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Nikolay Petrovich Feofilaktov, born in 1876, was a Russian painter and printmaker. He studied at the Konstantin Yuon Art Studio. Read the full biography

Nikolay Petrovich Feofilaktov, born in 1876, was a Russian painter and printmaker. He studied at the Konstantin Yuon Art Studio. He participated in the "Scarlet Rose" exhibition in Saratov in 1904 and later in the "Blue Rose" exhibition. It was Sergei Diaghilev who noticed the talent of the young artist and helped him to publish his first works in the magazine "World of Art". Nikolay Feofilaktov was influenced by the graphic art of Aubrey Beardsley. He created all the photos, cartoons and covers of the Moscow Symbolists' magazine. His graphics deal with subjects of morbid imaginations, masks, candles, strange hermaphrodites, agamic figures, sphinxes and chimeras with bats. These images were very successful, however, unlike Beardsley, Nikolay Feofilaktov depicted them without that tragic anguish, but with ease and soft grace, typical of Moscow art. Feofilaktov died in 1941.