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List of Russian artists

March 05, 2023

This is a list of Russian artists. In this context, the term "Russian" covers the Russian Federation, Soviet Union, Russian Empire, Tsardom of Russia and Grand Duchy of Moscow, including ethnic Russians and people of other ethnicities living in Russia. This list also includes those who were born in Russia but later emigrated, and those who were born elsewhere but immigrated to the country and/or worked there for a significant period of time.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

Alphabetical list

A

Portrait Person
  Ivan Aivazovsky
(1817–1900)
seascape and landscape painter, portraitist
 
Storm, 1886
  Fyodor Alekseyev
(1753–1824)
cityscape and landscape painter
 
Red Square in Moscow, 1801
 
The Foundling Hospital in Moscow
 
The view of Nikolaev
Sara Alexandri
(1913–)
still life and landscape painter.
  Nikolay Anokhin
(1966–)
still life and landscape painter
 
In the old house of Rakitins, 1998
 
A village, 2006
 
Chronos, 2007
Evgenia Antipova
(1917–2009)
portrait, genre, and still life painter
  Mark Antokolski
(1843–1902)
sculptor
(portrait by Ilya Repin)
  Aleksey Antropov
(1716–1795)
painter, portraitist
(self-portrait, 1784)
 
Ataman Krasnoschekov, 1761
 
Catherine II, 1760s
 
Unknown lady, 1760s
  Ivan Argunov
(1729–1802)
painter, portraitist
(self-portrait, end of the 1750s)
 
Catherine II, 1762
 
Kalmyk girl Annushka, 1767
 
Unknown peasant girl, 1784
Irina Azizyan
(1935–2009)
landscape painter
 
Red leaves, 1978

B

Portrait Person
  Léon Bakst
(1866–1924)
painter, stage and costume designer
(self-portrait, 1893)
 
Terror Antiquus, 1908
 
Costume of Cléopâtre for Ida Rubinstein, 1909
  Maria Bashkirtseva
(1858–1884)
painter
(self-portrait, 1880)
 
The Studio, 1881
 
Autumn, 1883
 
The Meeting, 1884
Nikolai Baskakov
(1918–1993)
portrait, genre, and landscape painter
  Alexandre Benois
(1870–1960)
painter, stage designer
(portrait by Léon Bakst, 1898)
 
Illustration to Pushkin's Bronze Horseman, 1904
 
Set for Stravinsky's Petrushka, 1911
 
At the German Quarter, 1911
Alexandre Beridze
(1975–)
Expressive abstraction painter
 
Intersection Opus 415, 2014
 
Intersection Opus 232
 
Opus
  Ivan Bilibin
(1876–1942)
painter, illustrator, stage designer
(portrait by Boris Kustodiev, 1901)
 
Set for The Golden Cockerel, 1909
 
Ivan Tsarevich catching the Firebird's feather, 1899
  Ivan Bogdanov
(1855–1932)
genre painter
(portrait by Leonid Solomatkin)
 
For calculation, 1890
 
Beginner, 1893
  Nikolai Bogdanov-Belsky
(1868–1945)
realist painter
(self-portrait, 1915)
 
Reading a letter, 1892
 
Counting in their heads, 1895
  Victor Borisov-Musatov
(1870–1905)
symbolist painter
(self-portrait with sister, 1898)
 
Spring, 1898-1901
 
Daphnis and Chloe, 1901
 
The Pool, 1902
  Vladimir Borovikovsky
(1757–1825)
painter, portraitist
(portrait by Bugaevsky-Blagodatny, a pupil of Borovikovsky)
 
Pavel I, 1800
  Osip Braz
(1873–1936)
painter, portraitist
 
Portrait of Anton Chekhov, 1898
 
Wife, 1907
 
Portrait of painter Sergey Ivanov, 1903
  Alexander Briullov
(1798–1877)
neoclassical architect and painter, portraitist
(self-portrait, 1830)
 
