Nikolai Sergeyev (1855-1919)

The future master of landscape Nikolai Sergeyev was born in Kharkov. He studied painting from the famous masters and professors of the Academy of Fine Arts , LF Lagorio .

In the eighties of the XIX century, the artist writes a lot, participated in exhibitions of the Academy of Fine Arts, is a lot of work to promote the fine arts in the depths of the country. During these years, there are exhibitions on its unpretentious, but at a high enough level made pictures with views of the south of Russia, "Watermill (Malorossiysky motive)," "Tartar aul", "The Abandoned Hut in Little Russia", "choked river", "apiary" "Merry noise stopped her wheels (Mermaid)", "Cossack suburb", "On the dirt road," "We meadows", "countryside", "In the Garden", "Elegy", "Tuchka passed over", "bay of the Dnieper "etc.

Artistic and social activities NA Sergeyev was evaluated: in 1887 he received the title of honorary member of the Academy of Fine Arts, in 1889 he was awarded the Order of St. Stanislaus 3rd degree in the promotion of the artistic field. In 1910, NA Sergeyev became an academician of landscape painting.