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18th-century painters from the Russian Empire

  • Dmitry LevitzkyDmitry Grigoryevich Levitzky entered the world in May 1735 within the city of Kiev. His father served as a priest and worked as an amateur painter and…
  • Ivan ArgunovIvan Petrovich Argunov entered the world in 1729 as a serf bound to the Counts Sheremetev. He grew up within the household of his uncle, Semyon Mikhaylovich…
  • Vladimir BorovikovskyVladimir Lukich Borovikovsky entered the world on the 24th of July 1757 in Mirgorod. This town sat within the Cossack Hetmanate of the Russian Empire.
  • Mikhail LomonosovIn 1730, a nineteen-year-old fisherman named Mikhail Lomonosov walked one hundred miles from his village of Mishaninskaya to the city of Moscow.