Castel Sant'Angelo in Rome, 1823-1826
 
E.M. Lvova, 1830s
  Karl Bryullov
(1799–1852)
neoclassical painter
(self-portrait, 1848)
 
Italian midday, 1827
 
A horse rideress, 1832
Alexey Brodovitch
(1898–1971)
painter, illustrator, graphic designer, photographer
  Feodor Bruni
(1799–1875)
neoclassical painter
(self-portrait, 1810s)
 
Maenad giving drink to Cupid, 1828
 
Z.A.Volkonskaya dressed as Tancredi, 1820s
  Misha Brusilovsky
(1931–2016)
painter
(self-portrait, 1998)
 
Football. 1965
 
Homo sapiens. 1973
 
Aggressia. 1975

C

Portrait Person
  Marc Chagall
(1887–1985)
painter, illustrator, stained glass artist, stage designer, ceramics and tapestries designer
(portrait by Yehuda Pen)
 
Reclining Nude, 1911
 
Donkey on the Roof, 1911/12
 
The Fiddler, 1912
  Mikhail Chapiro
(1938–)
artist, painter
  Nikolai Chekhov
(1858–1889)
painter, illustrator
 
Portrait of Anton Chekhov
 
The Party at Sokolniki
 
The Young Widow at the Grave of Her Husband
  Mihail Chemiakin
(1943–)
sculptor, painter, stage designer
  Pavel Chistyakov
(1832–1919)
painter, arts teacher
(portrait by Chistyakov's pupil Ilya Repin)
 
Sophia of Lithuania at the Wedding of Vasily the Blind, 1861
 
Giovannina sitting by the window
 
Patriarch Hermogenes refuses to bless the Poles
  Peter Clodt
(1805–1867)
sculptor
 
The 3rd group of Anichkov Bridge, Saint Petersburg
 
Nicholas I on Isaac's Square, Saint Petersburg

D

Portrait Person
  Vasily Demut-Malinovsky
(1779–1846)
neoclassical sculptor
Alexander Deyneka
(1899–1969)
social realist painter, graphic artist, sculptor
Dionisy
(c. 1440–1502)
medieval fresco and icon-painter

E

Portrait Person
  Stepan Erzia
(1876–1959)
Art Nouveau sculptor, woodcut artist
(a lithography by an Argentinian artist)
 
Sculpture in wood
Andrey Esionov
(1963–)
portraitist, cityscape painter, graphic artist
Mikhail Evstafiev
(1963–)
avant-garde painter, writer, photographer
 
Village under a dream sky
 
A photo of circus Chimes act (directed by Valentin Gneushev)

F

Portrait Person
  Peter Carl Fabergé
(1846–1920)
jeweler
  Étienne Maurice Falconet
(1716–1791)
Rococo sculptor
 
Cupid menacing, 1757
  Vladimir Favorsky
(1886–1964)
graphic designer, woodcut illustrator, stage designer, painter
(1920s photo)
 
Self-portrait, Indian ink, 1912
  Konstantin Flavitsky
(1830–1866)
neoclassical painter
(portrait by Fyodor Bronnikov, 1866)
 
Pharaoh's daughter finding baby Moses
 
Children of Jacob sell their brother Joseph, 1855
  Pavel Fedotov
(1815–1852)
realist painter
 
Breakfast of an Aristocrate
 
Encore, again Encore!
 
Young widow, 1851

G

Portrait Person
  Naum Gabo
(1890–1977)
constructivist sculptor, kinetic artist
 
Fountain by St Thomas' Hospital, London
 
Gestileerde bloem, a sculpture in Rotterdam
Nikolai Galakhov
(1928–)
landscape painter
Fyodor Gavrilov
painter
  Nikolai Ge
(1831–1894)
history painter, realist, portraitist
(portrait by Nikolai Yaroshenko)
 
Peter the Great interrogating Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich at Peterhof Palace, 1871
 
Leo Tolstoy, 1882
 
Head of Jesus, 1893
Mikhail Gerasimov
(1907–1970)
archaeologist, anthropologist, forensic sculptor
 
