Nikolay
Aleksandrovich Kvashnin

Russia • 1870−1924

Biography and information

Student of the Academy of arts of 1891 Has a small silver medal. 30 October 1895 – the title of class artist. 30 Oct 1896 – the title of class artist of 3 degrees. In 1897 – the title of artist-architect for the "project station".

(Kondakov)

B. in Tver, went to Tver. state-owned real Uch-school, he graduated from Moscow. Uch-school of painting, sculpture and architecture, and Petersburg. AH. Participated in the construction of buildings Paveletsky train station, Mountains. Duma of the hotel "Metropol" in Moscow and others From the 1890s visited, and then lived in his parents ' estate St. Solopova Tver. (now Kalininskogo R-na). In 1908 he settled in his estate a Small farm (New. Solopova) near the village of Christmas, of the same County, where he opened a school-workshop of wood carvers (see art and craft school-workshop), and organized theater for the rural youth (in 1918 the theatre was played by S. Lemeshev). K. wrote tales ("Black pearl". M., 1911), wrote poems, plays for his theatre, he designed his performances. He was buried at the Church in the village of Ivanovskoe (now Kalininskogo R-na). In 1995 in Tver published "Works" of K.

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