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He was born in Saint Petersburg (1874). Nicholas was the first son. He had an older sister. We have very little information about his childhood except that he grew up in a prosperous, upper-middle-class St. Petersburg family. He from an early age was reprtedly a curious child with an active mind. And the young Nicholas was stimulated by the writers and artists thathis parents invited to their hime. One especially important experience was with an important archeologist. When he was nine, a noted archeologist. He took Nicholas at the age of 9 years old on one of his excavations of the local tumuli. The wonderful adventure sparked a life-long interest in archeology. He also became a collector. He began collections of prehistoric artifacts, coins, and minerals and he did it in an usually systemitized fashion for a boy. He even built an arboretum to study plants. Another special interest that developed early was drawing and he proved very good at it. Nucholas spent much of his summers at Izvara, the family's country . The beauty of the northern landscapes seems to have seized his imagination from an early age. As a painter many of his paintings were landscapes enfused with intense color.
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