The Vibrant Legacy of Nicolai Cikovsky In the grand tapestry of twentieth-century American art, few threads are as colorful or as complex as those woven by Nicolai Stepanovich Cikovsky. Born on December 10, 1894, near the Polish border in Pinsk—a region then part of the Russian Empire—Cikovsky’s life was a journey of profound displacement and artistic rebirth. His early years were steeped in the revolutionary energy of the Russian ava…