Painter. Figures, landscapes. Nicholas POLIAKOFF, born Nikolai Gueorguyevich POLIAKOV (in Russian: Николай Георгиевич Поляков) July 22, 1899 in Ukraine, Naturalized French, died July 1, 1976 in Paris, is a Russian painter of the School of Paris. He is a representative of the Cubist movement. Born in Ukraine on July 22, 1899, he first trained at the School of Fine Arts in Belgrade (Yugoslavia), which he attended from October 1921 to July 1925. In October 1925, he joined Paris where he becomes a student of André Lhote in his Academy of Painting, 18 rue d'Odessa (14th arrondissement of Paris). From 1926, he is massier of this Academy and assistant of André LHOTE until the death of this one in 1962. In 1933 he made three gouaches to illustrate a manuscript calligraphy by Guido Colucci of the new "A crime" of Ivan Bunin. Until 1965, he is professor of painting at the Academy.From the 1930s until his death, he occupied a workshop at 278, boulevard Raspail in Paris in the Montparnasse district. He was a licensed copyist at the Louvre Museum. His ashes rest in the cemetery of Père-Lachaise in Paris In some sources: he was brother of Serge POLIAKOFF.