Viktor Nikitich Lazarev (Russian: Ви́ктор Ники́тич Ла́зарев; 3 September (22 August O.S.) 1897—1 February 1976) was a Russian art critic and historian who specialized in medieval Byzantine, Russian, and Armenian religious art. He was the son of Nikita Lazarev, a Moscow architect, and was related by blood to Wassily Kandinsky.Viktor studied at the Moscow State University in 1917—1920, and graduated from the Faculty of History and Philology.