Nikolay Alekseyevich Kasatkin Not to be confused with Nikolay Ivanovich Kasatkin (born 1932), also a Russian painter. Nikolay Alekseyevich Kasatkin (13 Dec. 1859, Moscow - 17 Dec. 1930, Moscow); Russian painter; considered to be one of the founders of Social Realism in Russia. ...He is considered to be one of the forerunners of Socialist Realism in the arts and was sometimes called the "Gorky of Painters". He died suddenly while giving a presentation of his latest painting at the above Museum. In 1956... (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolay_Kasatkin) Kasatkin's achievement was that he was one of the first to show the full height, in the conditions of developing capitalism, of the worker in tsarist Russia and especially in Donbass. Kasatkin was the first to artistically and truthfully paint a worker, his life, his work. None of the artists before Kasatkin have expressed a direct interest in the proletariat. (http://www.fort-russ.com/2015/09/nikolay-kasatkin-first-painter-of.html) undefined

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