List of Russian artists


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.

Alphabetical list

B

PortraitPerson
Léon Bakst

painter, stage and costume designer
Maria Bashkirtseva

painter
Nikolai Baskakov

portrait, genre, and landscape painter
Alexandre Benois

painter, stage designer


Expressive abstraction painter
Ivan Bilibin

painter, illustrator, stage designer
Ivan Bogdanov

genre painter
Nikolai Bogdanov-Belsky

realist painter
Alexey Bogolyubov

landscape and seascape painter
Victor Borisov-Musatov

symbolist painter
Vladimir Borovikovsky

painter, portraitist
Osip Braz

painter, portraitist
Alexander Briullov

neoclassical architect and painter, portraitist
Karl Bryullov

neoclassical painter
Alexey Brodovitch

painter, illustrator, graphic designer, photographer
Feodor Bruni

neoclassical painter

C

PortraitPerson
Marc Chagall

painter, illustrator, stained glass artist, stage designer, ceramics and tapestries designer
Mikhail Chapiro

artist, painter
Nikolai Chekhov

painter, illustrator
Mihail Chemiakin

sculptor, painter, stage designer
Pavel Chistyakov

painter, arts teacher
Peter Clodt

sculptor
Mikhail Clodt von Jürgensburg

realist painter

D

PortraitPerson
Mechislav Dalkevich

artist and illustrator
Vasily Demut-Malinovsky

neoclassical sculptor
Alexander Deyneka

social realist painter, graphic artist, sculptor
Dionisy

medieval fresco and icon-painter
Nikolai Dmitriev-Orenburgsky

genre and battle artist
Pyotr Drozhdin

portraitist
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E

PortraitPerson
Alexander Viktorovich Egorov

Symbolist painter
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Stepan Erzia