Reconstruction of Tamerlane
Ivan Godlevsky
(1908–1998)
  Soviet Union
  Russian Federation
landscape painter
Feofan Grek
(c. 1340 – c. 1410)
medieval fresco and icon-painter
  Alexander Grigoriev
(1891–1961)
realist painter, public figure
 
Birch Grove, 1959
  Elena Guro
(1877–1913)
futurist painter
 
Portrait of Mikhail Matyushin, 1903
 
Little Deer, 1908/09

H

Portrait Person
  Alexei Harlamov
(1840–1925)
painter, portraitist
 
A Russian Beauty
 
Literary Pursuits of a Young Lady
 
The Flower Girls
  Viktor Hartmann
(1834–1873)
painter, ornamentist, architect, Russian Revival style artist
 
Plan for a City Gate in Kiev
 
Naval Russia's pavilion at the 1873 World Fair, design

I

Portrait Person
  Alexander Ivanov
(1806–1858)
neoclassical painter


(portrait by Sergey Postnikov)

 
The Appearance of Christ to Mary Magdalene, 1834-36
 
The Appearance of Christ before the People, 1836—57
  Sergei Ivanov
(1864–1910)
history painter, realist, graphic artist, illustrator
(portrait by O.E. Braz, 1909)
 
Living of East Slavs
 
Monomachos' Princely Congress at Uvetichi
 
At the Southern Border of Muscovy
Anton Ivanov-Goluboy
(1818–1863)
neoclassical landscape painter
 
Italian peasants
 
Fishing Vessels off a Jetty, Kostroma, 1839
 
Gorge

J

Portrait Person
  Valery Jacobi
(1834–1902)
neoclassical and realist painter
 
Serene holiday of a beggar, 1860
 
Prisoners Stopping Place, 1861
 
Jesters at the Court of Empress Anna, 1872
  Alexandre Jacovleff
(1887–1938)
neoclassical painter, draughtsman, designer, etcher
(self-portrait Arlecchino and Pierrot,1914)
 
Kabuki dancer

K

Portrait Person
Ilya Kabakov
(1933–)
conceptual installation artist, painter, illustrator
 
Installation in Münster, Germany
 
The fallen Chandelier in Zürich, Switzerland
 
Wordless, on the German-Dutch border
  Wassily Kandinsky
(1866–1944)
abstractionist painter
 
Munich-Schwabing with the Church of St. Ursula, 1908
 
Composition VII, 1913
Mikhail Kaneev
(1923–1983)
cityscape and landscape painter
  Nikolay Kasatkin
(1859–1930)
realist painter
 
Rival Ladies, 1890
 
Miner girl, 1894
 
Who?, 1897
  Ivan Khrutsky
(1810–1885)
still life and genre painter, portraitist
(self-portrait, 1883)
 
Flowers and fruits
 
Portrait of a boy
 
Still life, 1839
  Orest Kiprensky
(1782–1836)
romantic painter, portraitist
(self-portrait, 1828)
 
Yevgraf Davydov, 1809
Vyacheslav Klykov
(1939–2006)
monument sculptor
 
A bell-tower in Prokhorovka, monument to the Battle of Kursk
Boris Kocheishvili
(1940–)
painter and poet
Stepan Kolesnikoff
(1879–1955)
landscape painter
Sergei Arksentevich Kolyada
(1907–1996)
painter, landscape artist, Russian avant-garde, portraitist
(Self Portrait, 1934)
Sergey Konenkov
(1874–1971)
sculptor
(portrait by Pavel Korin)
 
Kore, 1912
 
Bather, 1917
 
The Poor, 1917
  Pavel Korin
(1892–1967)
history painter, portraitist, art restorer
(portrait by Mikhail Nesterov)
 
Alexander Nevsky, 1932, on 1967 postage stamp
  Konstantin Korovin
(1861–1932)
impressionist painter
(portrait by Valentin Serov, 1891)
 
