Gornomariysky District of Mari El, into the family of a laborer. Before the revolution, he worked as a laborer and a bu…
Yuri Bulanov
Yuri Bulanov was born on April 29, 1904, in Moscow. In his youth, he began playing football for the Moscow club "Nazdar" and then moved to the MCLS team. However, at the end of 1918 or the beginning of 1919, his family m…
Boris Vladimirovich Vilde
Born in St. Petersburg into an Orthodox family, he spent his childhood in the village of Yastrebino near Petrograd.
In 1919, the Vilde family emigrated to Estonia and settled in Tartu, known as a university city. In 192…
Mukhins Nikolai Semyonovich
Mukhins Nikolai Semyonovich was born into a family of a rural teacher. After graduating from the Unzhin school in 1907, he followed in his father's footsteps and became a teacher.
He participated in World War I. After r…
Dudin Semyon Emelyanovich
Semyon Emelyanovich Dudin was born into a serf family. In 1785, his father sent six-year-old Semyon to a boarding school at the Academy of Arts. Semyon repeatedly took first places in drawing from life and received silve…
