Most Famous Russian Artists

Russia has produced 213 notable artists throughout history, led by Marc Chagall. Rankings are drawn from a cross-verified academic dataset of 152,953 people.

Category All
Citizenship All
MC
Marc Chagall Russian Painter 1887 – 1985
# 601
VM
Vladimir Mayakovsky Russian Artist 1893 – 1930
# 1,108
IR
Ilya Repin Russian Painter 1844 – 1930
# 1,503
IA
Ivan Aivazovsky Russian Painter 1817 – 1900
# 1,841
EL
El Lissitzky Russian Painter 1890 – 1941
# 4,515
MV
Mikhail Vrubel Russian Painter 1856 – 1910
# 5,083
CS
Chaim Soutine Russian Painter 1893 – 1943
# 5,392
VV
Viktor Vasnetsov Russian Painter 1848 – 1926
# 5,816
IL
Isaac Levitan Russian Painter 1860 – 1900
# 7,301
IS
Ivan Shishkin Russian Painter 1832 – 1898
# 8,674
VV
Vasily Vereshchagin Russian Painter 1842 – 1904
# 8,900
AV
Alexej von Jawlensky Russian Painter 1864 – 1941
# 10,215
BK
Boris Kustodiev Russian Painter 1878 – 1927
# 10,341
IB
Ivan Bilibin Russian Painter 1876 – 1942
# 10,536
NG
Natalia Goncharova Russian Painter 1881 – 1962
# 10,881
ZS
Zinaida Serebriakova Russian Painter 1884 – 1967
# 12,490
IK
Ivan Kramskoi Russian Painter 1837 – 1887
# 13,091
MB
Marie Bashkirtseff Russian Painter 1858 – 1884
# 14,657
NG
Naum Gabo Russian Sculptor 1890 – 1977
# 16,978
ML
Mikhail Larionov Russian Painter 1881 – 1964
# 19,606