Two Ladies On a Terrace, 1911
 
Pier in Gurzuf, 1914
Nikolai Kuzmin
(1938–)
impressionist painter
Mikhail Kozlovsky
(1753–1802)
neoclassical sculptor
 
Cupids, a draft
 
Samson fountain in Peterhof Palace, 1800-02
  Ivan Kramskoi
(1837–1887)
painter, portraitist, arts critic
(self-portrait)
 
Unknown Woman, 1883
 
Alexander III, 1886
  Arkhip Kuindzhi
(1842–1910)
landscape painter
(portrait by Viktor Vasnetsov, 1869)
 
The Ladoga Lake, 1873
 
A birch grove, 1879
 
Elbrus, 1890-1895
  Boris Kustodiev
(1878–1927)
painter, stage designer
(self-portrait, 1912)
 
The Merchant's Wife, 1918
 
Bolshevik, 1920
 
Russian Venus, 1926

L

Portrait Person
  Gennady Ladyzhensky
(1852–1916)
landscape painter
(Portrait by Nikolai Kuznetsov)
 
Landscape near Kologriv
 
Chickens
 
Odessa
  Mikhail Larionov
(1881–1964)
avant-garde painter
(self-portrait, 1910)
 
Acacias in Spring, 1904
 
Red Rayonism, 1913
 
Bull's Head, 1913
Klavdy Lebedev
(1852–1916)
history painter
 
Svyatoslav's meeting with Emperor John
 
Dance
 
Sergei Lednev-Schukin

(1875–1961)

landscape painter, impressionist

 
Church in snow (New York Metropolitan Museum)
 
Chapel Zvenigorod
 
Frosty morning at abbey gate
  Aristarkh Lentulov
(1882–1943)
avant-garde painter
(self-portrait, 1915)
 
Skybell (Nebozvon)
 
Portrait of Artist's Wife and Daughter
  Alexei Leonov
(1934–2019)
cosmonaut and painter
 
Selenodesists (On the Moon) on 1967 post stamp
 
Human spacewalk on 1972 post stamp (with Andrey Sokolov)
 
Lunokhod 1 on 1972 post stamp (with Andrey Sokolov)
  Isaac Levitan
(1860–1900)
landscape painter
(self-portrait, 1880)
 
Birch Forest, 1885-1889
 
Over Eternal Peace, 1894
 
March, 1895
  Rafail Levitsky
(1847–1940)
romantic, genre, impressionist painter, photographer
(portrait by Ilya Repin, 1878)
 
Bridge in the Woods, 1885-86
 
View of Mazzolada di Lison, Veneto, Italy, 1896
 
Morning Impression along a Canal in Venice, Veneto, Italy, 1896
  Dmitry Levitzky
(1735–1822)
painter, portraitist
(self-portrait, 1783)
 
Prokofiy Demidov, 1773
 
Duchess Ursula Mniszech, 1782
  El Lissitzky
(1890–1941)
avant-garde painter, photographer, typographer
(self-photo, 1924)
 
Suprematistische Komposition, 1919
 
Proun 93 (Konischer), 1923
 
Proun, c. 1925
  Vladimir Lisunov
(1940–2000)
nonconformist, mystic symbolist painter
 
The fugitive, 1976. Canvas, oil. 108x187.
 
Epiphany,1996. Canvas, oil. 90х118.
 
Forest visions, 1995. Canvas, oil. 60х81.
  Mikhail Lomonosov
(1711–1765)
polymath, scientist, writer, artist
(portrait by L. S. Miropol'sky, 1787, after G. Prenner)
 
A ship model
 
Peter I mosaic, 1754
 
Battle of Poltava mosaic, 1762-64
Anton Losenko
(1737–1773)
neoclassical painter, portraitist
 
Ivan Shuvalov, 1760
 
Fyodor Volkov, 1763
 
Vladimir and Rogneda, 1770

M

Portrait Person
  Konstantin Makovsky
(1839–1915)
history painter, portraitist
(self-portrait, 1856)
 
