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- Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
- Sprache: Englisch
- Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2024
Vasily Vereshchagin (1842 -1904) was a Russian soldier, painter and traveller. He was born to a lesser noble family and sent to the Tsarskoe Selo military academy in 1850, 8 years old. in 1853, 11 years old he joined the Sea Cadet Corps in St Petersburg. He graduated in 1861 but left military service to attend the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts. In 1863 he won a medal from the academy for his Ulysses Slaying the Suitors. In 1864, he went to Paris, 22 years old, where he studied under Jean-Léon Gérôme. In 1867 he was invited to accompany General Konstantin Kaufman's expedition to Turkestan. He was granted the rank of ensign. His heroism at the siege of Samarkand from June 2-8, 1868 resulted an award of the Cross of St George (4th class). Having jointed the diplomatic corps, Vereshchagin was posted throughout Central Asia, and his artistic skills matured. In 1871 he set up a studio in Munich and it was here the initial "Turkestan Series" was painted.
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Introduction
Vasily Vereshchagin (1842–1904) was a Russian soldier, painter and traveller. He was born to a lesser noble family and sent to the Tsarskoe Selo military academy in 1850, 8 years old. in 1853, 11 years old he joined the Sea Cadet Corps in St Petersburg. He graduated in 1861 but left military service to attend the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts.
In 1863 he won a medal from the academy for his Ulysses Slaying the Suitors. In 1864, he went to Paris, 22 years old, where he studied under Jean-Léon Gérôme.
In 1867 he was invited to accompany General Konstantin Kaufman's expedition to Turkestan. He was granted the rank of ensign. His heroism at the siege of Samarkand from June 2–8, 1868 resulted an award of the Cross of St George (4th class).
Having jointed the diplomatic corps, Vereshchagin was posted throughout Central Asia, and his artistic skills matured. In 1871 he set up a studio in Munich and it was here the initial “Turkestan Series” was painted.
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A photograph of Vasily Vereshchagin. Before 1904.
Vasily Vereshchagin. This image was used in the article "Vereshchagin, Vasily Vasilyevich" published in the sixth volume of the "Military Encyclopedia", which was published by the publishing partnership of Ivan Dmitrievich Sytin in 1911 in the capital of the Russian Empire, the city of St. Petersburg.
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Vasily Vereshchagin
Vasily Vereshchagin was born October 26, 1842 in Cherepovets, Novgorod Governorate, Russia. He died April 13, 1904 (aged 61) at Port Arthur, Russia (now China). He was Russian by nationality and held the rank of professor (1874). Vereshchagin held the Order of St. George (4th class).
Novgorod is by the way one of the oldest cities in Russia, first mentioned in the 9th century, being on the Volkhov River between Moscow and St Petersburg. It was a large city on the Viking trade route to Constantinople long before being mentioned in the Christian monastery archives.
Vasily Vasilyevich Vereshchagin was one of the most famous Russian war artists and one of the first Russian artists to be widely recognized abroad, but the graphic nature of his realist scenes led to many of them never being printed or exhibited. Vereshchagin was the middle of three brothers. His father was a landowner of noble birth, while his mother was of common origin and had Tatar roots. In 1850, when he was eight years old, he was sent to Tsarskoe Selo to enter the Alexander Cadet Corps established to teach orphan minors and sons of noble veterans. Three years later, in 1853, he entered the Sea Cadet Corps at St Petersburg, making his first voyage in 1858, now 16 years old. He served on the frigate Kamchatka, which sailed to Denmark, France and Egypt.
Vereshchagin graduated at the top of his class in the naval school with the rank of midshipman in 1861, now 19 years old, but left the service immediately to begin the study of drawing in earnest, something he had been doing on the side all through his schooling. He wanted to become a history painter. His father was so outraged by this that he cut all of Vereshchagin’s financial support. Two years later, in 1863, he won a medal from the St Petersburg Academy for his Ulysses Slaying the Suitors. This medal assured Vereshchagin the right to work as an artist and to not be obligated to return to military service under Russian law at the time. A historic restructuring happened during the time Vereshchagin was a student at the Imperial Academy. Vereshchagin left the Academy during this period and coincidentally inherited enough money from his uncle to allow him the possibility of continuing his education outside of Russia. There is no documentation that he actually graduated from the Imperial Academy, but in 1874 he was appointed as professor there, but declined the appointment.
In 1864, 22 years old, he moved to Paris, where he studied under Jean-Léon Gérôme, see cover of author´s book Napoleon in Egypt. It was here that Vereshchagin was exposed to the Orientalist
