Nikita Petrovich Fedosov (1939–1992) graduated from the Surikov Moscow State Art Institute in 1962. He studied in the workshop of Professor Dmitry Konstantinovich Mochalsky. Nikita Fedosov’s graduation work “On the Dvina River” is still kept in the collection of the Institute as an example of an excellent artistic skill. When the painting was taken to the hall to be exhibited in front of the commission, the audience stood up and began to applaud.
Soon after, in 1964, the artist was accepted into the Creative Workshops of the Academy of Arts of the USSR. Nikita Fedosov became a legend of Russian Realism of the second half of the 20th century. His paintings put his name among the great Russian landscapists.
He loved life and never hid his feelings. Landscape, according to Nikita Fedosov, “does not make sense without painting and without a soul” because “nature does not allow lying, and teaches conscientiousness. Greatness and mediocre work don’t get along.”
Leonid Vitalievich
Golovanov, a Candidate of Philosophy, wrote,
