The Russian avant-garde painter and art theoretician, Kazimir Severinovich Malevich, is revered as the pioneer of geometric abstract art and the founder of the art movement Suprematism.
The revolutionary of Russian art was born Kazimierz Malewicz on February 23, 1878, in Ukraine to parents of Polish origin.
The Russian painter and stage designer, Boris Mikhaylovich Kustodiev, is honored among those innovative artists who worked to create a new socialist culture in the early 20th century.
Born in Astrakhan on March 7, 1878, into the family of a professor of philosophy, history of literature, and logic, Kustodiev lost his father at a young age.
Vasilyevich Vereshchagin is acclaimed as one of the most distinguished Russian battle painters of the time, and one of the first Russian artists to be widely recognized outside his home country.
Regarded as one of the great master painters of Orientalism, Vereshchagin was born on October 26, 1842, in an aristocrat family, in the city of Cherepovets in the Vologda region of Russia.