Tamara and Demon, 1889
 
Proclamation of Kuzma Minin, 1896
  Kazimir Malevich
(1878–1935)
suprematist avant-garde painter
(self-portrait, 1912)
 
Englishman in Moscow, 1914
 
Black Square, 1915
 
Mower, 1930
  Sergey Malyutin
(1859–1937)
painter, folk artist, architect, portraitist
(self-portrait)
 
The first Russian matryoshka doll (carved by Zvyozdochkin), 1890
 
Pertsov Building design, Moscow, 1906-1910
  Ivan Martos
(1754–1835)
neoclassical sculptor
(portrait by Alexander Varnek, 1819)
 
Minin and Pozharsky on Red Square, Moscow, 1818
Michael Matusevitch
(1929–2007)
painter
(self-portrait)
  Vladimir Mayakovsky
(1878–1930)
avant-garde poet, playwright and propaganda artist
(1912 photo)
 
Costumes draft for Mystery Buff, 1919
  Leonid Mezheritski
(1930–2007)
painter
landscape, still-life, portrait
(Self Portrait with Dog, 1968.
Art Museum Chernigov, Ukraine)
 
Beach of Bolshoi Fontan, 1961
 
Springtime Sea Surf, 1970s
Yevgeniy Migunov
(1921–2004)
Illustrator
  Mikhail Mikeshin
(1835–1896)
neoclassical sculptor
(portrait by Ilya Repin, 1888)
  Vera Mukhina
(1889–1953)
sculptor, social realist
(from portrait by Mikhail Nesterov, 1940)
 
A man with a sword, 1916

N

Portrait Person
  Ernst Neizvestny
(1925–2016)
sculptor
(left on photo, receiving Order of Honor from Vladimir Putin, 2000)
 
The Golden Child, 1995
 
Lotus Flower at the Aswan Dam in Egypt, 1971
  Mikhail Nesterov
(1862–1942)
religious symbolist painter, portraitist
(portrait by Viktor Vasnetsov, 1926)
 
Holy Rus', 1901-06
 
Philosophers Pavel Florensky and Sergei Bulgakov, 1917
Gury Nikitin
(1620/25–1691)
fresco and icon-painter, illustrator
 
The head of John the Baptist, c. 1680
 
The feast of the Cross, c. 1680
Ivan Nikitin
(1690–1742)
painter, portraitist
 
Princess Elizabeth, 1712-1713
 
Hetman (Pavlo Polubotok?), 1720es
 
Peter the Great on his deathbed, 1725
  Aleksandr Nikolayev
(1897–1957)
painter
  Igor Novikov
(1961–)
painter, member of Russian Academy of Arts
 
Diamond Grove, 2007
 
Goodbye Russia, 2003
 
Miss Switzerland

O

Portrait Person
  Alexander Opekushin
(1838–1923)
monument sculptor, architecture decorator
 
Pushkin, Moscow, 1880
 
Karl Baer, Tartu, 1886
 
Lemontov Monument, Pyatigorsk
Boris Orlovsky
(1793–1837)
neoclassical monument sculptor
 
The angel on the Alexander Column, Saint Petersburg
Sergei Osipov
(1915–1985)
landscape and still life painter
 
Cornflowers, 1976

P

Portrait Person
  Andrey Pashkevich
(1945–2011)
cinematographer, film director & producer, and painter
Gennady Pasko
(1940–)
impressionist painter
  Leonid Pasternak
(1862–1945)
post-impressionist painter, graphic artist, illustrator
(self-portrait, 1908)
 
Moscow in Winter, 1912
 
E. Levina, 1916
  Andrew Pavlovsky
(1962–)
expressionist painter, graphic designer
 
The beloved, 1994
 
The blue bottle, 1998
 
Trees at the river, 2001
  Vasily Perov
(1834–1882)
realist painter
(self-portrait, 1870)
 
Troika, 1866
 
The Hunters at Rest, 1871
 
A Governess Arriving at a Merchant's House
  Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin
(1878–1939)
symbolist painter
(self-portrait, 1918)
 
