Nikolai Petrovich Bogdanov Belsky - Artist Info

About Nikolai Petrovich Bogdanov Belsky

Name variants

Nikolai Bogdanoff-Bjelski, Nikolaï Petrovich Bogdanov, Petrovich Nikolai Bogdanov, Nikolai Bogdanov-Belsky
  • Biography

    Nikolay Petrovich Bogdanov-Belsky was a Russian painter. He was born in the village of Shitiki in Smolensk Governorate in 1868. He studied art at the Semyon Rachinsky fine art school, icon-painting at the Troitse-Sergiyeva Lavra in 1883, modern painting at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in 1884 to 1889, and at the Imperial Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg from 1894 to 1895. He worked and studied in private studios in Paris in the late 1890s.

    Bogdanov-Belsky was active in St. Petersburg. After 1921, he worked exclusively in Riga, Latvia. He became a member of several prominent societies in including the Peredvizhniki from 1895, and the Arkhip Kuindzhi Society from 1909 (of which he w...

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