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Russian Artist - Nikolai Blokhin Nikolai Blokhin born 1968 St....



















Russian Artist - Nikolai Blokhin

Nikolai Blokhin born 1968 St. Petersburg, Russia is a realist, figurative artist painter. His education in art began very early at the Art School for Gifted Children in 1980, and continued through his postgraduate work and professorship at the prestigious St. Petersburg Academy of Art. With more than 20 years of artistic studies Nikolai is a young master with unequaled genius. His paintings are the embodiment of the classics with a contemporary approach. The unique style of his paintings has not gone without notice via 

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Art is the only way to run away without leaving home - run with us.

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