Nikolay Samokish, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Russian and Soviet painter
Date of Birth: 25-Oct-1860
Place of Birth: Nizhyn, Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine
Date of Death: 18-Jan-1944
Profession: painter
Zodiac Sign: Scorpio 
About Nikolay Samokish
- Nikolay Semyonovich Samokish (Russian: ??????? ????????? ???????; translit.: Nikolay Semyonovich Samokish; 25 October 1860, Nezhin, Government of Chernigov, Russian Empire - 18 January 1944, Simferopol, Russian SFSR, USSR) was a Russian and Soviet painter and illustrator of Cossack descent who specialized in military art and animal painting.
- During the First World War Samokish was a correspondent for The Russian Sun, one of the most popular patriotic journals in Imperial Russia.
- He was a recipient of the Stalin Prize in 1941.Samokish is also known as the second husband of the book illustrator Elena Sudkovskaya, with whom he often collaborated.
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