Nikolay Samokish
Nikolay Semyonovich Samokish | |
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| Николай Семёнович Самокиш Микола Семенович Самокиш | |
| Born | October 25, 1860 |
| Died | January 18, 1944 (aged 83) |
| Nationality | Russian Empire |
| Education | Member Academy of Arts (1890) Professor by rank (1912) Full Member Academy of Arts (1913) |
| Alma mater | Imperial Academy of Arts (1885) |
| Notable work | painting |
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Nikolay Semyonovich Samokish (Russian: Николай Семёнович Самокиш; Ukrainian: Микола Семенович Самокиш, romanized: Mykola Semenovych Samokysh; 25 October 1860, Nezhin, Government of Chernigov, Russian Empire – 18 January 1944, Simferopol, Russian SFSR, USSR) was a Ukrainian and Soviet painter and illustrator of Ukrainian Cossack descent who specialized in military art and animal painting. During the First World War Samokish was a correspondent for The Russian Sun, one of the most popular patriotic journals in Imperial Russia. He was a recipient of the Stalin Prize in 1941.
Samokish is also known as the second husband of the book illustrator Elena Sudkovskaya, with whom he often collaborated.