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===Visual arts=== ====Architects==== {{main|Russian architects}} *[[Aloisio da Milano]], builder of the [[Kremlin towers]] and [[Terem Palace]][[File:Alexander brullov.jpg|thumb|90px|[[Alexander Brullov]]]] *[[Aloisio the New]], builder of the [[Archangel Cathedral]] *[[Gavriil Baranovsky]], builder of [[Elisseeff Emporium]] and the [[Buddhist]] Temple in [[St Petersburg]] *[[Vasily Bazhenov]], architect of the [[Tsaritsyno Park]] and the [[Russian State Library]] *[[Joseph Bové]], chief architect of Moscow after the [[Fire of Moscow (1812)|Fire of 1812]] *[[Vincenzo Brenna]], court architect of [[Paul I of Russia]] *[[Alexander Brullov]], builder of the [[Pulkovo Observatory]] *[[Cameron (architect)|Charles Cameron]], architect of [[Tsarskoye Selo]] and [[Pavlovsk Palace]][[File:Shukin-Felten.jpg|thumb|90px|[[Yury Felten]]]] *[[Alberto Cavos]], builder of the [[Bolshoi Theatre]] and the [[Mariinsky Theatre]] *[[Alexey Dushkin]], inventor of the first [[deep column station]] *[[Yury Felten]], mover of the [[Grom-Kamen|Thunder Stone]], maker of the [[Summer Garden]] grille, builder of [[St Petersburg]] embankments *[[Aristotile Fioravanti]], builder of the [[Dormition Cathedral in Moscow]] *[[Ivan Fomin]], master of [[Russian neoclassical revival]] and [[postconstructivism]] *[[Moisei Ginzburg]], master of [[Constructivist architecture]], founder of the [[OSA Group]] *[[David Grimm (architect)|David Grimm]], builder of the [[Church of Maria Magdalene]] and [[Chersonesus Cathedral]][[File:Levitsky kokrinov.jpg|thumb|90px|[[Alexander Kokorinov]]]] *[[Boris Iofan]], grandmaster of [[Stalinist architecture]] *[[Matvei Kazakov]], builder of the [[Kremlin Senate]] *[[Roman Klein]], builder of the [[Pushkin Museum]] and [[TsUM]] *[[Alexander Kokorinov]], builder of the [[Imperial Academy of Arts]] *[[Fyodor Kon]], builder of the [[Smolensk]] Kremlin and Moscow's [[Bely Gorod]] *[[Nikolai Ladovsky]], leader of [[rationalist architecture]] of [[ASNOVA]] *[[Nikolay Lvov]], polymath scientist and artist, adapted [[rammed earth]] technology for northern climate, pioneered [[HVAC]] technology, built [[Priory Palace]] in [[Gatchina]][[File:Melnikov.jpg|thumb|90px|[[Konstantin Melnikov]]]] *[[Georg Johann Mattarnovy]], architect of [[Kunstkamera]] *[[Auguste de Montferrand]], builder of [[Saint Isaac's Cathedral]] and the [[Alexander Column]] *[[Arkady Mordvinov]], architect of [[Hotel Ukraina (Moscow)|the tallest hotel in Europe]] *[[Nikolai Nikitin]], engineer of the largest Soviet structures: [[Moscow State University]], [[Luzhniki Stadium]], [[The Motherland Calls]] and [[Ostankino Tower]] (once [[List of tallest freestanding structures in the world|the world's tallest]]) *[[Vyacheslav Oltarzhevsky]], architect of the [[All-Russia Exhibition Centre]] and [[Hotel Ukraina (Moscow)]] [[File:Ротари - Портрет архитектора Бартоломео Растрелли.jpg|thumb|90px|[[Bartolomeo Rastrelli]]]] *[[Petrok Maly]], builder of the [[Kitai-gorod]] Wall and the Ascension Church in [[Kolomenskoye]] *[[Anatoly Polyansky]], architect of the [[Museum of the Great Patriotic War, Moscow]] *[[Alexander Pomerantsev]], builder of the [[GUM (department store)|GUM]] and the [[Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Sofia]] *[[Giacomo Quarenghi]], builder of the [[Hermitage Theatre]] and [[Smolny Institute]] *[[Bartolomeo Rastrelli]], grandmaster of [[Russian baroque]], builder of [[Peterhof Palace]], [[Saint Andrew's Church in Kiev]], [[Smolny