Nikolay Koshelev

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Nikolay Andreyevich Koshelev (1840-1918) was a Russian painter.

Koshelev was born in the two of Arzamas, near Nizhni Novgorod and the Stupin School of Painting. Being poor, Koshelev could not afford to enter it, and instead became an apprentice of a local Church painter. In 1860, Koshelev travelled to St. Petersburg and studied at the Saint Petersburg School of Art. In a notable early collaboration with Ivan Kramskoi, he worked on the interior of the Salvator Cathedral. Koshelev began by painting portraits and genre art, but soon transferred mainly to historical painting. In 1873, he was made an academician and five years later a professor at the Academy. Koshelev generalized himself with the Russian academic camp of painting moreso than with the association of travelling exhibitioners. In 1902, he moved to Brazil to paint the interiors of the Russian Orthodox churches located there.