Bathing of a Red Horse, 1912
 
On the Line of Fire, 1916
 
Petrograd Madonna, 1918
Ilyas Phaizulline
(1950–)
classical realist
  Stepan Pimenov
(1784–1833)
sculptor
(self portrait)
 
Statue of Vladimir the Great, 1807
 
Hercules and Antaeus, 1809
 
Chariot of Glory, 1827
  Vasily Polenov
(1844–1927)
landscape painter, realist
(portrait by Ilya Repin, 1877)
 
A courtyard in Moscow, 1878
 
Grandma's garden
 
Caesar's amusement
  Andrei Popov
(1832–1896)
realist painter
(self-portrait, c.1864)
 
An Eating House, 1859
 
Demyan's Fish Soup, 1865
 
Easter Fair in Tula, 1873
  Lyubov Popova
(1889–1924)
cubist abstractionist painter
 
Air+Man+Space, 1912
 
The Pianist, 1914
 
Portrait of a Philosopher, 1915
  Vasili Pukirev
(1832–1890)
realist painter
(self-portrait, 1868)
 
The Unequal Marriage, 1862
 
Dowry

R

Portrait Person
Charles Radoff
(1894–1986)
landscape painter, neo-impressionist
  Ilya Repin
(1844–1930)
history painter, realist, portraitist
(self-portrait 1878)
 
What freedom!, 1903
  Alexander Rodchenko
(1891–1956)
avant-garde painter, sculptor, photographer, graphic designer
(1935 photo)
 
Dance, 1913
 
Portrait of N. A. Rusakov, 1915
 
Workers' Club, 1925
  Nicholas Roerich
(1874–1947)
painter, philosopher, culture scientist, traveler, public figure
(portrait by Boris Kustodiev, 1913)
 
And we see, 1922
 
Monhegan, Maine, 1922
Fyodor Rokotov
(1736–1809)
painter, portraitist
 
Count I. G. Orlov, c.1762-1765
 
Catherine II, 1770
 
Lady in a Pink Dress, 1770s
Andrei Rublev
(c. 1360–1430)
medieval fresco and icon-painter
(Russian Icon of St. Andrei Rublev, holding one of his works)
 
Trinity, c. 1410
Alexandra Rozenman
(1971–)
surreal Russian American painter
Lev Russov
(1926–1987)
portrait, genre, and still life painter
  Andrei Ryabushkin
(1861–1904)
history painter
(portrait by Vasiliy Mate)
 
Tsar Mikhail Feodorovich and the Boyar Duma, 1893
 
Merchant Family in the 17th century, 1896
 
A Young Man Breaking into the Girls' Dance, 1902

S

Portrait Person
Vasily Sadovnikov
(1800–1879)
perspective painter
 
Palace Square, c. 1847
 
Arch of the General Staff Building, 1956
Alexander Samokhvalov
(1894–1971)

easel and monumental painter, graphic artist, book illustrator
Bogdan Saltanov
(1626–1703)
icon-painter, illustrator, portraitist
 
Cross of Kiy of the Crucifix church in Moscow Kremlin, 1670s
 
Feodor III of Russia (attribution disputed), 1685
  Konstantin Savitsky
(1844–1905)
realist painter
(portrait by Nikolai Grandkovsky, 1902)
 
Repairing the Railroad , 1874
 
Morning in a Pine Forest by Ivan Shishkin, 1886 (Savitsky painted the bears)
 
To the War, 1888
  Alexei Savrasov
(1830–1897)
lyrical landscape painter
(portrait by Iosif Volkov)
 
The Rooks Have Come Back, 1871
 
Rasputitsa (Sea of Mud), 1894
Alexander Semionov
(1922–1984)
cityscape and landscape painter
  Zinaida Serebriakova
(1884–1967)
painter, social realist
(self-portrait At the Dressing-Table, 1909)
 
Bath-house, 1913
 
Harvest, 1915