Convent]], [[Catherine Palace]], [[Winter Palace]] *[[Antonio Rinaldi (architect)|Antonio Rinaldi]], architect of [[Oranienbaum, Russia|Oranienbaum]] and [[Tsarskoye Selo]], builder of the [[Marble Palace]] *[[Rossi (architect)|Carlo Rossi]], architect of the neoclassical ensembles of [[St Petersburg]], author of the [[Russian Museum]], [[Alexandrinsky Theater]], [[General Staff Building in St. Petersburg]] *[[Lev Rudnev]], builder of [[Seven Sisters (Moscow)|Stalinist skyscrapers]] *[[Marco Ruffo]], builder of [[Kremlin towers]] and the [[Palace of Facets]] *[[Fyodor Schechtel]], master of [[Art Nouveau]], builder of [[Yaroslavsky Rail Terminal]] *[[Vladimir Shchuko]], builder of the [[Lenin Library]], master of [[Stalinist architecture]] *[[Aleksey Shchusev]], builder of [[Lenin's Mausoleum]] on [[Red Square]] and the [[Hotel Moskva (Moscow)]] *[[V. O. Sherwood|Vladimir Sherwood]], builder of the [[State Historical Museum]] *[[Vladimir Shukhov]], engineer-[[polymath]], inventor of breakthrough [[industrial design]]s( [[hyperboloid structure]], [[thin-shell structure]], [[tensile structure]], [[gridshell]]), builder of [[Shukhov Tower]]s and multiple other structures[[File:Konstantin Thon 1820-th.jpg|thumb|90px|[[Konstantin Thon]]]] *[[Pietro Antonio Solari]], builder of the [[Spasskaya tower]] and the [[Palace of Facets]] *[[Vasily Stasov]], inventor of the [[Russian Revival]] style, builder of the [[Moscow Triumphal Gates]] and [[Narva Triumphal Gates]] *[[Andrei Stackenschneider]], builder of the [[Mariinsky Palace]] and [[Beloselsky-Belozersky Palace]] *[[Ivan Starov]], builder of the [[Tauride Palace]] *[[Vladimir Tatlin]], author of [[Tatlin's Tower]] project *[[Konstantin Thon]], builder of the [[Grand Kremlin Palace]], [[Kremlin Armoury]] and the [[Cathedral of Christ the Saviour]] (the world's [[tallest Orthodox church]]) *[[Domenico Trezzini]], the first architect of [[St Petersburg]], builder of the [[Peter and Paul Fortress]], [[Summer Palace of Peter the Great]], [[Twelve Collegia]] and [[Saints Peter and Paul Cathedral, Saint Petersburg|Peter and Paul Cathedral]] (the world's [[tallest Orthodox belltower]])[[File:Voronikhin.jpg|thumb|90px|[[Andrey Voronikhin]]]] *[[Vesnin brothers]], leaders of [[constructivist architecture]] *[[Andrey Voronikhin]], builder of the [[Kazan Cathedral, St. Petersburg|Kazan Cathedral]] and [[Saint Petersburg Mining Institute]] *[[Postnik Yakovlev]], builder of [[Saint Basil's Cathedral]] on [[Red Square]] *[[Andreyan Zakharov]], builder of the [[Admiralty building, Saint Petersburg|Russian Admiralty]] *[[Mikhail Zemtsov]], architect of [[Catherinethal]] *[[Pyotr Baranovsky]], preservationist of ancient Russian architecture, notable for saving [[Saint Basil's Cathedral]] from destruction by the Soviet authorities in the 1930s. ====Sculptors and jewellers==== {{main|Russian artists}} *[[Mikhail Anikushin]], monumentalist, author of celebrated statues of [[Pushkin]][[File:Peter Clodt von Jürgensburg.jpg|thumb|90px|[[Peter Clodt]]]] *[[Mihail Chemiakin]], author of ''[[Children Are the Victims of Adult Vices]]'' *[[Peter Clodt]], famous for equestrian statues, author of the [[Anichkov Bridge]] ''Horse Tamers'' *[[Vasily Demut-Malinovsky]], author of the chariot groups on the [[Narva Triumphal Gates]] and the [[General Staff Building in St. Petersburg]] *[[Peter Carl Fabergé]], jeweller, creator of the [[Fabergé Egg]]s *[[Naum Gabo]], sculptor, pioneer of [[kinetic art]] *[[M. M. Gerasimov|Mikhail Gerasimov]], forensic sculptor, reconstructed the