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Vasily Vereshchagin

1842 - 1904

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Vasily Vasilyevich Vereshchagin (Russian: Васи́лий Васи́льевич Вереща́гин; 26 October 1842 – 13 April 1904) was a Russian painter, war artist, and traveller. The graphic nature of his realist scenes led to many of them never being printed or exhibited to the public. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Vasily Vereshchagin is the 321st most popular painter (down from 302nd in 2019), the 283rd most popular biography from Russia (down from 277th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Russian Painter.

Vasily Vereshchagin was a Russian painter who is most famous for his paintings of the Russo-Turkish War, including his painting of the Battle of Plevna.

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Among painters, Vasily Vereshchagin ranks 321 out of 2,023. Before him are Pierre Mignard, Carl Spitzweg, Shitao, Anton Mauve, Giacomo Balla, and Il Sodoma. After him are Federico Barocci, Max Beckmann, Taddeo Gaddi, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Max Liebermann, and Jules Joseph Lefebvre.

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Among people born in 1842, Vasily Vereshchagin ranks 19. Before him are Paul Lafargue, Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann, Arrigo Boito, Hermann Cohen, Osborne Reynolds, and James Dewar. After him are Georg Brandes, Sophus Lie, Okita Sōji, Ambrose Bierce, Édouard Lucas, and Jean Gaston Darboux. Among people deceased in 1904, Vasily Vereshchagin ranks 16. Before him are Jean-Léon Gérôme, Henry Morton Stanley, Eadweard Muybridge, Gabriel Tarde, Henri Fantin-Latour, and Abai Qunanbaiuly. After him are Stepan Makarov, Paul Kruger, George, King of Saxony, Émile Gallé, Lafcadio Hearn, and Eduard Hanslick.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Vasily Vereshchagin ranks 283 out of 3,761. Before him are Friedrich Karl Ludwig, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck (1757), Dmitry Yazov (1924), Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich of Russia (1847), Ivan II of Moscow (1326), Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich of Russia (1827), and Pitirim Sorokin (1889). After him are Fyodor Tolbukhin (1894), Igor Smirnov (1941), Ivan Silayev (1930), Nikolay Semyonov (1896), Oleg Antonov (1906), and Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin (1855).

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Among PAINTERS In Russia

Among painters born in Russia, Vasily Vereshchagin ranks 9. Before him are Ivan Shishkin (1832), Nicholas Roerich (1874), Alexej von Jawlensky (1864), Ivan Kramskoi (1837), Natalia Goncharova (1881), and Viktor Vasnetsov (1848). After him are Marianne von Werefkin (1860), Vasily Perov (1834), Lovis Corinth (1858), Karl Bryullov (1799), Mikhail Vrubel (1856), and Lyubov Popova (1889).

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