Nikolai Sapunov, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Russian artist
Date of Birth: 17-Dec-1880
Place of Birth: Moscow, Russia
Date of Death: 14-Jun-1912
Profession: painter
Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius 
About Nikolai Sapunov
- Nikolai Nikolaevich Sapunov (1880–1912) was a Russian painter.
- He was born in Moscow and studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture under Isaac Levitan (1893–1901), and at the Imperial Academy of Arts in St.
- Petersburg (1898–1901) under Kiseliov. He painted sets for the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow based on designs by Korovin (1901–1902), as well as for Moscow Art Theatre (from 1904), the sets and costumes for Meyerhold's 1906 production of Alexander Blok's The Puppet Show, and theatres of Vera Komissarzhevskaya and experimental Theatre of Alexandr Tairov.
- His best known paintings are still lifes with flowers and china. At the end of his life he began a series of ironic genre pictures, which he left unfinished, as he wished to go abroad.
- Nikolai Sapunov drowned in a boating accident in Terioki, Finland (now Zelenogorsk) at the age of 32.
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