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Vereschchagin, Vasily Vasilyevich

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Vereschchagin, Vasily Vasilyevich (1842–1904)

Russian painter and war correspondent. He travelled widely in Asia and the Middle East. Many of his pictures expose the horrors of war, such as Apotheosis of War 1871 (Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow), a pyramid of skulls.

Born in St Petersburg, he studied there and in Paris. He was with the Russian forces in the Turkestan campaign 1867, visited India, the Himalayas, and Tibet 1873, went through the Russo-Turkish war of 1877, and travelled in Palestine and Syria 1884. He was killed in the flagship Petropavlovsk during the Russo-Japanese War. His Kirghiz Hunter with Falcon (Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow) is a vigorous portrait.



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