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Vasily Grigorevich Perov (; 2 January 1834 O.S. 21 December 1833">Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates.html" ;"title="nowiki/>Old Style and New Style dates">O.S. 21 December 1833– 10 June [O.S. 29 May] 1882) was a Russian painter, a key figure of the Russian Realism (arts), Realist movement and one of the founding members of Peredvizhniki.
Vasily Perov was born on 2 January 1834 (21 December 1833 Old Style) in Tobolsk, Tobolsk Governorate, 
In 1862, after receiving the right to a state-paid trip abroad together with a golden medal, Perov traveled to 
Perov died on 10 June (29 May O.S.), 1882 in the village Kuzminki, now Kuzminki District of Moscow) from
File:Перов Автопортрет.jpg,
Perov at Olga's Gallery
* ttp://www.tanais.info/art/en/perov.html Vasily Perov at Tanais Gallery {{DEFAULTSORT:Perov, Vasily 1834 births 1882 deaths People from Tobolsk People from Tobolsky Uyezd Realist painters from the Russian Empire Peredvizhniki Male painters from the Russian Empire 19th-century painters from the Russian Empire Tuberculosis deaths in the Russian Empire 19th-century deaths from tuberculosis 19th-century male artists from the Russian Empire Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture alumni Academic staff of the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture
Life and career
Vasily Perov was born on 2 January 1834 (21 December 1833 Old Style) in Tobolsk, Tobolsk Governorate, Russian Empire
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, as Vasily Grigorevich Vasiliev (Василий Григорьевич Васильев). Perov was an illegitimate son of the local procurator baron
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, Baron Gregor Gustav Friedrich von Krüdener, who belonged to a German and Baltic German noble family, which belonged to the Uradel
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, and a Russian, Akulina Ivanova, a native citizen of Tobolsk. Although Perov's parents married soon after his birth, there was no legal way to inherit his father's name and baron title, so he was registered under his godfather's surname — Vasiliev. He later changed his surname to Perov — a nickname given to him by his teacher who taught him calligraphy
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as a child (the word ''pero'' means ''feather
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'' in Russian).
After completing a course at Arzamas
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History
Arzamas ...
uyezd school, Perov was transferred to the '' Alexander Stupin art school'' also located in Arzamas
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History
Arzamas ...
. In 1853, Perov was admitted to the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in Moscow
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, where he learned from several renowned artists.
In 1856, Perov was awarded with a minor silver medal, presented to the Imperial Academy of Arts, for his sketch of a boy's head. Later the Academy gave him many other awards: in 1857 a major silver medal for ''Commissary of Rural Police Investigating'', a minor golden medal for the ''Scene on a Grave'' and the ''Son of a Dyak Promoted to First Rank'', and in 1861 a major golden medal for ''Sermon in a Village''.
In 1862, after receiving the right to a state-paid trip abroad together with a golden medal, Perov traveled to Western Europe
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, visiting several German cities, and then Paris
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. During this time he created paintings depicting scenes from European streetlife, such as the ''Vendor of statuettes'', the ''Savoyard'', the ''Organ-Grinder in Paris'', the ''Musicians and the Bystanders'', and the ''Paris Ragpickers''.
Returning to Moscow
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early, from 1865 to 1871 Perov created his best known pieces, ''The Queue at The Fountain'', ''A Meal in the Monastery'', ''Last Journey'', ''Troika'', the ''Lent Monday'', ''Arrival of a New Governess in a Merchant House'', the ''Drawing Teacher'', ''A Scene at the Railroad'', the ''Last Tavern at Town Gate'', the ''Birdcatcher'', the ''Fisherman'', and the ''Hunters at Rest''.
In 1866, Perov received the title of an academician, and in 1871 the position of a professor at Moscow School of Arts, Sculpture and Architecture. It was around this period that Perov joined the Peredvizhniki, a collective of Russian realist painters formed as an artists cooperative in protest of academic restrictions.
Perov died on 10 June (29 May O.S.), 1882 in the village Kuzminki, now Kuzminki District of Moscow) from tuberculosis
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, and his body was interred at the Donskoy Cemetery.
Selected works
Self-portrait
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(1851)
File:Перов Автопортрет 2.png, Self-portrait
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(1870)
File:Wassilij Grigorjewitsch Perow 009.jpg, Paris Ragman (1864)
File:Wassilij Grigorjewitsch Perow 002.jpg, The Drowned (1867)
File:Alexander Ostrovsky by Vasily Perov.jpg, Alexander Ostrovsky (1871)
File:Vasily Perov - Портрет Ф.М.Достоевского - Google Art Project.jpg, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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(1872)
File:Перов Странник (Саратов).jpg, Old man (1868)
File:Перов Сцена.jpg, A Scene at the Railroad (1868)
File:Перов Голубятник.jpg, The Bird-Catcher (1870)
File:Спящие дети1.JPG, Sleeping Children (1870)
File:Wassilij Grigorjewitsch Perow 006.jpg, Easter Procession
File:Perov guvernanka kupe.jpg, A Governess Arriving at a Merchant's House
File:Перов Суд Пугачева (ГИМ).jpg, Pugachev's Judgement (1879)
File:Nikita Pustosviat. Dispute on the Confession of Faith.jpg, '' Nikita Pustosvyat. Debate about faith'' (1881)
File:Чаепитие в Мытищах, близ Москвы.jpg, Drinking tea in Mytishchi, near Moscow.
File:Тройка - Василий Григорьевич Перов (1866).jpg, '
References
External links
Perov at Olga's Gallery
* ttp://www.tanais.info/art/en/perov.html Vasily Perov at Tanais Gallery {{DEFAULTSORT:Perov, Vasily 1834 births 1882 deaths People from Tobolsk People from Tobolsky Uyezd Realist painters from the Russian Empire Peredvizhniki Male painters from the Russian Empire 19th-century painters from the Russian Empire Tuberculosis deaths in the Russian Empire 19th-century deaths from tuberculosis 19th-century male artists from the Russian Empire Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture alumni Academic staff of the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture