Nikolai Galakhov
| Nikolai Nikolaevich Galakhov | |
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| Born |
May 29, 1928 Kazan, USSR |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Education | Repin Institute of Arts |
| Known for | Painting |
| Movement | Realism |
| Awards | Honored Artist of the Russian Federation |
Nikolai Nikolaevich Galakhov (Russian: Никола́й Никола́евич Гала́хов; May 29, 1928 in Kazan, USSR) is a Russian artist. He is an Honored Artist of the Russian Federation, a member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists (before 1992 the Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation). Living and working in Saint Petersburg, he is regarded as one of the representatives of the Leningrad school of painting, and is most famous for his landscape paintings.
Nikolai Galakhov was born May 29, 1928, in Kazan city, Tatar Republic, USSR, on the Volga River. In 1942 he entered in Kazan Art School, and graduated in 1947. In the same year he moved to Leningrad and was admitted to the first course of Department of Painting of the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture named after Ilya Repin. He studied of Leonid Ovsannikov, Joseph Serebriany, Piotr Belousov, Yuri Neprintsev.
In 1953 Nikolai Galakhov graduated from the Repin Institute of Arts in Rudolf Frentz workshop. His graduation work was a genre painting named "Poet Nikolai Nekrasov on the Volga River", dedicated to Nikolai Nekrasov, a prominent Russian poet, writer, critic and publisher of the XIX Сentury (painting now resides in the Museum of the Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg).
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