Nikolai Sychov

Nikolai Petrovich Sychyov (; 27 April 1883 – 16 July 1964) was a Soviet and Russian art historian, specialist in museum conservation and restoration, artist and a university professor. Among his students were Mikhail Artamonov and Savva Yamshchikov.

Early life Nikolai Sychyov was born in Saint Petersburg. He studied at Gymnasium 11. At the age of 15 years he met the Professor A. Gorovsky who made a strong impression on him. He became interested in painting, got permission to go to the museum of the Imperial Academy of Arts and learn to paint. He spent so much time drawing that it nearly got him expelled from the Gymnasium. Inside the Academy he saw a lot of famous painters, such as Vladimir Makovsky, Arkhip Kuindzhi, Ilya Repin. Sychyov wanted to be a student of the Imperial Academy of Arts, but his parents refused. After much debate Sychyov decided to devote himself to history. He earned a master's degree in art history. He was sentenced to eight years in a labor camp. After discharge he lived in Chistopol, and then in Vladimir. In 1944 he started working on the reconstruction of Vladimir's Dormition Cathedral and participated in the restoration of the frescoes by Andrei Rublev. He was arrested again, but in 1954 his criminal record was cleaned. He died in Vladimir at the age of 81.

Publications The Keeping of the Russian Iconography and the Ancient Works of Church named after the Emperor Nicholas II at the Russian Museum , 1916 The Forgotten Fragments of the 12th-century Novgorod Frescos , 1918 The Miniatures Painting Instructions , 1922 The Stroganovsky School Works of Art Exhibition , 1923