biography
| name: |
Vereshchagin, Vasili
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pronunciation:
[vyereshchahgyin]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1842–1904)
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| biography:
| Painter of battles, born in Cherepovets, NW Russia. He was educated at the St Petersburg Academy, and studied art under Gérome in Paris. He travelled widely as a war correspondent, and portrayed what he saw in gruesomely realistic pictures of plunder, mutilated corpses, and executions, with Tolstoy's aim of fostering revulsion against war. He was killed in the Russian–Japanese War (1904–5). |
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