Vasily Vasilyevich Vereshchagin (October 26, 1842 – April 13, 1904) was a very well-known Russian war painter and one of the first Russian artists to be widely recognized outside of Russia. His realist scenes were often too graphic to be printed and exhibited publicly. Learn more »
Paintings by Vasily Vereshchagin in Chronological Order
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| Presentation of the bosses (Russian officer and Caucasians), 1864 | Warrant Officer Hassan-Beck Dzhagranov, 1864 | Burlak who hold hands on the strap, 1866 |
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| Burlak with the cap in his hand, 1866 | Burlaks, 1866 | Elbrus, 1867 |
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| Kazakh with his national headdress, c.1867 | Kazakh with fur hat, c.1867 | Portrait of a bacha, c.1867 |
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| Afghan, 1868 | After failure, 1868 | After Success, 1868 |
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| Boy-Uzbek, 1868 | Lully (Gypsy), 1868 | Eaters of opium, 1868 |
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| Ruins in Chuguchak, 1869 | A Garden gate in Chuguchak, 1870 | Afghan, 1870 |
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| Arab on camel, 1870 | Beggars in Samarkand, 1870 | Camel in the courtyard of caravanserai, 1870 |
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| China tent, 1870 | Chorus of Dervishes, begging. Tashkent, 1870 | Dervishes in holiday costumes. Tashkent, 1870 |
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| Dutar-player, 1870 | Eunuch at the door of the harem, 1870 | Gur Emir Mausoleum. Samarkand, 1870 |
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| In the Alatau mountains, 1870 | Kalmyk chapel, 1870 | Kalmyk-lama, 1870 |
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| Kyrgyz, 1870 | Kyrgyz tent on the Chu River, 1870 | Main Street in Samarkand, from the height of the citadel in the early morning, 1870 |
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| Mausoleum of Shah-i-Zinda in Samarkand, 1870 | Migrations Kirghiz, 1870 | Nomadic road in the mountains of Ala Tau, 1870 |
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| Politicians in opium shop. Tashkent., 1870 | Ruins of a Theater in Chuguchak, 1870 | Samarkand, 1870 |
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| Shir Dor madrasah in Registan Square in Samarkand, 1870 | The children of the tribe Solonov, 1870 | The interior of the yurt of rich Kirghiz, 1870 |
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| The ruins of the Chinese shrine. Ak-Kent, 1870 | A rich Kyrgyz hunter with a falcon, 1871 | At the Fortress Walls. Let them Enter, 1871 |
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| Tamerlan”s gate, 1871 | The Apotheosis of War, 1871 | Unawares attack, 1871 |
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| Present trophies, 1872 | The Doors of Tamerlane, 1872 | The Sale of the Child Slave, 1872 |
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| Triumph, 1872 | About the war, 1873 | At the Door of a Mosque, 1873 |
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| Bukhara soldiers (Sarbaz), 1873 | Chinese, 1873 | Indian, 1873 |
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| Kalmyk-lama, 1873 | Looking out, 1873 | Mortally Wounded, 1873 |
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| Mullah Rahim and Mullah Karim quarrel on his way to the market, 1873 | Temple in Tokyo, 1873 | Turkestan officer, when there will no campaign, 1873 |
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| Turkestan soldiers in the winter form, 1873 | Uzbek dishes seller, 1873 | Uzbek Woman in Tashkent, 1873 |
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| Bhil, 1874 | Buddhist temple in Darjeeling. Sikkim, 1874 | Evening on the lake. One of the pavilions on the marble promenade in Radzhnagar (Principality of Udaipur), 1874 |
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| Radzhnagar. Marble, adorned with bas-reliefs quay on the lake in Udaipur, 1874 | Buddhist lama in a monastery on a holiday Pemionchi. Sikkim, 1875 | Buddhist Prayer Machine, 1875 |
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| Coolie (porter), 1875 | Gate near the Qutub Minar. Old Delhi, 1875 | Glacier on the way from Kashmir to Ladakh, 1875 |
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| Hemis Monastery in Ladakh, 1875 | Himalayan ponies, 1875 | Himalayas in the evening, 1875 |
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| Himalayas. The main peak, 1875 | Indian motif, 1875 | Monastery in a Rock. Ladakh, 1875 |
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| Mountain stream in Kashmir, 1875 | Posthumous monuments in Ladakh, 1875 | The three main gods in a Chingacheling Buddhist monastery in Sikkim, 1875 |
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| Throne Hall of the Great Mughal Shah Jahan and Aurang-Zeb in Delhi Fort, 1875 | Vehicle in Delhi, 1875 | Vehicle of rich people in Delhi, 1875 |
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| Yaqui, 1875 | Bania (trader). Bombay, 1876 | Brahminic temple in Adelnure, 1876 |
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| Fakir, 1876 | Fakirs, 1876 | In India. Himalayas snow, 1876 |