appearance of [[Tamerlane]], [[Yaroslav the Wise]], [[Rudaki]] and many other historical figures *[[Ilya Kabakov]], conceptual installation artist[[File:Karl Gustavovich Faberge.jpg|thumb|90px|[[Peter Carl Fabergé]]]] *[[Vyacheslav Klykov]], author of the monuments to [[Marshal Zhukov]], [[Saints Cyril and Methodius]], the [[Battle of Kursk]] *[[Sergey Konenkov]], sculptor, "the Russian [[Auguste Rodin|Rodin]]" *[[Mikhail Kozlovsky]], neoclassical sculptor, author of the [[:File:Samson-Peterhof.jpg|Samson fountain]] in [[Peterhof Palace|Peterhof]] and monument to ''[[Suvorov]] the [[Mars (god)|Mars]]'' *[[Ivan Martos]], author of the [[Monument to Minin and Pozharsky]] on [[Red Square]] *[[Mikhail Mikeshin]], author of the ''[[Millennium of Russia]]'', the monument to [[Catherine the Great|Catherine II]] in [[St Petersburg]], the monument to [[Bohdan Khmelnytsky]] in [[Kyiv]][[File:Mikeshin by Repin.jpg|thumb|90px|[[Mikhail Mikeshin]]]] *[[Vera Mukhina]], sculptor, inventor of [[welded sculpture]], author of the ''[[Worker and Kolkhoz Woman]]'' *[[Andrei Molodkin]] (born 1966), sculpture and installation *[[Ernst Neizvestny]], author of the ''[[Nelumbo|Lotus]] Flower'' at the [[Aswan Dam]] in [[Egypt]] *[[Alexander Opekushin]], author of early monuments to [[Pushkin]], [[Lermontov]], [[Aleksandr II]] *[[Boris Orlovsky]], author of the statues of [[M. Kutuzov|Kutuzov]] and [[Barclay de Tolly]] in front of [[Kazan Cathedral, St. Petersburg]] *[[Avenir Sumin]], competitor of Fabergé *[[Nikolai Tomsky]], author of multiple [[Lenin]] statues and the [[Tomb of the Unknown Soldier (Moscow)]] *[[Zurab Tsereteli]], author of the ''[[Peter the Great Statue]]'', ''[[To the Struggle Against World Terrorism]]'', [[St. George]] statues at the [[Moscow War Memorial]] and the [[Freedom Monument (Tbilisi)]] *[[Yevgeny Vuchetich]], author of the [[Soviet War Memorial in Berlin]], ''[[Let Us Beat Swords into Plowshares]]'' in the New York [[United Nations|UN]] garden, and ''[[The Motherland Calls]]'' in [[Volgograd]] ====Painters==== {{main|Russian artists}} *[[Ivan Aivazovsky]], author of ''[[The Ninth Wave]]'' and over 6000 paintings, mostly [[seascape]]s[[File:Aivazovsky portrait by Tyranov.jpg|thumb|90px|[[Ivan Aivazovsky]]]] *[[Fyodor Alekseyev]], prominent [[landscapist]], "the Russian [[Canaletto]]" *[[Ivan Argunov]], major 18th-century portraitist *[[Léon Bakst]], stage and costume designer for the [[Ballets Russes]], author of the ''[[:File:Terror Antiquus by L.Bakst (1908).jpg|Terror Antiquus]]'' *[[Alexandre Benois]], artist and art critic, influential stage designer, author of the celebrated illustrations to [[Pushkin]]'s ''[[Bronze Horseman]]'' *[[Ivan Bilibin]], painter and stage designer, famous for illustrations of [[Slavic mythology]] and [[Set construction|set]]s for [[Russian fairy tale]]-based [[Russian opera]]s *[[Alexey Bogolyubov]], landscape and seascape painter *[[Victor Borisov-Musatov]], [[Post-Impressionist]] painter, creator of ''Russian Symbolism'' *[[Vladimir Borovikovsky]], famous portraitist at the turn of the 19th century [[File:Yury Pen - Portrait of Marc Chagall.jpg|thumb|90px|[[Marc Chagall]]]] *[[Karl Briullov]], neoclassical painter, author of ''[[The Last Day of Pompeii]]'' *[[Marc Chagall]], [[polymath]]-artist, pioneer of [[modernism]] and [[figurative art]], author of famous [[stained glass]]es *[[Pavel Chistyakov]], history and portrait painter, tutor of many celebrated artists *[[Alexander Deyneka]], master of [[socialist realism]], author of the