Nikolai Nikolaevich Baskakov, Russian painter, lived and worked in Leningrad, a member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists (before 1992 known as the Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation), regarded as one of the leading representatives of the Leningrad school of painting, most famous for his genre and portrait painting. He painted battle and historical paintings, genre scenes, portraits, landscapes and sketches from the life, and he was most famous for the impressive portraits of contamporaries painted in realistic style. Baskakov worked in the technique of oil painting and drawing.

Nikolai Nikolaevich Baskakov was born May 8, 1918 in Astrakhan city on the Volga River. In 1933-1939 years Nikola...