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

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PortraitPerson
Léon Bakst

painter, stage and costume designer
File:Costume of Cleopatra for Ida Rubinstain.jpg|thumb|center|70px|Costume of Cléopâtre for Ida Rubinstein, 1909
Maria Bashkirtseva

painter
Nikolai Baskakov

portrait, genre, and landscape painter
Alexandre Benois

painter, stage designer
File:Alexandre Benois 004.jpg|thumb|center|80px|Illustration to Pushkin's Bronze Horseman, 1904File:Petrutxca de Fokine-1911.jpg|thumb|center|120px|Set for Stravinsky's Petrushka, 1911


Expressive abstraction painter
Ivan Bilibin

painter, illustrator, stage designer
File:Firebird.jpg|thumb|center|80px|Ivan Tsarevich catching the Firebird's feather, 1899File:Solovej.jpg|thumb|center|80px| Ilya Muromets and Nightingale the Robber
Ivan Bogdanov

genre painter
Nikolai Bogdanov-Belsky

realist painter
Alexey Bogolyubov

landscape and seascape painter
Victor Borisov-Musatov

symbolist painter
File:Borisovmusatov dafnisandcloe.JPG|100px|center|thumb|Daphnis and Chloe, 1901
Vladimir Borovikovsky

painter, portraitist
File:Catherine II walking by V.Borovikovskiy.jpg|thumb|center|60px|Catherine II in Tsarskoe Selo, 1794
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
File:Ta, shcho spivaie Amura.jpg|thumb|center|70px|Maenad giving drink to Cupid, 1828

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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
File:ChistyakovP SofVitovNaSvGRM.jpg|center|thumb|100px|Sophia of Lithuania at the Wedding of Vasily the Blind, 1861
Peter Clodt

sculptor
File:Anichkov bridge horse tamer 3.jpg|thumb|center|70px|The 3rd group of Anichkov Bridge, Saint PetersburgFile:Krylov summer garden.jpg|center|thumb|75px|Ivan Krylov in Summer Garden, Saint PetersburgFile:Isaak square.jpg|center|thumb|130px|Nicholas I on Isaac's Square, Saint Petersburg
Mikhail Clodt von Jürgensburg

realist painter
File:KlodtM VolgaPodSimbirskIRK.jpg|thumb|center|100px|The Volga near Simbirsk, 1881

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PortraitPerson
Mechislav Dalkevich

artist and illustrator
Vasily Demut-Malinovsky

neoclassical sculptor
File:Vladimir by klodt.jpg|80px|center|thumb|Vladimir the Great in Kiev File:Колесница Победы на арке Главного штаба.jpg|135px|center|thumb|The Chariot of Victory on the Triumphal Arch of General Staff Building, Saint PetersburgFile:Narva arc.jpg|140px|center|thumb|The Chariot of Victory on the Narva Triumphal Gates, Saint Petersburg
Alexander Deyneka

social realist painter, graphic artist, sculptor
Dionisy

medieval fresco and icon-painter
File:Odigitriya Smolenskaya Dionisiy.jpg|85px|thumb|center|Hodegetria of SmolenskFile:Descent into Hell by Dionisius and workshop.jpg|85px|thumb|center|Christ's Harrowing of Hell
Nikolai Dmitriev-Orenburgsky

genre and battle artist
File:Zahvat grivickogo reduta.jpg|thumb|center|100px|Capture of the Grivitsa redoubt at Plevna, 1885[File:Dmitriev-Orenburgsky-Osman-pasha.jpg|thumb|center|100px|Introduction of the Captive Osman Pasha to Alexander II at Plevna, 1898]
Pyotr Drozhdin

portraitist
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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

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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
File:Konstantin Flavitsky 001.jpg|100px|center|thumb|Children of Jacob sell their brother Joseph, 1855
Longin Frikke

landscape painter
File:Фрикке Лонгин Христианович - Вид на мызе Фалль графа А. Х. Бенкендорфа близ Ревеля.jpg|135px|center|thumb|View of the Fal estate of Count A. H. Benckendorff near Reval, 1837

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PortraitPerson
Naum Gabo

constructivist sculptor, kinetic artist
Nikolai Galakhov

landscape painter
Fyodor Gavrilov
painter
Nikolai Ge

history painter, realist, portraitist
File:Peter the Great Interrogating the Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich.jpg|thumb|center|120px|Peter the Great interrogating Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich at Peterhof Palace, 1871
Mikhail Gerasimov

archaeologist, anthropologist, forensic sculptor
Ivan Godlevsky
Soviet Union

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PortraitPerson
Alexei Harlamov

painter, portraitist
Viktor Hartmann

painter, ornamentist, architect, Russian Revival style artist

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PortraitPerson
Alexander Ivanov

