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Watercolorists from the Russian Empire

  • Alexander Andreyevich IvanovAlexander Andreyevich Ivanov entered the Imperial Academy of Arts at age 11. He studied alongside Karl Briullov under his father's course.
  • Wassily KandinskyIn 1889, a twenty-three-year-old law student named Wassily Kandinsky joined an ethnographic research group traveling to the Vologda region north of Moscow.
  • Mikhail VrubelMikhail Vrubel was born on the 17th of March 1856 in Omsk. His father Alexander served as a desk officer for the 2nd Steppe Siberian Corps during that time.