Tyrsa N.A., (1887-1942), artist

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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. Akhmatova Anna Andreevna
Bakst Leon (real name Lev Samoilovich Rosenberg)
Kaverin Veniamin Alexandrovich
Pushkin Alexander Sergeevich
Tolstoy Lev Nikolaevich, Count
Tyrsa Nikolay Andreevich
Zvantseva Elizaveta Nikolaevna
Glinka St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 15
Сурис Б. Д. Николай Андреевич Тырса: Жизнь и творчество. М., 1996 Academy of Arts
Academy of Arts
World of Art, Association
Russian Museum, State
Architectural-Construction University, St. Petersburg State
Fighting Pencil, Society