Glushchenko Nikolai Petrovich

Krainsky, Soviet painter, Soviet spy. Member of the Union of Artists of the USSR. People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR (1944). People's Artist of the USSR (1976). State Prize of the Ukrainian SSR named after T. G. Shevchenko (1972) - for a series of paintings "On Lenin's places abroad", "Landscapes of Ukraine" (1969-1971). In 1918 he graduated from a commercial school in Yuzovka (now Donetsk). Soon after mobilization he was enlisted in the Volunteer Army of A. I. Denikin. He studied at the school-studio of Hans Baluschek in Berlin. In 1920-1924 he studied at the Berlin Higher School of Fine Arts (now the Berlin University of the Arts). In 1925 he moved to Paris, where he was influenced by the French Impressionists: C. Monet, E. Degas, A. Matisse, V. Van Gogh. He created portraits of R. Roland and A. Barbusse and others. He designed the Soviet pavilion of the Lyon Fair. In 1930 he created a series of illustrations for N. V. Gogol's poem Dead Souls.