Nicolay Paskevich (Russian: Nikolai Aleksandrovich Paskevich, Lithuanian: Mykolas Paškevičius, born: 18 August 1907 in Riga, Latvia, died: 19 May 2003) was a Russian painter working mostly in ink, acrylic, and pastel, exhibiting an interest in action, power, music, and western motifs.

[7] Upon graduation Paskevich was accepted by the Academy of Arts in Leningrad where he studied under artists Arkady Rylov and Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin.

[4][8] When the Germans occupied Minsk at the beginning of World War II, the Paskevichs managed to escape to Kaunas, Lithuania, where they participated in the artistic life of the city for a few years.

In 1940, prior to the German invasion during WW II, Paskevich received the Red Banner Badge as an artist in the socialist realism movement in the USSR and dined at the Kremlin with Joseph Stalin.

[4] In 1944, he fled the war again and arrived in Bavaria, where he and his family were given shelter by the Americans in a Displaced Persons' Camp.