Background
Nilus, Petr was born in 1869 in Odessa.
Nilus, Petr was born in 1869 in Odessa.
Studied at the Odessa School of Graphic Art and the Society of Fine Arts, 1887-1890, under K.Kostandi, L.Iorini, A.Krasovskii. Studied at the Odessa School of Graphic Art and the Society of Fine Arts, 1887-1890, under K.Kostandi, L.Iorini, A.Krasovskii.
Continued his education at the Petersburg Academy of Arts, 1890-1892. Genre and landscape painter. Exhibitions: from 1891 at the TPKHV, the MOLKH, the Association of Southern Russian Artists in Odessa, All-Russian Exhibition, Nizhnii Novgorod, 1st State Free Exhibition.
Petrograd, Kostandi Society, Odessa, 1925. Emigrated in 1926.