A graduate of the Penza art school and later the St. Petersburg Academy of arts Nikolai Asinkritos Tusov (1887-1963). in his work followed the traditions of Russian realistic art. He was the author of beautiful portraits of Batiushkov, Pushkin, Gogol, Chekhov. With great warmth, the artist depicted the life of the peoples of the North, and then the nature of the Moscow region.
Settling in Novocherkassk, he became a close associate of I. I. Krylov. Wrote the don landscapes, taught the students of the don Polytechnic Institute (later the Novocherkassk industrial Institute) drawing and painting (he was a Professor of drawing), gave lessons in Krylov organized art Studio. After the death of Ivan Ivanovich was her supervisor. Later he taught at the Novocherkassk Suvorov military school and the Rostov civil engineering Institute. As an artist worked a little.
In 1963, on the initiative of N. In. Ovechkin on the urban exhibition was exhibited a large number of paintings and graphic works Tusova. Several of his works kept in the collections of the Museum of history of the don Cossacks, and a pencil portrait of ataman M. I. Platov, located in the exhibition hall № 4.
5 may city newspaper "the banner of the" printed a note B. Plevaquin "Portrait of home" album. The text was accompanied by poorly distinguishable CHusovskogo reproduction of drawing. In July of the same year abridged notes under the heading "a little known portrait of the Seraphim" with a decent reproduction was published in the national weekly "Literary Russia".
About this portrait Plevaquin wrote again in 1988 in the regional newspaper "the Hammer." Its publication revived the almost forgotten name of a good artist and person. Was and responses from readers. Here he wrote a resident of'ska Elena Morozova:
"In the prewar years, still quite young, I was friends with him (Tusova. - V. R.) daughter Vika. They lived in a small apartment, literally covered and crowded with paintings by the owner. ...Much is a blur, but I clearly remember his looks, remember his hands with a pinkish skin and don patter. (Born in Vologda. - V. R.).
It was an amazingly good-hearted person, easily offended and not so favored by fate (as I at that time understood)".
After the death of the master all of his artistic heritage left in the Vologda Museum.
(From the article Vladimir Repnikov "there was an artist", City information portal of Novocherkassk)
