Vasily Vereshchagin

V. Vereshchagin 1902

"The Apotheosis of War"

Vereshchagin (Russian: Василий Василиевич Верещагин; 1842-1904) was a famous Russian painter of battle scenes, who made the war of the United States in Cuba and in the Philippines the subject of his latest work.

Vasily Vereshchagin Media

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  Vereshchagin during the period of graduation from the Naval Cadet Corps (1860s)

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  The Road of the War Prisoners (1878–1879). Brooklyn Museum

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  Suppression of the Indian Revolt by the English (1884)

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  Vereshchagin in his atelier; 1890s

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  Letter to mother (1901) from the series dedicated to the Philippine–American War in 1898–1899

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  Lully (Gypsy) (1867–1868)

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  Portrait of a man in a white turban (1867)

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  Uzbek boy (1867–1868)

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  Dervishes in festive outfits (1869–1870)