neoclassical painter
File:Alexander Ivanov - Christ's Appearance to Mary Magdalene after the Resurrection - Google Art Project.jpg|thumb|center|130px|The Appearance of Christ to Mary Magdalene, 1834-36
Sergei Ivanov

history painter, realist, graphic artist, illustrator
Mikhail Ivanov

landscape painter, watercolorist
[File:Russian fleet in the Bosphorus Strait.jpg|150px|center|thumb|Russian squadron under the command of Vice Admiral F. F. Ushakov, sailing through the strait of Constantinople on 8 September 1798]File:Mikhail Ivanov — View of three churches against the backdrop of Mount Ararat in Armenia.jpg|140px|center|thumb|View of three churches against the backdrop of Mount Ararat in Armenia
Anton Ivanov-Goluboy

neoclassical landscape painter

J

PortraitPerson
Valery Jacobi

neoclassical and realist painter
File:Jesters of empress Anna Ioanovna by V.Jacobi.jpg|thumb|center|130px|Jesters at the Court of Empress Anna, 1872
Alexandre Jacovleff

neoclassical painter, draughtsman, designer, etcher
File:Yakovlev Shalyapin.jpg|90px|center|thumb|Feodor Chaliapin as Don Quichotte, 1916

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
File:ProkhorovkaMonument.jpg|70px|center|thumb|A bell-tower in Prokhorovka, monument to the Battle of Kursk
Boris Kocheishvili

painter and poet
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Stepan Kolesnikoff

landscape painter
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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
File:Suvorov spb.jpg|60px|center|thumb|Alexander Suvorov as Mars (Saint Petersburg)|Mars], Saint Petersburg, 1799—1801File:Samson-Peterhof.jpg|80px|center|thumb|Samson fountain in Peterhof Palace, 1800-02
Ivan Kramskoi

painter, portraitist, arts critic
Jan Kryjevski

painter
Arkhip Kuindzhi

landscape painter
Boris Kustodiev

painter, stage designer

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PortraitPerson-
Gennady Ladyzhensky

landscape painter
Mikhail Larionov

avant-garde painter
Klavdy Lebedev

history painter
Emperor John.jpg|center|thumb|70px|Svyatoslav's meeting with Emperor John]-
Sergei Lednev-Schukin

landscape painter, impressionist
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Aristarkh Lentulov

avant-garde painter
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Alexei Leonov

cosmonaut and painter
Isaac Levitan

landscape painter
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Rafail Levitsky

romantic, genre, impressionist painter, photographer
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Dmitry Levitzky

painter, portraitist
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El Lissitzky

avant-garde painter, photographer, typographer
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Vladimir Lisunov

nonconformist, mystic symbolist painter
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Mikhail Lomonosov

polymath, scientist, writer, artist
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Anton Losenko

neoclassical painter, portraitist
Vladimir and Rogneda.jpg|80px|thumb|center|Vladimir and Rogneda, 1770]-

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PortraitPerson
Konstantin Makovsky

history painter, portraitist
Kazimir Malevich

suprematist avant-garde painter
Sergey Malyutin

painter, folk artist, architect, portraitist
File:First matryoshka museum doll open.jpg|thumb|center|120px|The first Russian matryoshka doll , 1890
Ivan Martos

neoclassical sculptor
File:Moscow 05-2017 img07 Monument to Minin and Pozharsky.jpg|60px|center|thumb|Minin and Pozharsky on Red Square, Moscow, 1818File:Ukraine, Odessa, Duke statue.jpg|70px|center|thumb|Duc de Richelieu, Odessa, 1828File:Taganrog alexanderImonument.jpg|80px|center|thumb|Alexander I, Taganrog, 1830
Michael Matusevitch

painter
Vladimir Mayakovsky

avant-garde poet, playwright and propaganda artist
File:Маяковский. ОКНА РОСТА.jpg|100px|center|thumb|Rosta Windows agitpropFile:Plakat mayakowski gross.jpg|90px|center|thumb|Rosta Windows agitprop
Leonid Mezheritski

painter
landscape, still-life, portrait
Yevgeniy Migunov

Illustrator
Mikhail Mikeshin

neoclassical sculptor
File:Nowgorod 2005 Millenium Monument.jpg|80px|center|thumb|Millennium of Russia in Veliky Novgorod, 1859File:SPB Monument of Catherine II 1890-1900.jpg|85px|center|thumb|Catherine II in Saint Petersburg, 1873File:Denkmal bohdan chmelnyzkyj.jpg|90px|center|thumb|Bohdan Khmelnytsky in Kiev, 1888
Efim Minin

