Nikolay Kasatkin

[1] From 1873 to 1883 he studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture with Vasily Perov and Illarion Pryanishnikov.

For thirty years, beginning in 1883, he worked with Ivan Sytin, providing illustrations for his popular almanac/calendars and teaching lithography.

[2] He also contributed to Великая реформа [ru] (The Great Reform), an encyclopedia that celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of the Emancipation, and a collection called "Russian History in Pictures".

After the October Revolution, his school was closed and later incorporated into "Svomas" as the "Second Free Art Studio".

In 1971, his painting of a female mine worker was featured on a 6 kopeck stamp as part of a series of works by Soviet artists.