Neuro Nikolai

(1830 - 1904). He studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, was promoted to a freelance artist for the painting: "Home peasant scene". Living permanently in Moscow, he painted portraits, scenes of Russian national life, with half of 1870 - paintings, mainly on subjects of national history, appearing on the show comradeship Wanderers. Primary genre works Nevrev: "Requiem for a rural cemetery" (1865; at Countess P. Uvarova), . "Protodeacon, . proclaiming to the merchant's birthday party Many Years "(1866; Count Korzinkina), . "From the recent past" (1866; from the same company), . "Inheritance after the official", . "Stranger in a family of merchants", . "Voevoda" (from a poem by Adam Mickiewicz; Count Mamontov), . "Two friends (he is), . "Family calculations" (1888; in the Tretyakov Gallery), . "Bride" (1888, ibid),
. From historical paintings are given: "Prince Roman Galicia Polish noblemen and ambassadors", . Dmitri the Pretender at Vishnevsky (1881), . "Representation Xenia Godunova Dimitri (1882), . Zakhar Lyapunov and SHUISKI "(1886), . "Patriarch Nikon in court" (1885), . "Princess Praskovya G. Yusupova before the vows" (1886; in the Tretyakov Gallery), . "Yaroslav the Wise, . sending his daughter, . Anna, . in marriage to King Henry I "(1888);" Mochalov among his fans "(1888; in the museum of Alexander III),
. Best portraits - O.S. Shchepkina (1862) and MI. Tretyakov (both in the Tretyakov Gallery).