Vasily Vasilyevich Vereshchagin (; 26 October 184213 April 1904) was a Russian painter,

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, and traveller. The graphic nature of his realist scenes led to many of them never being printed or exhibited to the public.Kowner, '' Historical Dictionary of the Russo-Japanese War'', p. 408.

Years of apprenticeship

Vereshchagin was born at Cherepovets, Novgorod Governorate,

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, in 1842 as the middle of three brothers. His father was a landowner of noble birth, while his mother was of common origin and had Tatar roots. When he was eight years old, he was sent to Tsarskoe Selo to enter the Alexander Cadet Corps. Three years later, he entered the Naval Cadet Corps at St. Petersburg, making his first voyage in 1858. He served on the

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, which sailed to

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, and

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. Vereshchagin graduated first in his list at the naval school, but left the service immediately to begin the study of drawing in earnest. Two years later, in 1863, he won a medal from the Imperial Academy of Arts for his ''Ulysses Slaying the Suitors''. In 1864, he proceeded to

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, where he studied under

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, though he dissented widely from his master's methods.

Travels in Central Asia

In the

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of 1866, Vereshchagin exhibited a drawing of '' Dukhobors chanting their Psalms''. In the next year, he was invited to accompany General Konstantin Petrovich Kaufman's expedition in

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and

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. He was granted the rank of ensign. His heroism at the siege of Samarkand from 2–8 June 1868 resulted an award of the Cross of St. George (4th Class). He was an indefatigable traveller, returning to St. Petersburg in late 1868, to Paris in 1869, back to St. Petersburg later in the year, and then back to Turkestan via

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at the end of 1869. In 1871, Vereshchagin established an atelier in

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. He gave a solo exhibition of his works (later referred to as his " Turkestan Series") at the Crystal Palace in

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in 1873. He gave another exhibition of his works in St. Petersburg in 1874, where two of his paintings, namely, '' The Apotheosis of War'', dedicated "to all conquerors, past, present and to come," and ''Left Behind'', the picture of a dying soldier deserted by his fellows, were denied a showing on the grounds that they portrayed the

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in a poor light. In late 1874, Vereshchagin departed in Northern and

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for an extensive tour of the

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, and

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. The Emir of Bukhara and the city's notables watch how the heads of Russian soldiers are impaled on poles. File:Медресе Шир-Дор на площади Регистан в Самарканде.jpg, '' Sher-Dor Madrasa on

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in Darjiling.

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Russo-Turkish War

With the start of the Second Russo-Turkish War, Vereshchagin left Paris and returned to active service with the

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. He was present at the crossing of the Shipka Pass and at the siege of Plevna (1877), where his brother was killed. He was dangerously wounded during the preparations for the crossing of the

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near Rustchuk. At the conclusion of the war, he acted as secretary to General Skobelev at San Stefano.

World fame

After the war, Vereshchagin settled in

, where he produced his war pictures so rapidly that he was freely accused of employing assistants. The sensational subjects of his pictures, and their didactic aim, namely, the promotion of peace by a representation of the horrors of war, attracted a large section of the public not usually interested in art to the series of exhibitions of his pictures in Paris in 1881, and subsequently in

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, and other cities. Vereshchagin painted several scenes of imperial rule in

. His epic portrayal of ''The State Procession of the Prince of Wales into Jaipur in 1876'' is at believed to be the second-largest oil painting in the world. He traveled again to India in 1882–1883. Vereshchagin-Blowing from Guns in British India

Vereshchagin-Blowing from Guns in British India

He aroused much controversy by his series of three pictures: firstly, of a Roman execution (the ''Crucifixion by the Romans (1887)''); secondly, '' Suppression of the Indian Revolt by the English''; and, thirdly, of the execution of

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in St Petersburg. When ''Suppression of the Indian Revolt by the English'' was first exhibited, many in America and Britain believed that it depicted executions of sepoys carried out by tying victims to the barrels of guns. Vereshchagin's detractors argued that such executions had only occurred in the

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, but the painting depicted modern soldiers of the 1880s, implying that the practice was then current. Because of its photographic style, the painting appeared to present itself as an impartial record of a real event. In fact, Vereshchagin's work did show a more contemporary though lesser known execution; in 1872 Deputy-Commissioner J. L. Cowan ordered the execution of a group of Namdhari Sikhs at the parade grounds in Malerkotla by blowing from guns. In 1887, Vereshchagin defended himself in '' The Magazine of Art'' by saying that if there were another rebellion then the British would use this method again. A journey to the Ottoman provinces of

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and

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in 1884 furnished him with an equally discussed set of subjects from the

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. Vereshchagin's paintings caused controversy over his portrayal of the figure of Christ with what was thought at the time to be an unseemly realism. The ''1812'' series on

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's Russian campaign, on which Vereshchagin also wrote a book, seems to have been inspired by

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's ''

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'', and was painted in 1893 in

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, where the artist eventually settled.

