Art(TMORA) in Minneapolis which is widely exhibited and well known.   Nikolai Nikolaevich Baskakov  was born May 8, 1918 in a village seven kilometers from  Astrakhan  city on the  Volga River . His father, Nikolai Evlampievich Baskakov was a carpenter, his mother Evdokiya Vasilievna was a housewife and raised children -