Nikolay
Georgievich Kotov

1889 was Born in Tomsk.

1910-1912 Study in Tomsk drawing classes at S. Prokhorov.

1912-1917 Studies at MUZHVZ have Miloradovich, A. Arkhipov, Korovin.

1917-1921 Lived in Tomsk, one of the organizers of the Tomsk section of Fine arts (IZO).

1922 One of the organizers of the Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia (AHRR), Moscow.

1920s-1930s have been Many times in expeditions to Altai, Pamir, and Siberia, a series of paintings. Based on his sketches done of the panorama "Sturm Perekop", "defense of Tsaritsyn — Stalingrad defense", "defense of Sevastopol". Worked as a poster artist, mainly in the field of political posters.

1968 Died in Moscow. C. there are in Moscow at the Russian state library, Taganrog art gallery, the Tomsk regional Museum.

Nikolai Georgievich Kotov, before he went to study at the Moscow school of sculpture and architecture, for Tomsk has done a lot. But in the memory of descendants he left due to the pencil portrait of David Burliuk. In 1919, entered the revolutionary winds in Siberia, one of founders of Russian futurism gave the evening a snapshot of the portrait. Burliuk painted cats, Cats - its. It turned out the party - almost the same as in figure Mikhail Shcheglov.

It is noteworthy that this plot is a "quick portrait" was repeated a few weeks ago. The exhibition was held a master class that gave Boris Peppers, Vyacheslav Shvedov Sergey V. Kuznetsov. On display next to the adjacent burukovsky portrait self portrait Kotova in adulthood, donated by the artist's daughter. According to this late work, Nicholas G. was a sort of don Quixote from painting...

(From the article "self Portrait of an era", Bulletin of Longing, T. Vesnina)