Nikolay Lanceray

Nikolay Lanceray
Self-portrait made in 1920, while in Cheka custody at Rostov-on-Don.
Born
Nikolay Evgenievich Lanceray

(1879-04-26)26 April 1879
Died6 May 1942(1942-05-06) (aged 63)
NationalityRussian Empire, Soviet Union
OccupationArchitect

Nikolay Evgenievich Lanceray (Russian: Николай Евгеньевич Лансере; 26 April 1879 – 6 May 1942) was a Russian architect, preservationist, illustrator of books and historian of neoclassical art, biographer of Charles Cameron, Vincenzo Brenna and Andreyan Zakharov. Lanceray was associated with Mir Iskusstva art circle and was a proponent of Russian neoclassical revival school.