Nikolai Bogdanov-Belsky (1868-1945) - wanderer, full member of the Imperial Academy of Arts, chairman of the Kuindzhi Society.
He studied at the icon-painting workshop of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra, at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, the Higher Art School at the Imperial Academy of Arts under I. E. Repin. In Paris, he visited the studios of F. Colarossi, F. Cormon. Worked in Munich and Italy.
The artist's works are in the following collections:
State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
Taganrog Art Museum, Taganrog
Prague National Gallery, Prague
Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga
BU Khanty-Mansiysk - Ugra "State Art Museum", Khanty-Mansiysk
East Kazakhstan Regional Museum of Fine Arts named after the Nevzorov family
Sumy Art Museum named after Nikanor Onatsky
Museum of Russian Impressionism

"Portrait of a village boy" - sketches for a series of famous paintings "Mental account. In the folk school of S. A. Rachinsky ”etc. (State Tretyakov Gallery).