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Nikolai Tuzhilin
Born:
1930, Krepost (Kuibyshev Region)
Movements:
Socialist Realism
Socialist Realism
Painter, graphic artist. Born in the family of Terenty Tuzhilin in Krepost in Kuibyshev (now Samara) Region (1930). Studied under Alexander Zaitsev at the Ilya Repin Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in Leningrad (1956–64). Member of the Union of Artists (1971). Honoured Artist of the Russian Federation (2005). Lives in Moscow. Contributed to exhibitions, including Roads in Russian Art at the Russian Museum in St Petersburg (2004–05) and a one-man show in Moscow (1980).
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