Vladimir Sergeyevich Peruninsky was born in Chelyabinsk in 1957. From 1974 to 1976, he studied at the Moscow Secondary Art School at the V.I. Surikov Institute. In 1989, he graduated from the Moscow State Academic Art In…

Mikhail Alexandrovich Drizo, born on July 15, 1887, in Odessa and died on September 23, 1953, in Paris, was a renowned graphic artist and caricaturist who worked in Russia and France. He created the caricature book "So I…

Alexey Dmitrievich Putyata was born on January 13, 1855, into the family of a Smolensk landowner, Dmitry Alexandrovich Putyata, who owned an estate in the village of Bessonovo in the Vyazemsky district. In 1877, he gradu…

Mikhail Mikhailovich Ustinov came from a noble noble family, founded by the Saratov merchant Mikhail Andrianovich Ustinov (1755, 1836), and was a descendant of his younger son, Mikhail Grigorievich. Mikhail's father, aft…

In the nineteenth century, Rostov-on-Don became one of the most prosperous cities in southern Russia, and the number of wealthy merchants began to grow. Among them stood out Stepan Fedorovich Gench-Ogulaev. The exact yea…

Grigory Khristoforovich Bakhchisaraytsev, a native of Nakhichevan-on-Don, was one of the prominent entrepreneurs and public figures of pre-revolutionary Rostov-on-Don. At that time, Nakhichevan was a separate city. Born …

One of the outstanding pre-revolutionary mayors of Rostov-on-Don was Ivan Stepanovich Levanidov, a second-guild merchant, hereditary honorary citizen, and major philanthropist. Ivan Stepanovich was born on August 23, 18…

Artist Valentin Fedorovich Papko was born in September 1939 in the stanitsa of Novominskaya in the Krasnodar Krai. In 1957, he entered the Penza Art School, later transferring to the Krasnodar Art School, which he gradua…

Mikhail Frantsevich Lenin, known by his real surname Ignatyuk, was born on February 21 (March 4 in the new style) 1880 in Kyiv. He was the son of a petty bourgeois of Polish descent, Franz Grigorievich Ignatyuk, and his …

Karl Karlovich Pirate (1813, 1871) was a renowned battle painter, specializing in watercolor. He entered the Imperial Academy of Arts as a scholar of Emperor Nicholas I, where he studied under Professor A. Zauerweid. For…