Vasily Vereshchagin

1842–1904 · Realism

Vasily Vasilyevich Vereshchagin 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.

40 paintings

• After the attack. Plevna, 1877-1878 (1881)
• By the Fortress Wall. "Let Them Enter" (1871)
• Snowy Mountainsides
• Shipka-Sheinovo. Skobelev at Shipka (1878)
• Bukhara soldier (1873)
• Main Street in Samarkand, from the height of the citadel in the early morning (1869)
• Tamerlan's Doors (1872)
• Dervishes in Festive Dress. Tashkent (1870)
• The Adjutant (1882)
• Kyrgyz (1869)
• Gur Emir mausoleum. Samarkand (1869)
• Mullah Rahim and Mullah Kerim on his way to the bazaar are quarreling (1873)
• A group of musicians playing for a bacha dancing boy (1867)
• About war (1873)
• A Garden gate in Chuguchak (1869)
• Spying out (1873)
• They are triumphant (1872)
• The Kremlin is on fire! (1850)
• Fix Bayonets! Hooray! Hooray! (1891)
• Nomadic road in the Alatau Mountains (1869)
• The Spy
• Василий Верещагин Самарканд (1869)
• Portrait of a Peasant (1901)
• A Resting Place of Prisoners (1870)
• The Apotheosis of War (1871)
• A Rich Kirghiz Huntsman with a Falcon (1871)
• They Attack Unaware (1871)
• Mortally wounded (1873)
• Buddhist Temple in Darjiling. Sikkim (1874)
• Evening on a Lake. A Pavilion on the Marble Embankment in Rajnagar (Udaipur principality) (1874)
• Inside the Tent of a Rich Kirghiz (1869)
• Mounted Warrior in Jaipur (1881)
• Himalayan Ponies (1875)
• Fakirs (1875)
• Icon of St Nicholas from the Upper Reaches of the River Pinega (1894)
• Winter Landscape (1890)
• Medrasah Shir-Dhor at Registan place in Samarkand (1869)
• After the Fight (1925)
• Crucifixion (1887)
• Pearl Mosque, Delhi (1880)