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\n \n TYRSA Nikolay Andreevich (1887-1942), graphic artist and painter. He attended the Academy of Arts (1905-09) and E.N. Zvantseva Arts School (1906-10), studying painting under L.S. Bakst. As a painter, he followed the traditions of Mir Iskusstva (World of Art). He was the author of lyrical water-colour landscapes of Leningrad, the Moika River near the Siny Bridge (1933, State Russian Museum), chamber graphic and portraits, including a series of portraits of A.A. Akhmatova (1927-28), and many book illustrations, performed in drawing, water-colour and lithography, which have been described as masterly cursory sketches (these include illustrations to the books: V.A. Kaverin's The Siege of the Palace (1926), Alexander Pushkin's Queen of Spades (1936), Leo N. Tolstoy's Anna Karenina (1939). He taught at the Academy of Arts in 1918-22 and the Institute of Civil Engineering from 1924. In 1939-42 he was one of the initiators of the Fighting Pencil Association. Tyrsa lived at 15 Glinki Street (1923-27, 1929-30s; memorial plaque), and died in Vologda while in evacuation.

References: Сурис Б. Д. Николай Андреевич Тырса: Жизнь и творчество. М., 1996.

O. L. Leikind, D.Y. Severyukhin.\n
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\n \n \n Akhmatova Anna Andreevna\n
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\n \n \n \n Pushkin Alexander Sergeevich\n
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