Nikolay Anokhin , contemporary Russian artist from Moscow

Moscow

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, born in 1966.
Graduated from the Moscow Art

Art

Art is the product or process of deliberately arranging items in a way that influences and affects one or more of the senses, emotions, and intellect....

 School, and then from Surikov Moscow Art Institute. From 1988 to 1992 he took art courses from Members of the Russian Academy of Arts

Imperial Academy of Arts

The Russian Academy of Arts, informally known as the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, was founded in 1757 by Ivan Shuvalov under the name Academy of the Three Noblest Arts. Catherine the Great renamed it the Imperial Academy of Arts and commissioned a new building, completed 25 years later in 1789...

 painters Aleksei Gritsai

Aleksei Gritsai

Aleksei Mikhailovich Gritsai was a Russian artist. From 1924 to 1931 he studied in Leningrad in the studios of S.M. Zaidenberg and from 1932 to 1939 at the Academy of Arts under P.S. Naumov, Vasili Yakovlev, and Isaak Brodsky....

 and Sergei Tkachev.
His works were placed on display at a number of exhibitions both in Russia

Russia

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and abroad. His younger brother Vladimir is also a classically trained painter.