Nikolai Fechin, (1881-1955) was an outstanding master of Russian art of the early 20th century. Owing to his forced emigration, Fechin"s work also became a part of American art. A brilliant painter of multi-figure genre compositions and a virtuoso master of portraiture, he was no less interesting as a landscape painter and excelled as a painter of nudes and still lifes. Nikolai Fechin was one of the most prominent master of drawings from life in his time. He also reveled his versatile talent in the fields of architecture, sculpture, woodcarving, theatrical design, and teaching.