Nikolai Kasatkin

Painter, teacher. Studied under Vasily Perov and Illarion Pryanishnikov at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (1873–83). Member of the Society of Travelling Art Exhibitions (from 1891), Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia (1922–26) and the Unification of Realist Artists (from 1927). Taught at the School of Lithography of the Pavel Sytin Publishing House (1882–1917) and the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (1894–1918). Visited the Donbass and Urals (1894–95) and painted images of miners and workers (1894–99). Academician (1898), full member of the Imperial Academy of Arts (1903). Painted a series of romantic revolutionary works in response to the events of the 1905 revolution (1905). Visited Finland, Norway and Sweden (1906), Italy and Turkey (1908–10) and Great Britain (1924). Lived in Moscow, where he decorated public festivals and opened a studio for workers (after 1917). Died suddenly while explaining one of his paintings at the Museum of the Revolution and buried in Moscow (1930). Contributed to exhibitions (from 1880). Contributed to the exhibitions of the Moscow Society of Lovers of the Arts (1889–94, 1908–11), Society of Travelling Art Exhibitions (1890–1922), Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia (1922, 1923), Unification of Realist Artists (1927, 1928), World Exhibitions in Paris (1900, silver medal) and St Louis (1904) and the international exhibitions in Munich (1897, 1909, 1910). People’s Artist of the RSFSR (1923)