Nikodim Kondakov

He is remembered as a pioneer among art historian who studied the treasures of Mount Athos like Frenchman Gabriel Millet.

Nicodem Pavlovitch Kondakov was born in the Russian Empire in 1844, in the village of Khalan in Kursk Governorate.

In his first book, on Greek manuscript illumination, published in 1877, Kondakov approached the stylistic evolution of eastern Romanesque art through the use of artistic ideal.

He collaborated with Salomon Reinach in Antiquités de la Russie Méridionale (1891).

Kondakov wrote numerous works on the history of Ancient Greek, Russian, Georgian and Eastern Roman art.