Career
After the death of choir leader Grigory Sokolov Shishkin he led the choir and inherited the role of lead sokolovskaya guitar. He was a composer and arranger of Russian songs and one of several Gypsy singer-composer arrangers from Kursk called Shishkin. He is not to be confused with A. I. Shishkin (А И Шишкин, f11887) composer of the romance "Number, it"s not you I love so fervently" (Russian «Нет, не тебя так пылко я люблю») set to the words of Lermontov.
There is also a contemporary singer called Nikolai Shishkin.
