1. Nikolai Matveevich Pozdneev was a Soviet Russian painter, living and working in Leningrad, a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists, representative of the Leningrad School of Painting, most known for his genre and still life paintings.
12 Facts About Nikolai Pozdneev
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Nikolai Pozdneev's father taught mathematics at the Leningrad Institute of Railroad Transport Engineers.
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In 1946 Pozdneev entered the famous Secondary Art School at the Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture named after Ilya Repin where he studied with Vladimir Gorb and Mikhail Bernshtein.
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In 1950, after graduating from the Secondary Art School Nikolai Pozdneev was adopted for the first course of the painting department of Repin Institute of Arts.
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Nikolai Pozdneev's teachers were Alexander Debler, Elena Tabakova, Andrei Mylnikov, Vladislav Anisovich.
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In 1956 Nikolai Pozdneev graduated from the Repin Institute of Arts in Victor Oreshnikov art workshop.
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Nikolai Pozdneev painted genre scenes, portraits in exterior and interior, landscapes, still lifes, sketches from the life.
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In 1957 Nikolai Pozdneev was admitted to the Leningrad Union of Artists.
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All the subsequent bright, brief, and dramatic fate of Nikolai Pozdneev was closely associated with the picturesque surroundings of the Academic Dacha and Tver lands.
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Nikolai Pozdneev had lived and worked in village of Maliy Gorodok in the house of his wife Vera Vasilievna.
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In 1967 Nikolai Pozdneev was awarded the Medal of All-Union Art Exhibition, devoted to 50th Anniversary of Soviet state.
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Nikolai Pozdneev died on 10 June 1978 in Leningrad in an accident at age 47.