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Viktor Vasnetsov

1848 - 1926

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Viktor Mikhaylovich Vasnetsov (Russian: Ви́ктор Миха́йлович Васнецо́в; 15 May (N.S.), 1848 – 23 July 1926) was a Russian artist who specialised in mythological and historical subjects. He is considered a co-founder of Russian folklorist and romantic nationalistic painting, and a key figure in the Russian Revivalist movement. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Viktor Vasnetsov is the 299th most popular painter (up from 306th in 2019), the 263rd most popular biography from Russia (up from 286th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Russian Painter.

Vasnetsov was a Russian painter who is most famous for his painting "The Bogatyrs".

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Among painters, Viktor Vasnetsov ranks 299 out of 2,023. Before him are Martin Schongauer, Masolino da Panicale, Giorgio Morandi, Jacques Callot, H. R. Giger, and François Clouet. After him are Paul Delvaux, Erwin Bowien, Willem Claesz. Heda, Gerard David, Ludovico Carracci, and Joachim Patinir.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1848, Viktor Vasnetsov ranks 17. Before him are Hugo de Vries, Helmuth von Moltke the Younger, Albert I, Prince of Monaco, Arthur Balfour, Tōgō Heihachirō, and Aleksey Kuropatkin. After him are Robert I, Duke of Parma, Wilhelm Windelband, Stepan Makarov, Wyatt Earp, Loránd Eötvös, and Carl Wernicke. Among people deceased in 1926, Viktor Vasnetsov ranks 24. Before him are Rudolph Valentino, Aleksei Brusilov, Louise of Sweden, Nikola Pašić, Margherita of Savoy, and John Browning. After him are Karl Harrer, Constantin Fehrenbach, William Bateson, John Louis Emil Dreyer, Mikao Usui, and Ugyen Wangchuck.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Viktor Vasnetsov ranks 263 out of 3,761. Before him are Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg (1599), Alexandre Kojève (1902), Vasily Blyukher (1889), Algirdas Julien Greimas (1917), Johann Georg Hamann (1730), and Viktor Korchnoi (1931). After him are Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich of Russia (1891), Igor Kurchatov (1903), Viktor Chernomyrdin (1938), Duke Alexander of Württemberg (1804), Vladimir Ashkenazy (1937), and Nikolai Yudenich (1862).

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Among PAINTERS In Russia

Among painters born in Russia, Viktor Vasnetsov ranks 8. Before him are Andrei Rublev (1360), Ivan Shishkin (1832), Nicholas Roerich (1874), Alexej von Jawlensky (1864), Ivan Kramskoi (1837), and Natalia Goncharova (1881). After him are Vasily Vereshchagin (1842), Marianne von Werefkin (1860), Vasily Perov (1834), Lovis Corinth (1858), Karl Bryullov (1799), and Mikhail Vrubel (1856).

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