Background
Peter Petrovich Nikiforov was born on March 31, 1918 in Moscow, Russian Federation.
Peter Petrovich Nikiforov was born on March 31, 1918 in Moscow, Russian Federation.
Peter Petrovich Nikiforov studied at the Moscow Surikov State Art Institute (1943-1944), graduated from the art Department of the philological faculty of Moscow State University in 1949 (teachers B.R. Whipper, V.N. Lazarev).
The key positions in the career include: research officer at the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts (1948-1949), director of art gallery, art school teacher in Penza (1949-1952), deputy head of the Department of fine arts institutions of the Ministry of Culture of the USSR (1952-1954), executive secretary (1955-1958), senior lecturer of the Belarusian Theatre and Art Institute (1958-1963).
Peter Petrovich was a deputy chairman of Belarussian Union of Artists (1963-1965). In 1965-1984 he lived in Voronezh, participated in the organization of regional exhibitions "Chernozem Region". In 1965-1972 Peter Petrovich worked as a teacher of philosophy and aesthetics and since 1972 as a teacher of art history at Voronezh State Pedagogical Institute. Since 1986 he worked as a chairman of the criticism section and chairman of the Board of the Moscow Regional Union of Artists.