It is noted that the cause of death is unknown.

According to kp.ru, the artist died on April 2.

“An amazing artist Nikolai Sazhin passed away. Out - with a brush in his hands, in his workshop ... while working on a new canvas, ”wrote Vladimir Nazansky, curator of the St. Petersburg Erarta Museum, in social networks.

The artist's works are exhibited in museums such as the Russian Museum, the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, the Novosibirsk State Art Museum, the Zimmerly Museum (New Jersey, USA) and others.