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More than 200 works by Vereshchagin to be displayed at the Russian Museum

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More than 200 works by Vereshchagin to be displayed at the Russian Museum


03.02.2017

Vereschagin The Doors of Tamerlane, 1873
The Russian Museum is preparing a major exhibition of works by Vasily Vereshchagin, according to the Federal Office of Culture portal. The exposition will be of more than two hundred paintings. 

Artworks for the exhibition will provided by the Tretyakov Gallery. Among the exhibits will be Vereshchagin’s early landscapes, portraits, and drawings. Also his series of Balkan and Turkestan art will be presented. The exhibition will be open for the public for two months beginning April, 20. 

The outstanding painter of battle scenes was born to a family of landlords in Cherepovets. He was educated at the St. Petersburg Sea Cadet Corps, where he studied painting at the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts, and then continued his studies at the Paris Academy of Fine Arts. Vereshchagin’s work was exhibited at the Paris Salon. 

The artist was tragically killed during the Russian-Japanese war in the explosion of the battleship Petropavlovsk in Port Arthur.

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