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Alexander Ivanov
Alexander Ivanov (1806–1858) was a Russian painter best known for The Appearance of Christ to the People, one of the best-known works in Russian art.
Alexei Savrasov
Alexei Savrasov (Алексей Кондратьевич Саврасов, 1830–1897) was a Russian landscape painter and teacher, born and died in Moscow, whose The Rooks Have Come Back (1871) founded the lyrical Russian landscape.
Grigory Myasoyedov
Grigory Myasoyedov (Григорий Мясоедов), 1834 to 1911, was a Russian realist painter who co-founded the Peredvizhniki, drafted their charter, and painted peasant life in works like The Zemstvo Dining.
Isaac Levitan
Isaac Levitan (Исаак Ильич Левитан, 1860–1900) was a Russian realist landscape painter, called the "singer of Russian nature," whose mood landscapes include Above Eternal Peace and March.
Ivan Kramskoi
Ivan Kramskoi was a Russian painter and portraitist who led the 1863 Revolt of the Fourteen against the Imperial Academy of Arts and organized the Peredvizhniki traveling exhibitions.
Ivan Shishkin
Ivan Shishkin, also Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin (Иван Иванович Шишкин), was a Russian realist landscape painter of forests, known for Rye and Morning in a Pine Forest.
Karl Bryullov
Karl Bryullov (Карл Па́влович Брюлло́в), born Karl Brulleau, was a leading Russian academic painter whose The Last Day of Pompeii (1833) won him broad European fame.
Konstantin Korovin
Konstantin Korovin (Константин Коровин; 1861–1939) was a Russian painter and theater designer regarded as the leading representative of Russian impressionism and chief artist of the Bolshoi Theatre.
Konstantin Somov
Konstantin Somov, also known as Konstantin Andreyevich Somov (Константин Андреевич Сомов), was a Russian painter and founding member of Mir Iskusstva, best known for The Lady in Blue.
Mikhail Vrubel
Mikhail Vrubel was a Russian painter, graphic artist, ceramicist, and stage designer born in Omsk in 1856, a leading Symbolist known for his Demon series.
Mykola Pymonenko
Mykola Pymonenko (Микола Пимоненко) was a Ukrainian realist painter of Ukrainian village and town life scenes; his painting Hopak won a gold medal at the 1909 Paris Salon.
Nikolai Ge
Nikolai Ge, also known as Mykola Ge, was a Russian and Ukrainian painter of French descent and a founder of the Peredvizhniki, known for "The Last Supper".
Nikolai Yaroshenko
Nikolai Alexandrovich Yaroshenko (Ukrainian: Микола Ярошенко, 1846–1898) was a Russian painter of Ukrainian origin who led the Peredvizhniki and retired as a major-general to paint full time.
Oleksandr Murashko
Oleksandr Murashko (Олександр Мурашко, born Krachkovsky) was a Ukrainian painter known for psychologically acute portraits, and a co-founder of the Ukrainian Academy of Arts in Kyiv.
Orest Kiprensky
Orest Kiprensky (Орест Кипренский, 1782–1836) was a Russian painter and draftsman, regarded as the first artist of Russian Romanticism and the leading master of the Russian romantic portrait.
Sylvester Shchedrin
Sylvester Feodosievich Shchedrin (Сильвестр Щедрин) was a Russian landscape painter, 1791–1830, who spent his mature career in Italy, painting views of Rome and Naples directly from nature and influencing the Neapolitan Posillipo school.
Vasily Perov
Vasily Perov (Василий Перов) was a Russian critical realist painter of genre scenes and portraits, a founding member of the Peredvizhniki who taught at the Moscow School.
Vasily Polenov
Vasily Polenov, also known as Vasily Dmitrievich Polenov, was a Russian Peredvizhniki painter known for lyrical landscapes like Moscow Courtyard (1878) and his cycle From the Life of Christ.
Vasily Tropinin
Vasily Andreyevich Tropinin (Василий Тропинин) was a Russian portrait painter who spent half his life as a serf, becoming an academician and Moscow's leading portraitist.
Viktor Vasnetsov
Viktor Vasnetsov (Виктор Михайлович Васнецов, 1848–1926) was a Russian painter who founded the national-romantic trend, known for Bogatyrs, Alenushka, and the frescoes of St Vladimir's Cathedral in Kiev.
Vladimir Makovsky
Vladimir Yegorovich Makovsky (Владимир Егорович Маковский, 1846–1920) was a Russian genre painter and leading member of the Peredvizhniki, known for small narrative scenes of Moscow life.