Pyotr Nilus

Woman Look at Seine River in Paris

Pyotr Nilus. Autumn. 1893

Pyotr Alexandrovich Nilus (Template:Lang-ru; 20 February [O.S. 8 February] 1869 – 23 May 1943). was a Russian and Ukrainian impressionist painter and writer.

Pyotr was born in Baltsky Uyezd, Government of Podolia, in the Russian Empire (present-day Ukraine). His grandfather took part in the Patriotic War of 1812. At the age of seven Pyotr moved to Odessa where he studied at the local Peter and Paul real school and attended art classes of Kyriak Kostandi. Then he attended the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg and participated in exhibitions of Peredvizhniki.

During the Russian Civil War, in 1920 ,he emigrated to Paris where he worked until his death in 1943. Pyotr Nilus was a friend of Aleksandr Kuprin and Ivan Bunin. For the first years in Paris they lived in the same house. They led an intensive correspondence; there were published more than one hundred letters of Pyotr Nilus to Bunin

Pyotr Nilus in 1906 together with Korney Chukovsky actively participated in the efforts to help Jewish children, victims of the Odessa pogrom.

Paintings

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  On the Beach
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  After the Rain
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  Three Women in the Park
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  Footman (Morning)

External links

• Pyotr Nylus, the poet of art, Odessa, N3, 1996 Archived 2006-10-26 at the Wayback Machine (in Russian)
• http://lj.rossia.org/users/john_petrov/531430.html?view=1909222#t1909222
• Biography of Pyotr Nilus on rulex.ru Archived 2005-05-22 at the Wayback Machine (in Russian)