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Vasily Perov

1834 - 1882

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Vasily Grigorevich Perov (Russian: Василий Григорьевич Перов; 2 January 1834 [O.S. 21 December 1833] – 10 June [O.S. 29 May] 1882) was a Russian painter, a key figure of the Russian Realist movement and one of the founding members of Peredvizhniki. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Vasily Perov is the 362nd most popular painter (up from 408th in 2019), the 320th most popular biography from Russia (up from 393rd in 2019) and the 11th most popular Russian Painter.

Vasily Perov is most famous for his painting of the Russian peasantry, "Barge Haulers on the Volga".

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Vasily Perov ranks 362 out of 2,023. Before him are Francesco Albani, Catharina van Hemessen, David Teniers the Younger, Michael Ancher, Francesco Melzi, and Aleksandra Ekster. After him are David Alfaro Siqueiros, Édouard Vuillard, Asher Brown Durand, Balthus, Ferdinand Bol, and Luigi Russolo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1834, Vasily Perov ranks 16. Before him are Samuel Pierpont Langley, Léon Walras, Carl Bloch, August Weismann, Amilcare Ponchielli, and Jan Neruda. After him are Charles Spurgeon, Aleksis Kivi, Johann Philipp Reis, Norodom of Cambodia, John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton, and Kondō Isami. Among people deceased in 1882, Vasily Perov ranks 16. Before him are Bruno Bauer, Léon Gambetta, Louis Blanc, Joseph Liouville, John Nelson Darby, and William Stanley Jevons. After him are Thomas Hill Green, Princess Maria Pia of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Karl-Maria Kertbeny, Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald, and Sergey Nechayev.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Vasily Perov ranks 320 out of 3,761. Before him are Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna of Russia (1784), Feodor Chaliapin (1873), Gerhard Barkhorn (1919), Duchess Magdalene Sibylle of Prussia (1586), Alfred Schnittke (1934), and Viktor Shklovsky (1893). After him are Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich of Russia (1860), Oleg Penkovsky (1919), Sergius of Radonezh (1314), George Balanchine (1904), Vsevolod Meyerhold (1874), and Vasily Zhukovsky (1783).

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Among PAINTERS In Russia

Among painters born in Russia, Vasily Perov ranks 11. Before him are Alexej von Jawlensky (1864), Ivan Kramskoi (1837), Natalia Goncharova (1881), Viktor Vasnetsov (1848), Vasily Vereshchagin (1842), and Marianne von Werefkin (1860). After him are Lovis Corinth (1858), Karl Bryullov (1799), Mikhail Vrubel (1856), Lyubov Popova (1889), Valentin Serov (1865), and Ivan Bilibin (1876).

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