Byelorussian artist and graphic artist of Jewish origin
Vera Mukhina

sculptor, social realist

N

PortraitPerson
Ernst Neizvestny

sculptor
File:Lotus Flower sculpture full.jpg|thumb|100px|center|Lotus Flower at the Aswan Dam in Egypt, 1971
Mikhail Nesterov

religious symbolist painter, portraitist
File:Nesterov Florensky Bulgakov.jpg|thumb|80px|center|Philosophers Pavel Florensky and Sergei Bulgakov, 1917
Gury Nikitin

fresco and icon-painter, illustrator
Ivan Nikitin

painter, portraitist
File:Nikitin Getman.jpg|thumb|80px|center|Hetman, 1720es
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
File:Monument to K. E. Baer.jpg|80px|center|thumb|Karl Baer, Tartu, 1886File:Памятник Лермонтову М.Ю.JPG|80px|center|thumb|Lemontov Monument, Pyatigorsk
Boris Orlovsky

neoclassical monument sculptor
File:Koetoezov kazan.jpg|80px|center|thumb|Mikhail Kutuzov in front of Kazan Cathedral, Saint PetersburgFile:Barclay de tolly.jpg|80px|center|thumb|Michael Barclay de Tolly in front of Kazan Cathedral, Saint PetersburgFile:Alexander Column top.jpg|90px|center|thumb|The angel on the Alexander Column, Saint Petersburg
Sergei Osipov

landscape and still life painter

P

PortraitPerson
Andrey Pashkevich

cinematographer, film director & producer, and painter
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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
File:Геракл и Антей01.jpg|100px|center|thumb|Hercules and Antaeus, 1809
Vasily Polenov

landscape painter, realist
Andrei Popov

realist painter
Lyubov Popova

cubist abstractionist painter
Vasili Pukirev

realist painter
File:Filipp and Ivan IV.jpg|70px|center|thumb|Metropolitan Philip and Ivan IV

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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
File:N. Roerich - Monhegan. Maine - Google Art Project.jpg|center|thumb|120px|Monhegan, Maine, 1922
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
File:Tsar boyar duma.jpg|center|thumb|120px|Tsar Mikhail Feodorovich and the Boyar Duma, 1893

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PortraitPerson
Vasily Sadovnikov

perspective painter
Alexander Samokhvalov

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

icon-painter, illustrator, portraitist
File:KiyskiyKrest.jpg|60px|center|thumb|Cross of Kiy of the Crucifix church in Moscow Kremlin, 1670s-
Konstantin Savitsky

realist painter
File:Utro v sosnovom lesu.jpg|120px|center|thumb|Morning in a Pine Forest by Ivan Shishkin, 1886
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
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Pyotr Sokolov

portraitist
Konstantin Somov

painter, graphic artist, illustrator, portraitist
Grigory Soroka

genre painter, portraitist
File:View on the dam in Spasskoe by G.Soroka.jpg|110px|center|thumb|Dam in Spasskoye, Tambov Guberniya, 1840s
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

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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

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PortraitPerson
Grigory Ugryumov

neoclassical history painter
File:Capture of Kazan, Ivan the Terrible.jpg|80px|center|thumb|Capture of Kazan by Ivan the Terrible, before 1800
Yevgeny Ukhnalyov

painter, illustrator, designer, heraldic artist
Simon Ushakov

icon-painter

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PortraitPerson
Nina Tokhtaman Valetova

metaphysical realism, fantasy, and visionary painter
Feodor Vasilyev

lyrical landscape painter
Apollinary Vasnetsov

history painter, stage designer
File:Prizvanievaryagov.jpg|120px|center|thumb|Arrival of Rurik to LadogaFile:Oprichnik by Vasnetsov.jpg|120px|center|thumb|Set for Tchaikovsky's opera The Oprichnik, 1911
Viktor Vasnetsov

mythology and history painter, Russian Revival style artist
Alexey Venetsianov

genre painter
Vasily Vereshchagin

battle painter
Pyotr Vereshchagin

landscape and cityscape painter
[File:Piotr Veretschagin-Tiflis.jpg|135px|center|thumb|View of the Palace of Grand Duke Mikhail Nikolayevich, Viceroy of His Imperial Majesty in Tiflis]
Ivan Vishnyakov

portraitist
Adrian Volkov

genre painter
Ekaterina Vorona

painter
Mikhail Vrubel

symbolist painter
Yevgeny Vuchetich

monument sculptor
File:Swords-Plowshares.jpg|140px|center|thumb|Let Us Beat Swords into Plowshares in the UN garden, New York City, 1957

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PortraitPerson
Marianne von Werefkin

avant-garde expressionist painter
Constantin Alexandrovich Westchiloff

impressionist painter
[File:Constantin Westchiloff - The Askold Cruiser.jpg|140px|thumb|center|Breakthrough of the Cruiser Askold in 1904 in the Yellow Sea, 1906]

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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
File:Karp Zolotaryov Theotokos Late 17th century.jpg|70px|center|thumb|Theotokos and The Child
Alexey Zubov

etcher
File:Zubov1715.jpg|120px|thumb|center|Swedish Ships Brought to Saint Petersburg after the Battle of Gangut, 1715