Nikolay Samokish

Nikolay Semyonovich Samokish
Николай Семёнович Самокиш
Микола Семенович Самокиш
Born(1860-10-25)October 25, 1860
DiedJanuary 18, 1944(1944-01-18) (aged 83)
NationalityRussian Empire
EducationMember Academy of Arts (1890)
Professor by rank (1912)
Full Member Academy of Arts (1913)
Alma materImperial Academy of Arts (1885)
Notable workpainting
AwardsBig Gold Medal of the Imperial Academy of Arts (1885)

Nikolay Semyonovich Samokish (Russian: Николай Семёнович Самокиш; translit.: Nikolay Semyonovich Samokish,[1] Ukrainian: Микола Семенович Самокиш, romanizedMykola 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 [ru], one of the most popular patriotic journals in Imperial Russia. He was a recipient of the Stalin Prize in 1941.[2]

Samokish is also known as the second husband of the book illustrator Elena Sudkovskaya, with whom he often collaborated.

  1. ^ Nikolai Samokish
  2. ^ Brief biography @ "Sunday Afternoon".