Nikolai Triik

After graduating from the public schools in 1901, he enrolled at the Saint Petersburg Art and Industry Academy, but was expelled for participating in a student strike during the 1905 Revolution.

[1] He returned home and continued his studies at the private art school operated by Ants Laikmaa, but later went back to Saint Petersburg to take lessons from Osip Braz.

The following year, he accompanied Konrad Mägi and Aleksander Tassa on a trip to Åland and spent some time in Helsinki at the school operated by the "Finnish Art Association".

[1] When his studies there were completed, he visited Norway, then went to Saint Petersburg again and audited classes at the art academy operated by Nicholas Roerich.

In 1911, he began producing an art section for a magazine published by the literary association, Noor-Eesti (Young Estonia), and created a series of works based on Estonian folklore.