Nikin Petrovych Bezshchasnyi (1880s - late 1930s) was a bandura player, public figure, and participant in the anti-Bolshevik movement in the Kuban.
He was born in the village of Poltavska in the Kuban. Brother of Conon the Unfortunate. A graduate of the First Kuban Kobzar School (1913). A student of Vasyl Yemets. He played the diatonic bandura of the Kyiv master Antonii Paplynskyi. He has been performing since 1913. During the First World War, he was active as a soloist and member of small ensembles. He realised his beliefs by means of kobza art with arms in his hands. In the 1920s and early 1930s, he reached the peak of his performing skills. He was a virtuoso bandura player. He gave concerts in the North Caucasus, Don, and other regions of Greater Ukraine. He was arrested in the city of Dnipro. He died in the White Sea-Baltic hard labour camp (Karelia) from torture and exhaustion.
His repertoire includes the following songs and dumas: "Oh, why are you blackened", "Oh, Frost-Morozenko, you glorious Cossack", "Oh, from behind the mountain, from behind the estuary, around the Sich Zaporizhzhia, the Muscovite is besieging", "You, Kuban, you are our Motherland", and others. A great patriot of Ukraine, an associate of M. Riabovol.
