Nikolai Tyrsa. Russian and Soviet painter, graphic artist, applied art specialist and teacher, representative of the Leningrad school of landscape painting. One of the founders of the Leningrad school of book graphics. Born into the family of an officer of the Kuban Cossack Army. In 1905-1909 he studied intermittently at the architectural department of the Higher Art School at the Imperial Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg (he did not complete the course) and at the private School of Painting and Drawing of E. Zvantseva with L. Bakst and M.... далее

Nikolai Tyrsa. Russian and Soviet painter, graphic artist, applied art specialist and teacher, representative of the Leningrad school of landscape painting. One of the founders of the Leningrad school of book graphics. Born into the family of an officer of the Kuban Cossack Army. In 1905-1909 he studied intermittently at the architectural department of the Higher Art School at the Imperial Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg (he did not complete the course) and at the private School of Painting and Drawing of E. Zvantseva with L. Bakst and M. Dobuzhinsky (1906-1910). He was engaged in teaching activities - at the Petrograd Academy of Arts, the State Art and Industrial Workshops (1918-1922) and the Leningrad Institute of Civil Engineers (1924-1942). Since 1921 he began to be engaged in book graphics. His first work in this direction was the design of the book ‘Comedy about Tsar Maximilian and his unruly son Adolf’. Among his works are illustrations for such books as ‘The Siege of the Palace’ by V. A. Kaverin, ‘The Republic of Shkid’ by G. Belykh and L. P. Panin G. Belykh and L. Panteleev, ‘Snow Book’ by V. V. Bianki, ‘War Horses’ by N. S. Tikhonov, ‘Childhood’ by M. Gorky. 29 January 1942 seriously ill evacuated from besieged Leningrad. Died on 10 February 1942 in Vologda. скрыть