Last years

Vasily Vereshchagin - Letter to the mother - from the series dedicated to the Philippine-American War in 1898-1899

Vereshchagin was in the Far East during the

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of 1894–1895, and was with the Russian troops in

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during the

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of 1900. In 1901, he visited the

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, in 1902 the United States and

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, and in 1903,

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. During the

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, he was invited by Admiral Stepan Makarov to join him aboard Makarov's battleship, . On April 13, 1904, ''Petropavlovsk'' struck two mines while returning to Port Arthur and sank, taking with it most of the crew, including both Admiral Makarov and Vereshchagin. Vereshchagin's last work, a picture of a council of war presided over by Admiral Makarov, was recovered almost undamaged.

Legacy

* The town of Vereshchagino in

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is named after him, as well as a

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, 3410 Vereshchagin, discovered by

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astronomer Lyudmila Zhuravlyova in 1978. * Vereshchagin Street in Cherepovets is named after Vasily Vereshchagin, also there are a historic house museum and a monument to Vereshchagin in Cherepovets. * He is a distant relative of the

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rock singer Aleš Brichta. ''The Apotheosis of War'' was used by Czech heavy metal band Arakain as the cover art for the album ''Farao''.

Gallery

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' Deputation'' File:В покоренной Москве.jpg, '' In Defeated Moscow'' File:Through the fire by Vereschagin.jpg, ''Through the fire'' File:In Petrovsky palace (Waiting for peace) by V.Vereschagin.jpg, ''In Petrovsky Palace (Waiting for peace)'' File:Vaszilij Vasziljevics Verescsagin orosz festőművész. Fortepan 25843.jpg, Vereshchagin with his wife Lydia and son Vasily at the ''In Petrovsky Palace'' painting. 1895–1896 File:Peaceatallcosts.JPG, ''Napoleon and general Lauriston (Peace at all costs!)'' File:На большой дороге. Отступление, бегство.jpg, ''On the high road. Retreat, flight'' File:The Attack by Vereshchagin (1887-1895, GIM).jpg, ''Fix Bayonets! Hooray! Hooray!'' (the Battle of Krasnoi) File:Night Bivouac of Great Army.jpg, ''Night Bivouac of Great Army'' File:Winners, by Vasily Vereshchagin (1878).jpg, ''Victors'' File:Перед атакой. Под Плевной.jpg, ''Before the attack. At Plevna'' File:After the attack. Plevna, 1877-1878.jpg, ''After the Attack'' 1878 Vereshchagin Schlachtfeld am Schipkapass anagoria.JPG, ''The battlefield at Shipka (Skobelev at Shipka)'' File:Artlib gallery-13875-o.jpg, ''Defeated. Requiem'' File:Vasily Vasilevich Vereshchagin, The Spy.jpg, ''The Spy'' File:Пикет на Дунае.jpg, '' Picket on the Danube'' File:Два ястреба (Башибузуки).jpg, ''Two hawks ( Bashi-bazouk)'' File:В турецкой покойницкой .jpg, ''In a Turkish mortuary'' File:Василий В. Верещагин - Aдъютант.jpg, ''The

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'' File:Японка.jpg, ''Japanese woman''

Notes

References

* * * Kowner, Rotem (2006). "Historical Dictionary of the Russo-Japanese War". Scarecrow. 620pp. * Leonard D. Abbott, "Verestchagin, Painter of War." ''The Comrade'' (New York), vol. 1, no. 7 (April 1902), pp. 155–156. *Art Institute of Chicago, ''Works of Vassili Verestchagin: an Illustrated, descriptive catalogue and two appendixes to the catalogue Realism and Progress in Art by Verestchagin''. *W. T. Stead, "Vassili Verestchagin: Character Sketch," ''Review of Reviews'' (London), vol. 19 (January 1899), frontispiece, 22–33. *Maria Chernysheva,
The Russian Gérôme? Vereshchagin as a Painter of Turkestan
" ''RIHA Journal'', September 2014.

External links

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Vereshchagin page at Olga's GalleryVasily Vereshchagin: horrors of war through artist’s eyes
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