Nikolaj Dmitrievich Milioti was born in 1874 and died in 1962. A Russian painter, graphic artist and stage designer and member of the artist group 'Blue Rose' he attended the Moscow University and the Sorbonne. He studied under Abram Arkhipov, Leonid Pasternak and Valentin Serov at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture between 1894 and 1900 as well as in the private studio of Konstantin Korovin and under Jean-Paul Laurens and Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant at the Académie Julian in Paris in the late 1890s.

From 1906 onwards Milioti was a member of the Salon d'Automne in Paris and participated in exhibitions throughout Europe. He lived in Yalta, Berlin and Paris and traveled to the US, Italy, Spain, Holland and Germany. Milioti belonged to the artist's group 'Blue Rose' (Golubaya Roza), whose works are characterized by symbolist, fauvist and primitive elements, inspired by artists such as Mikhail A. Vrubel and Viktor Borisov-Musatov.