mosaics at [[Mayakovskaya (Moscow Metro)]] *[[Dionisy]], medieval [[icon painter]], [[fresco]]es in the [[Ferapontov Monastery]] *Julia Dolgorukova, painter, landscapist, famous for works on stage, costume designer and new synthetic technologies in painting [[File:Юлия Долгорукова.jpg|thumb|90px|Julia Dolgorukova]] *[[Andrey Esionov]], painter *[[Vladimir Favorsky]], graphic artist, famous for [[woodcut]] illustrations of classic books *[[Pavel Fedotov]], realist painter, "the Russian [[W. Hogarth|Hogarth]]" *[[Nikolai Ge]], realist painter, famous for works on historical and religious motifs[[File:Vassily-Kandinsky.jpeg|thumb|90px|[[Wassily Kandinsky]]]] *[[Feofan Grek]], medieval [[fresco]] and icon-painter in [[Byzantine Empire]] and Russia *[[A. A. Ivanov|Alexander Ivanov]], neoclassical painter, author of ''[[:File:Alexander Andrejewitsch Iwanow - The Appearance of Christ before the People.jpg|The Appearance of Christ before the People]]'' *[[Ivanov (painter)|Sergey Ivanov]], author of famous illustrations of [[Russian history]] *[[Wassily Kandinsky]], inventor of pure [[abstract art]], founder of [[Der Blaue Reiter]] *[[Orest Kiprensky]], romantic painter and portraitist *[[Konstantin Korovin]], leading Russian [[Impressionist]] painter *[[Ivan Kramskoi]], painter and art critic, author of the ''[[:File:Kramskoi Christ dans le désert.jpg|Christ in the Desert]]'' and the ''[[:File:Kramskoy Portrait of a Woman.jpg|Unknown Woman]]''[[File:Kustodiev self portrait.jpg|thumb|90px|[[Boris Kustodiev]]]] *[[Boris Kustodiev]], author of famous portraits, holiday scenes and "Kustodiev's women" (''[[:File:Kustodiev Merchants Wife.jpg|The Merchant's Wife]]'', ''[[:File:Bathing. Kustodiev.jpg|Bathing]]'', ''[[:File:Kustodiev russian venus.jpg|The Russian Venus]]'') *[[Mikhail Larionov]], [[avant-garde]] painter, inventor of [[rayonism]] *[[Alexei Leonov]], cosmonaut and painter, made some of his works in [[outer space]] *[[Isaac Levitan]], landscapist, author of the ''[[:File:Levitan nad vech pok28.jpg|Over Eternal Peace]]'' *[[Rafail Sergeevich Levitsky]], Peredvizhniki artist and court photographer to the Romanov dynasty *[[El Lissitzky]], [[avant-garde]] painter, typographer, author of ''[[:File:Artwork by El Lissitzky 1919.jpg|Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge]]''[[File:Self-Portrait (1908 or 1910-1911).jpg|thumb|90px|[[Kazimir Malevich]]]] *[[Konstantin Makovsky]], famous for idealized history paintings *[[Kazimir Malevich]], inventor of [[suprematism]], author of the ''[[:File:Malevich.black-square.jpg|Black Square]]'' *[[Sergey Malyutin]], painter and folk artist, designed the first [[matryoshka doll]] *[[Vladimir Mayakovsky]], [[futurism|futurist]] poet and [[propaganda]] artist, author of the [[Rosta Windows]] [[agitprop]] *[[Sergey Miloradovich]], historical painter *[[Mikhail Nesterov]], religious symbolist painter, portraitist, author of ''[[The Vision of the Youth Bartholomew]]'' *[[Ivan Nikitin (painter)|Ivan Nikitin]], famous [[Pyotr I|Petrine]] era portraitist[[File:REPIN portret REPIN.jpg|thumb|90px|[[Ilya Repin]]]] *[[Vasily Perov]], realist painter, author of the ''[[:File:Тройка - Василий Григорьевич Перов (1866).jpg|Troika]]'' and ''[[:File:Wassilij Grigorjewitsch Perow 004.jpg|The Hunters at Rest]]'' *[[Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin]], symbolist painter, author of the ''[[:File:Bathing of a Red Horse Petrov-Vodkin.jpg|Bathing of a Red Horse]]'' *[[Vasily Polenov]], landscape painter, author of ''[[:File:Wassilij