Nikolai Tarasov
Armenian-Russian oil industrialist, heir, and patron of the arts
About Nikolai Tarasov
Lived 1882 – 1910 (aged 28). Nikolai Tarasov was a Russian patron of the arts and industrialist.
Nikolai Lazarevich Tarasov (, 1882, Moscow – October 1910, Moscow) was an Armenian–Russian oil-industrialist and dandy, who was a devotee of the theatre.
Biography He was born as Nikoghayos Torosian in a family of Armenian traders from Armavir. From 1906 he financially supported Moscow Art Theatre and became a member of theatre's direction. In 1908, along with his friend Nikita Balieff, he co-founded the Moscow Bat theatre (La Chauve-Souris), to organise comedy evenings for members of the Arts Theatre.
He committed suicide in 1910. Tarasov's tomb at the Moscow Armenian Cemetery is a modernist style work by sculptor Nikolai Andreev.
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Who was Nikolai Tarasov?
Armenian-Russian oil industrialist, heir, and patron of the arts (1882-1910)
When was Nikolai Tarasov born?
Nikolai Tarasov was born on 18 July 1882.
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Nikolai Tarasov died on 31 October 1910 in Moscow.
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Nikolai Tarasov was a patron of the arts and industrialist.
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Nikolai Tarasov was Russian.
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