Artist
Nikolai Samokysh
Russian, 1860–1944
Nikolai Samokysh was a Russian Realism artist. 1 work is cataloged here, principally at Hermitage Museum. Nikolai Samokysh was born in Nizhyn.
Nikolay Semyonovich Samokish (Russian: Николай Семёнович Самокиш; Ukrainian: Микола Семенович Самокиш, romanized: Mykola Semenovych Samokysh; 25 October 1860, Nezhin, Government of Chernigov, Russian Empire – 18 January 1944, Simferopol, Russian SFSR, USSR) was a Ukrainian and Soviet painter and illustrator of Ukrainian Cossack descent who specialized in military art and animal painting. During the First World War Samokish was a correspondent for The Russian Sun, one of the most popular patriotic journals in Imperial Russia. He was a recipient of the Stalin Prize in 1941. Samokish is also known as the second husband of the book illustrator Elena Sudkovskaya, with whom he often collaborated.
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