Dimitriewitsch Polenow 003.jpg|A courtyard in Moscow]]'' and ''[[:File:Wassilij Dimitriewitsch Polenow 001.jpg|Grandma's garden]]'' *[[Ilya Repin]], archetypical Russian painter, famous for his portraits and history scenes, author of the ''[[Barge Haulers on the Volga]]'' and the ''[[Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks]]'' *[[Alexander Rodchenko]], [[avant-garde]] artist, graphic designer and [[constructivist painter]] *[[Nicholas Roerich]], artist, scientist, traveler, public figure, initiator of the international [[Roerich Pact]], author of over 7000 paintings[[File:N Roerich.jpg|thumb|90px|[[Nicholas Roerich]]]] *[[Andrei Rublev]], most famous Russian [[Russian icons|icon-painter]], author of the ''[[Trinity (Andrei Rublev)|Trinity]]'' *[[Andrei Ryabushkin]], history painter, works devoted mostly to 17th-century Russia *[[Alexei Savrasov]], [[landscape painter]], creator of the ''lyrical landscape'' style *[[Zinaida Serebriakova]], the most prolific woman painter of Russia, famous for female portraits and [[nudity in art|nudes]] *[[Valentin Serov]], [[impressionist]] painter, portraitist, author of ''[[Girl with Peaches|The Girl with Peaches]]'' and ''[[:File:Serov — The Rape of Europe.jpg|The Kidnapping of Europe]]'' *[[Taras Shevchenko]], romantic poet and painter *[[Ivan Shishkin]], author of the most celebrated Russian landscapes: the ''[[Morning in a Pine Forest]]'', ''[[:File:Ivan Shishkin - Рожь - Google Art Project.jpg|Rye Fields]]'', the ''[[:File:Shishkin DozVDubLesu 114.jpg|Rain in an Oak Forest]]'' *[[Konstantin Somov]], prominent [[Russian literature]] illustrator *[[Vasily Surikov]], author the famous [[Russian history]] paintings ''[[:File:Surikov streltsi.jpg|The Morning of Streltsy's Execution]]'', ''[[:File:Surikov morozova.jpg|Boyarynya Morozova]]'', ''[[:File:Suvorov crossing the alps.jpg|The March of Suvorov through the Alps]]'' *[[Vasily Tropinin]], romantic and realist portraitist *[[Israel Tsvaygenbaum]], painter [[File:IsraelTsvaygenbaum.jpg|thumb|90px|[[Israel Tsvaygenbaum]]]] *[[Simon Ushakov]], prolific late 17th-century [[icon painter]], ''[[:File:Ushakov Nerukotvorniy.jpg|Saviour Not Made by Hands]]'' *[[Feodor Vasilyev]], lyrical landscape painter *[[Apollinary Vasnetsov]], [[Russian history]] illustrator, many works devoted to Moscow *[[Viktor Vasnetsov]], famous for Russian history and [[Slavic mythology]] images, inventor of [[budenovka]], author of the ''[[:File:Vasnetsov samolet.jpg|Flying Carpet]]'', ''[[:File:Vasnetsov Ioann 4.jpg|Tsar Ivan The Terrible]]'', the ''[[:File:Die drei Bogatyr.jpg|Bogatyrs]]'' *[[Alexey Venetsianov]], prominent genre painter, founder of the "Venetsianov school"[[File:Serebryakova SefPortrait.jpg|thumb|90px|[[Zinaida Serebriakova]]]] *[[Vasily Vereshchagin]], battle painter, author of ''[[:File:Apotheosis.jpg|The Apotheosis of War]]'' and the ''[[:File:Vereshchagin-Blowing from Guns in British India.jpg|Blowing from Guns in British India]]'' *[[Romanov Viktor]] (born 1959), painter *[[Mikhail Vrubel]], leader of the ''Russian Symbolism'', author of ''[[:File:Vrubel Demon.jpg|The Demon Sitting]]'' and ''[[:File:Swan princess.jpg|The Swan Princess]]'' *[[Nikolai Yaroshenko]], realist genre painter and portraitist *[[Pyotr Zakharov-Chechenets]], portrait painter of [[Chechen people|Chechen]] origin *[[Leon Zernitsky]], illustrator and artist *[[Karp Zolotaryov]], late 17th-century [[Russian icons|icon painter]], notable for realistic style
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