Memories of events that took place in the distant past are written by many elderly people. Nikolai Nikulin, a participant in the war, also transferred facts and events that have been remembered to the paper.
Harsh youth
Any retelling is imperfect. Even the most accurate memories do not reflect the innermost meaning of events. Nikolai Nikolaevich Nikulin - a participant in the Great Patriotic War. Many years after the Victory, he published a book based on memories of events at the front. The book is called "Memories of the War." By that time, such publications had become commonplace on bookstores. The reading public accepted the latest memories as a familiar occurrence. In a sense, writing memoirs has become fashionable.
However, Nikolai Nikulin did not think to follow fashion. He simply freed his memory from impressions that had been stored for decades. The future author was born on April 7, 1923 in a family of rural teachers. Parents lived in a small village in the territory of the Yaroslavl province. In 1927, the head of the family was transferred to work in the famous city of Leningrad. Here the boy went to school. Nikulin received a certificate of maturity in June 1941. Five days after the start of the war, he joined the militia, which was formed from volunteers living in the city on the Neva.
Creative activity
Nikulin spent all the long years of the war at the forefront. Four times wounded and once shell-shocked. Demobilized from the ranks of the armed forces for injuries in the fall of 1945. Returning home, Nikolai began to build his future destiny. In 1950 he received a specialized education at the History Department of Leningrad State University. And from that moment he was hired as a guide in the Hermitage. The former front-line soldier was conscientious in fulfilling his duties. Five years later, the creativity of the guide was appreciated and transferred to the category of scientific staff.
Nikulin worked in the department of Western European art for more than fifty years. Over the past period, he wrote and defended his dissertation, having received a diploma of a candidate of art history. From his pen came out almost two hundred articles that were published in domestic and foreign publications. Nikolai Nikolaevich was invited to thematic conferences and symposia. He gave lectures on art history to students of the Repin Institute of Painting. In 1975, he finished work on a book of memoirs about his military youth.
