Leon I. Bakhman

Born Lev Isakovich Bakhman in Russian Imperial Kishinev (today Chișinău, Moldova), Leon Bakhman was the first Jewish student enrolled at the St. Petersburg Academy of Fine Arts, where he completed his studies in the 1850s. Bakhman worked as a graphic illustrator for many years before collaborating with Ivan Shaposhnikov on the neo-Byzantine and Moorish revival Grand Choral Synagogue in St. Petersburg.