Abram Efimovich Arkhipov (Russian: Абрам Ефимович Архипов) (August 27 [O.S. August 15] 1862 – September 25, 1930) was a Russian realist artist, who was a member of the art collective The Wanderers as well as the of Russian Artists. Themes that occur within his artwork include the lives of Russian women, with some of his realist paintings depicting their grim daily realities. Arkhipov also painted several paintings of peasant women in rural Russia, depicting them in vibrant traditional dresses and national costumes. Like others in the of Russian Artists, Arkhipov also painted regularly en plein air, travelling and painting scenes the North of Russia and the White Sea coast. Arkhipov died in Moscow in 1930.

 Nikolai Nikolaevich Ge (or Ghe, sometimes spelled Gay, Russian: Николай Николаевич Ге; 27 February [O.S. 15 February] 1831 – 13 June [O.S. 1 June] 1894) was a Russian realist painter famous for his works on historical and religious motifs. The fate of many of his works remains a mystery. At the end of his life Ge bequeathed all of his works to his Swiss benefactor Beatrice de Vattville (Russian: Беатриса де Ваттвилль, владелица замка Жэнжэн в кантоне Во в Швейцарии) in ex for a small rent during his lifetime. She died in 1952 but none of Ge's work were found in her castle.

Ivan Nikolaevich Kramskoi (June 8 (O.S. May 27), 1837 – April 6 (O.S. March 24), 1887) (Russian: Иван Николаевич Крамской) was a Russian painter and art critic. He was the intellectual leader of the Russian democratic art movement 1860–1880. He was originally a poor petty-bourgeois family. 1857 to 1863 he studied at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts; he reacted against academic art, and he was an initiator of the "revolt of fourteen" which ended with an expulsion the Academy of arts of its graduates, who organized Artel of Artists ("Артель художников").