Nikolai Nikolaevich Galakhov was a Russian artist.
15 Facts About Nikolai Galakhov
Nikolai Galakhov was an Honored Artist of the Russian Federation, a member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists.
Nikolai Galakhov was born May 29,1928, in Kazan city, Tatar Republic, USSR, on the Volga River.
Nikolai Galakhov 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.
Nikolai Galakhov's 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 19th century.
Since 1951 Nikolai Galakhov had participated in Art Exhibitions, mostly as a master of landscape and genre scene.
Nikolai Galakhov worked in technique of oil painting, tempera, pastel, watercolors, and pencil drawing.
Nikolai Galakhov traveled on the Russian rivers Volga, Vetluga, Vyatka, where he painted a lot sketches from the life.
Nikolai Galakhov's paintings are sustained in the strict, almost classical tradition of Russian landscape painting.
Nikolai Galakhov painted numerous sketches and paintings devoted to the nature and the present day of this region.
Nikolai Galakhov was particularly attracted to the wild parts of northern nature, untouched by civilization.
Nikolai Galakhov knows how to show us her fragile beauty and majesty.
In 1984 Nikolai Galakhov was awarded the honorary title of Honored Artist of Russian Federation.
Solo Exhibitions by Nikolai Galakhov were in Leningrad and Saint Petersburg.