Nikolay Alexandrovich Sysoev (1918 - 2001)

Nikolay Alexandrovich Sysoev

Nikolay Alexandrovich Sysoev (Russian: Николай Александрович Сысоев) was a Soviet and Russian artist of the second half of the twentieth century. He is known as a painter and graphic artist, heir to the traditions of the Russian realist school.

Nikolay Sysoev became famous as a portraitist, landscape painter, genre painter, master of still life. His oeuvre includes a picture "Leniniana". Among his most famous works are "Lenin and Krupskaya among the peasants", "Lenin on the Communist Saturday", "Collectivization", "Nationwide Holiday", "Mother" and others. Sysoev also founded an art gallery in the Lipetsk region of Russia, named in his honor.