Vereshchagino biography

Biography of Vereshchagin: Vasily Vasilievich Vereshchagin was born on October 14 in the family of the leader of the city of Cherepovets of the Novgorod province. Like his brothers, he studies in the military and, already at the age of 9, enters the Marine Cadet Corps in St. Petersburg. At the end, he did not last long, but he retired for admission to the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts studied from for a year.

Without finally finishing up, he leaves St. Petersburg and leaves for the Caucasus to write from nature. But then, Vereshchagin decides to return to training and learns painting in Paris under the leadership of Jean-Leon Geron, a French artist, an ardent supporter of academism in art, opposition to impressionism from the GG. Then the young Vereshchagin occurs a strange period.

He throws Paris and leaves for the Caucasus again, works a lot, and in the fall he goes to St. Petersburg where, perhaps, he received critical comments on his work. Then, again returns to Paris where he continues to study at the Paris Academy. In the spring of the year, Vasily Vereshchagin returns to the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts and completes his official training. In the year, Vereshchagin accepted the invitation of the Turkestan Governor General K.

Kaufman to come to Samarkand as a military artist with the rank of warrant officer. And almost immediately finds himself in the center of hostilities. The small Samarkand garrison of Russian soldiers left in the city is forced to heroically defend themselves from the rebellious local residents. Vereshchagin managed to distinguish himself in defense, lifting the fighters in a counterattack.

For which he was awarded the Order of St. George of the 4th Art. In the year it organizes the "Turkestan exhibition", where it demonstrates its work. At the end, he returns to Turkestan. Then he makes a trip to Western China, observes the brutal suppression of the Dungan uprising, and participates in the conquest of Turkestan. In the year, Vereshchagin goes to Munich, where he works on paintings for the "Turkestan series".

Holds exhibitions of GG. In the year, he arranged a personal exhibition of paintings in a crystal palace in London. In the spring of the year he returns to Russia and holds an exhibition in St. Petersburg, at which he is criticized by Emperor Alexander II and his environment. In gg. Vereshchagin lives in India, also leaving for Tibet, and in the spring of G.

with the beginning of the Russo-Turkish war of G. and in the same year Vereshchagin was seriously wounded aboard the Pike the destroyer. In the years, Vereshchagin travels again around India, Syria, Palestine. In the year, the artist is working on a series of paintings dedicated to the war of the year. It spends summer in the Crimea in the year. In the year, he visited Japan in the year.

The authority of Vereshchagin in Europe as a “fighter with a war” is such that in the year he is put forward to the first Nobel Peace Nobel Prize. With the beginning of the Russo-Japanese War, Vereshchagin finds himself in the current fleet. Vasily Vereshchagin died on March 31 of the year. The battleship Petropavlovsk, on which the artist was located, was blown up on a mine on the outer raid of Port Arthur.

Vasily Vasilievich Vereshchagin in the workshop of his house: House in the village. The lower boilers are the next surroundings of Moscow at the beginning of the twentieth century. In the history of Russian fine art, there was another Russian artist Vereshchagin Vasily Petrovich painter and portrait painter. Who was also a talented buzzing and lived at the same time gg.

And he graduated from the same Imperial Academy of Arts. On the Internet you can find examples when some paintings by Vereshchagin V. especially paintings with religious plots.