Wide fame came to Nikolai Alexeyevich Atryganevu when he was in a very advanced age. While the future landscape painter started painting at a student level, from childhood, in his youth, he chose a different road to self — graduated from the Institute of communications (1845). After a brief military service in the Caucasus in the Cossack regiment N. Atryganev out in 1848 for health reasons in his resignation and decided to devote further life painting. He took lessons from famous painters N. E. Sverchkova and EE Meyer. However, illness forced N. Atryganeva stop intensive painting classes — he went to his estate in the Chernigov governorate.
Only in 1872 N.. Atryganev returned to Petersburg and resumed his studies in painting under the guidance of Professor of the Academy of arts A. I. Meschersky. After nearly ten years of hard work comes to him success — he became a permanent member of academic exhibitions.
His landscapes (Winter landscape, 1882; in Mogilev province, 1883; a View of the river Oster, 1884; Evening, 1886; Autumn, 1886; Oak grove in Sestroretsk, 1889; After the rain, 1888; Split oak, 1889) eagerly purchased by collectors. Written with a love of nature and the inner bearing lyricism, canvases N.. Atryganeva added another page in the wonderful book of Russian landscape painting of the XIX century.
