Yuri Tulin

Yuri Nilovich Tulin
Born	August 14, 1921 Maksatikha, Tver Province, Soviet Russia
Died	April 27, 1988 Leningrad, USSR
Nationality	Russian
Education	Repin Institute of Arts
Known for	Painting
Movement	Realism
Awards	Honored Artist of the Russian Federation

Yuri Nilovich Tulin (Russian: Ю́рий Ни́лович Ту́лин; August 14, 1921, Maksatikha village, Tver Province, Soviet Russia – April 27, 1988, Leningrad, USSR) -was a Soviet Russian painter and Honored Artist of the Russian Federation. He lived and worked in Leningrad and is regarded as one of the brightest representatives of the Leningrad school of painting, most famous for his portraits and historical paintings.

Yuri Nilovich Tulin was born August 14, 1921, in village of Maksatikha, Tver Oblast, Soviet Russia.

In 1922 Tulin family moved to Petrograd. In the years 1930–1936 Yuri Tulin visited private Art studio of Alfred Eberling and Pavel Mikhailov, then Art studio at the Leningrad Palace of Young Pioneers. In 1937–1941 he studied at the Secondary Art School at the All-Russian Academy of Fine Arts, pupil of Piotr Kazakov and Alexander Zaitsev.

In 1941, Yuri Tulin entered the painting department of the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. After beginning of Great Patriotic War Yuri Tulin remained in Leningrad, he worked at the plant.

In 1944, after the liberation of Leningrad from the enemy's blockade and the return from evacuation institute Yuri Tulin resume classes at the faculty of painting. He studied of Mikhail Bernshtein, Genrikh Pavlovsky, Alexander Zaytsev.

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