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| Moti Masjid (Pearl Mosque), Agra, 1876 | Parsi priest (fire-worshiper). Bombay, 1876 | Roses in Ladakh, 1876 |
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| Sowar, the Messenger of the Government, 1876 | Statue of Vishnu in the temple of Indra in Ellora, 1876 | Taj Mahal Mausoleum, 1876 |
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| Taj Mahal Mausoleum, 1876 | The colonnade in the Jain temple at Mount Abu in the evening, 1876 | Tomb of Sheikh Salim Chishti in Fatehpur Sikri, 1876 |
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| West Tibetans, 1876 | Cart for the Wounded, 1877 | Moving columns of M.D. Skobelev through the Balkans, 1878 |
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| Corner of the Turkish Redoubt Captured on May 30 but Abandoned on May 31, 1877 | Bashi-bazouk (Albanian), 1878 | Frozen corpses of Turkish soldiers, 1878 |
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| Picket in the Balkan Mountains, c.1878 | Soldiers in the snow, 1878 | At Shipka all is quiet , 1879 |
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| Defeated. Requiem, 1879 | Dressing station, 1879 | Picket on the Danube, 1879 |
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| Shipka field, 1879 | Spy, 1879 | Two hawks (Bashi-bazouk), 1879 |
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| Winners, 1879 | Site of the Battle Fought on July 18, 1877 in front of the Krishin Redoubt near Plevna, 1880 | The rider in Jaipur, c.1880 |
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| After the attack. Dressing station near Plevna, 1881 | Before the attack. At Plevna, 1881 | Mounted Warrior in Jaipur, c.1881 |
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| Snowy trenches (Russian position on the Shipka Pass), 1881 | Cannon, 1883 | Moslem Servant, 1883 |
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| Blowing from Guns in British India, 1884 | Two Jews, 1884 | In Jerusalem. Royal tombs, 1885 |
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| Solomon”s Wall, 1885 | Before the Confession at the Entrance to a Village Church, 1888 | Interior of the Church of St. John the Evangelist on the Ishna near Rostov Yaroslavsky, 1888 |
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| Retired Butler, 1888 | The iconostasis of the church of John the Theologian on Ishna near Rostov Yaroslavsky, 1888 | The porch of the church of John the Baptist in Tolchkovo. Yaroslavl, 1888 |
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| Beggar, Ninety Six Years Old, c.1891 | Carved pillar in the refectory of the Petropavlovsk church in the village Puchugi in Vologda province, 1894 | Interior of the Wooden Church of St. Peter and St. Paul in Puchug, 1894 |
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| The icon of St. Nicholas with headwater Pinega, 1894 | The Northern Dvina, 1894 | Zyrian, 1894 |
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| At Gorodnia. Breakthrough or Withdraw, 1895 | At the Assumption Cathedral, 1895 | Bayonet Charge. Hurrah-Hurrah, 1895 |
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| Captured with arms – Shoot them, 1895 | In the Kremlin – A Fire, 1895 | Napoleon in the Petroff Palace, 1895 |
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| On the road. Retreat and escape, 1895 | On the Way. Bad News From France, 1895 | The Return from the Petroff Palace, 1895 |
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| Wait. Let them come nearer, 1895 | Cape Fiolent near Sevastopol, 1897 | Napoleon near Borodino, 1897 |
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| The entrance door to the church under the Kazbek, 1897 | The Night Bivouac of the Great Army, 1897 | In Defeated Moscow ( Arsonists or Shooting in the Kremlin), 1898 |
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| Kazbek, 1898 | The Mount Kazbek, 1898 | Marshal Davout in the Chudovo Convent, 1900 |
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| Napoleon and general Lauriston ( Peace at all costs), 1900 | The end of Borodino battle, 190 | In the Hospital, 1901 |
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| Interrogation of the renegade, c.1901 | Interrupted Letter, 1901 | Spy, 1901 |
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| Wounded, 1901 | Japanese, 1903 | In a Boat, 1904 |
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| Japanese Beggar, c.1904 | Japanese Priest, 1904 | Sinto Temple in Nikko, c.1904 |
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| Before Moscow – waiting for the deputation of boyars | Cannibal | Crimean mountains |
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| Entrance to a Temple in Nikko | In the mountains | In the park |
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| Japanese Woman | Kurile Islands | Kyrgyz girl |
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| On the Bridge | Passage of Barskaun | Protection of Holy Trinity Monastery |
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| Riders, swimming the river | Sea | Sukhum-Kale |
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| Trinity Sunday. Village Kolomna | Russian Camp in Turkestan |