He studied at St. Petersburg VHU with ÔÕ by L. Bakst in 1905 - 1910, respectively; in the school of drawing and painting EN Zvantseva in 1907 - 1910, respectively; in the etching studio V.V.Mate.Chlen associations "World Art "," Union of Youth "(1915), Association of left-wing movements in the arts (1922).
He taught at TSUTR in 1917 - 1922), PGSHUM - VHUTEIN and 1918 - 1926 respectively,
Department of drawing in LIIKS in 1924 - 1941 respectively,
the Kiev Art Institute
in 1938 - 1939 respectively. He worked in the department of Fine Arts Narcompros in 1918 - 1920 respectively.
He was engaged in easel painting and easel graphics,
arts and crafts, painted landscapes, still lifes, interiors, nude. Painting by impressionist feeling and techniques, intense color, decorative, is made in the light spectrum. However, the work of Stipa different free, but the exact figure, testifying to the academic skills of a good, sharp vision of nature's character.
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Here is another biography: Tyrsa Nikolai Andreyevich

The son of an officer of the Kuban Cossack army, NA Tyrsa studied intermittently at the architectural department of Fine Arts (1905-09) and in art school, EN Zvantseva (1907-10). He first attracted the attention of critics in 1914, presented at the brilliant images with images of naked a model. Creative His interests were very varied, and in each of the areas he showed himself Vysokopr vocational and original. In his youth Tyrsa gave several years studying the ancient art - murals imitating and participating in their restoration, then engaged in decorative painting in St. Petersburg houses. In the 1920's. artist's attention was focused on the chart. In the easel chart - numerous drawings and watercolors with nature - he honed his skills. Graphics industry was for him primarily a source of profit, but over her he worked with enthusiasm. In the schedule book Tyrsa came back in 1921, issued the "comedy of King Maximilian," and illustrations of the "Goat" (1923) initiated work in the children's book, where he soon became one of the greatest masters. Focusing on the readers and students preferring the theme of modernity or the nearest past, he has designed dozens of books, among which "The siege of the palace" VA Kaverina, Republic SHKID "G. White and L. Panteleyev," Snow Book "in . V. Bianchi, "War Horses" N. Tikhonov, "Childhood" Gorky; often all, he turned to books BS Zhitkova, his constant and favorite author. In the exciting, dynamic illustrations Stipa realistic precision was combined with a romantic feeling. In the 1920's. He began teaching drawing and watercolor at different institutions, brought up a lot of fine artists.

Since the mid 1920's. Tyrsa paid more attention watercolors, as if preparing for a transition to oil painting in 1930. His paintings - landscapes, still lifes, interiors, images of nude models - grew out of field sketches, and, unlike the pictures were of a contemplative nature, but they are charged with enthusiasm for the richness and colorfulness of the world and draws temperament turn this world into a canvas. In the same years for his self-interest has acquired lithography, which he had previously used only in the illustrations. The idea of the spread of highly massive pictures fascinated him and inspired the creation of different multicolored prints (including the famous "Bouquet", 1939), and the tireless mind pushed to the invention of an entirely new technology "blur ink on a stone," much more widely possibilities of lithography. In the children's book Tyrsa now working less, but turned to books for adults and performed excellent illustrations of the "Queen of Spades, Pushkin (1936), Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy (1939) and" Hero of Our Time Lermontov (1940). In 1940-41. he took up more and glassmaking, and working with the VI Mukhina in the experimental shop of the Leningrad mirror factory, designed two dozen items - decanters, glasses and vases, characterized by conciseness and nobility of the original shape and a delicate sense of the nature of glass, which can be considered as one founder of the Leningrad school of art glass.

Most Stipa solo exhibition opened June 15, 1941, but lasted only a week - the war began. January 29, 1942 it weakened the siege in the winter, was evacuated from Leningrad, but it was too late.
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"Commissioner in starched collars" Nicholas Tyrsa in Galeev-Gallery (interesting article) http://www.kommersant.ru/doc.aspx?Do...amp;print=true