Art Nouveau sculptor, woodcut artist
Andrey Esionov

portraitist, cityscape painter, graphic artist
Mikhail Evstafiev

avant-garde painter, writer, photographer

F

PortraitPerson
Peter Carl Fabergé

jeweler
Étienne Maurice Falconet

Rococo sculptor
Vladimir Favorsky

graphic designer, woodcut illustrator, stage designer, painter
Pavel Fedotov

realist painter
Konstantin Flavitsky

neoclassical painter
Longin Frikke

landscape painter

G

PortraitPerson
Naum Gabo

constructivist sculptor, kinetic artist
Nikolai Galakhov

landscape painter
Fyodor Gavrilov
painter
Nikolai Ge

history painter, realist, portraitist
Mikhail Gerasimov

archaeologist, anthropologist, forensic sculptor
Ivan Godlevsky
Soviet Union

H

PortraitPerson
Alexei Harlamov

painter, portraitist
Viktor Hartmann

painter, ornamentist, architect, Russian Revival style artist

I

PortraitPerson
Alexander Ivanov

neoclassical painter
Sergei Ivanov

history painter, realist, graphic artist, illustrator
Mikhail Ivanov

landscape painter, watercolorist
Anton Ivanov-Goluboy

neoclassical landscape painter

J

PortraitPerson
Valery Jacobi

neoclassical and realist painter
Alexandre Jacovleff

neoclassical painter, draughtsman, designer, etcher

K

PortraitPerson
Ilya Kabakov

conceptual installation artist, painter, illustrator
Fyodor Kamensky

sculptor
Wassily Kandinsky

abstractionist painter
Mikhail Kaneev

cityscape and landscape painter
Nikolay Kasatkin

realist painter
Ivan Khrutsky

still life and genre painter, portraitist
Orest Kiprensky

romantic painter, portraitist
Vyacheslav Klykov

monument sculptor
Boris Kocheishvili

painter and poet
-
Stepan Kolesnikoff

landscape painter
-
Sergei Arksentevich Kolyada

painter, landscape artist, Russian avant-garde, portraitist
Boris Kondrashin

painter
Sergey Konenkov

sculptor
Pavel Korin

history painter, portraitist, art restorer
Konstantin Korovin

impressionist painter
Alexei Korzukhin

genre painter
Nikolai Kuzmin

impressionist painter
Mikhail Kozlovsky

neoclassical sculptor
Ivan Kramskoi

painter, portraitist, arts critic
Jan Kryjevski

painter
Arkhip Kuindzhi

landscape painter
Boris Kustodiev

painter, stage designer

L

PortraitPerson-
Gennady Ladyzhensky

landscape painter
Mikhail Larionov

avant-garde painter
Klavdy Lebedev

history painter
-
Sergei Lednev-Schukin

landscape painter, impressionist
-
Aristarkh Lentulov

avant-garde painter
-
Alexei Leonov

cosmonaut and painter
Isaac Levitan

landscape painter
-
Rafail Levitsky

romantic, genre, impressionist painter, photographer
-
Dmitry Levitzky

painter, portraitist
-
El Lissitzky

avant-garde painter, photographer, typographer
-
Vladimir Lisunov

nonconformist, mystic symbolist painter
-
Mikhail Lomonosov

polymath, scientist, writer, artist
-
Anton Losenko

neoclassical painter, portraitist
-

M

PortraitPerson
Konstantin Makovsky

history painter, portraitist
Kazimir Malevich

suprematist avant-garde painter
Sergey Malyutin

painter, folk artist, architect, portraitist
Ivan Martos

neoclassical sculptor
Michael Matusevitch

painter
Vladimir Mayakovsky

avant-garde poet, playwright and propaganda artist
Leonid Mezheritski

painter
landscape, still-life, portrait
Yevgeniy Migunov

Illustrator
Mikhail Mikeshin

neoclassical sculptor
Efim Minin

Byelorussian artist and graphic artist of Jewish origin
Vera Mukhina

sculptor, social realist

N

PortraitPerson
Ernst Neizvestny

sculptor
Mikhail Nesterov

religious symbolist painter, portraitist
Gury Nikitin

fresco and icon-painter, illustrator
Ivan Nikitin

painter, portraitist
Aleksandr Nikolayev

painter
Nina Niss-Goldman

sculptor, painter
Igor Novikov

painter, member of Russian Academy of Arts

O

PortraitPerson
Alexander Opekushin

monument sculptor, architecture decorator
Boris Orlovsky

neoclassical monument sculptor
Sergei Osipov

landscape and still life painter

P

PortraitPerson
Andrey Pashkevich

cinematographer, film director & producer, and painter
-
Gennady Pasko

impressionist painter
Leonid Pasternak

post-impressionist painter, graphic artist, illustrator
Joseph Pavlishak

painter and teacher, member of the USSR Union of Artists
Andrew Pavlovsky

expressionist painter, graphic designer
Vasily Perov

realist painter
Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin

symbolist painter
Ilyas Phaizulline

classical realist
Stepan Pimenov

sculptor
Vasily Polenov

landscape painter, realist
Andrei Popov

realist painter
Lyubov Popova

cubist abstractionist painter
Vasili Pukirev

realist painter

R

PortraitPerson
Charles Radoff

landscape painter, neo-impressionist
Ilya Repin

history painter, realist, portraitist
Alexander Rodchenko

avant-garde painter, sculptor, photographer, graphic designer
Nicholas Roerich

painter, philosopher, culture scientist, traveler, public figure
Fyodor Rokotov

painter, portraitist
Andrei Rublev

medieval fresco and icon-painter
Alexandra Rozenman

surreal Russian American painter
Lev Russov

portrait, genre, and still life painter
Andrei Ryabushkin

history painter

S

PortraitPerson
Vasily Sadovnikov

perspective painter
Alexander Samokhvalov

easel and monumental painter, graphic artist, book illustrator
Bogdan Saltanov

icon-painter, illustrator, portraitist
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Konstantin Savitsky

realist painter
Alexei Savrasov

lyrical landscape painter
Alexander Semionov

cityscape and landscape painter
Zinaida Serebriakova

painter, social realist
Valentin Serov

impressionist painter, portraitist
Ivan Shadr

sculptor
Silvestr Shchedrin

neoclassical landscape painter
Georgy Shishkin

painter, portraitist, graphic artist, architect, stamp designer
Ivan Shishkin

landscape painter
Fedot Shubin

neoclassical sculptor
Anatolii Ivanovich Sivkov

easel painter, graphic artist, stage designer
-
Pyotr Sokolov

portraitist
Konstantin Somov

painter, graphic artist, illustrator, portraitist
Grigory Soroka

genre painter, portraitist
Evgraf Semenovich Sorokin

painter, professor
Portrait by Vladimir Makovsky, 1891
Alexei Stepanov

genre painter
Alexander Stupin

painter
Portrait by Alexander Varnek, 1804
Rafael Stupin

painter
Vasily Surikov

history painter

T

PortraitPerson
Nikolai Timkov

landscape painter
Feodor Tolstoy

neoclassical painter, illustrator, medallion and wax-relief artist
Nikolai Tomsky

monument sculptor
Vasily Tropinin

romantic painter, portraitist
Zurab Tsereteli

painter, sculptor, architect
Israel Tsvaygenbaum

painter
Alexander Tyshler

modernist painter, stage designer

U

PortraitPerson
Grigory Ugryumov

neoclassical history painter
Yevgeny Ukhnalyov

painter, illustrator, designer, heraldic artist
Simon Ushakov

icon-painter

V

PortraitPerson
Nina Tokhtaman Valetova

metaphysical realism, fantasy, and visionary painter
Feodor Vasilyev

lyrical landscape painter
Apollinary Vasnetsov

history painter, stage designer
Viktor Vasnetsov

mythology and history painter, Russian Revival style artist
Alexey Venetsianov

genre painter
Vasily Vereshchagin

battle painter
Pyotr Vereshchagin

landscape and cityscape painter
Ivan Vishnyakov

portraitist
Adrian Volkov

genre painter
Ekaterina Vorona

painter
Mikhail Vrubel

symbolist painter
Yevgeny Vuchetich

monument sculptor

W

PortraitPerson
Marianne von Werefkin

avant-garde expressionist painter
Constantin Alexandrovich Westchiloff

impressionist painter

Y

PortraitPerson
Nikolai Yaroshenko

realist, genre and landscape painter, portraitist
Konstantin Yuon

painter, stage designer

Z

PortraitPerson
Nikolai Zagorsky

genre painter
Pyotr Zakharov-Chechenets

painter, portraitist
Karp Zolotaryov

icon-painter, interior designer, wood carver
Alexey Zubov

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