Nikolai Kuznetsov. Russian and Yugoslavian portrait and genre painter; a full member, academician, professor of the Imperial Academy of Arts, member of the Association of Travelling Art Exhibitions, one of the founders of the Association of South Russian Artists. Father of opera singer Maria Kuznetsova-Benoit. He was born in the family of a Kherson landowner, staff-trottmister Dmitry Mikhailovich Kuznetsov. His mother, Klavdia Gavrilovna Kuznetsova (in maidenhood Leontovich), discovers her son's inclination to draw and takes him to Odessa, to a family friend, the artist F. F. Malman, one of the... далее

Nikolai Kuznetsov. Russian and Yugoslavian portrait and genre painter; a full member, academician, professor of the Imperial Academy of Arts, member of the Association of Travelling Art Exhibitions, one of the founders of the Association of South Russian Artists. Father of opera singer Maria Kuznetsova-Benoit. He was born in the family of a Kherson landowner, staff-trottmister Dmitry Mikhailovich Kuznetsov. His mother, Klavdia Gavrilovna Kuznetsova (in maidenhood Leontovich), discovers her son's inclination to draw and takes him to Odessa, to a family friend, the artist F. F. Malman, one of the artists. F. Malman, one of the best teachers of the Odessa drawing school. When Nicholas was 26 years old, being from a military family and possessing extraordinary physical abilities, he decided to go to St. Petersburg and enter the Guards lancer regiment. The commander of the Guards lancers, Baron Essen, was ill. Nikolai Dmitrievich did not get to see him. Under the influence of the passion for art began to exercise in painting and soon entered the Imperial Academy of Arts, from which he received three silver medals. In 1879, at the insistence of I. N. Kramskoi and I. I. Shishkin, he left the Academy and returned to Stepanovka, where, together with A. P. Razmaritsyn, he continued to paint. Nikolai Kuznetsov did not accept the revolution, he did not see a place for himself in post-revolutionary Russia and in 1920 emigrated. The artist settled in the Yugoslav Kingdom, where settled then a significant part of Russian emigrants. He lived in the cities of Vješ, Bela Cerkva, Rijeka and Sarajevo. He painted mainly commissioned portraits. He participated in the Exhibition of Russian Painting and Sculpture at the Brooklyn Museum (1923) and the Exhibition of the Association of Russian Artists in 1928 in the Kingdom of SKS (the state formed in 1918 as a result of the unification of Serbia, Montenegro, Slovenia, Croatia and Serbia). скрыть