V. V. Vereshchagin: literary-artistic
cartographyof life and work

If the 19th century ever had a prophet, that was the Russian artist Vereshchagin.

From the English newspaper «Christian», dated December, the 2nd, 1887.

Vasily Vasilievich Vereshchagin

The name of Vasily Vasilievich Vereshchagin, a great artist and our countryman is often met in Cherepovets. In the city there is the Memorial house-museum of the Vereshchagin, Vereshchagin street, the monument to the famous artist, Vereshchagin square. Cherepovets regional college of arts and art crafts named after V.V. Vereshchagin and The city’s Central library are called after him.

Vasily Vasilievich Vereshchagin (October 14 (26), 1842 – March 31 (April 13), 1904) is the greatest Russian artist of the second part of the 19th century who stands out of all the art movements and schools; according to Aleksandr Benois, he is «the most popular personality in the Russian art not only in Russia, but all over the world at one point».

Besides art, V.V. Vereshchagin went in for literary activity. He wrote narratives, essays, memoirs, travel notes, publicist articles. It was a person of a curious fate. He was born in a district town of Cherepovets, Novgorodskaya province (now Cherepovets is a part of Vologda region). The parents of the promising artist seemed to foredoom his further life in the early childhood: they sent him to study the Naval cadet corps in St. Petersburg. However, V.V. Vereshchagin did his own way. He decided by himself where he should study, what to do, where and how to live, how to communicate with the powers.

He had his independent opinion, based on his own observation and experience and received during the far and hard expeditions too: «I remember pondering and thinking a lot at sea, then while travelling along the deserts and gorges of the mountains». The life of V.V. Vereshchagin was a great travel. He visited all the continents, except for Australia and Antarctica, he studied far-away countries and the Russian North, he lived in European capitals and in hardly accessible places. The artist draw what he had seen in these travels. The genre range of V.V. Vereshchagin was sketches and etudes, plot compositions, nature and architecture landscapes, portraits. In his works he reflected the world in a very realistic, precise way and reached omnitemporal generalization. The artist’s realism is not impartial photographic accurateness, the artist, for sure, expressed his attitude to what he drew. According to V.V. Vereshchagin, «the most strict dealing with all the details of creativity does not exclude the ideas, but contains them».

Time passes, historic events go away with it into the past. The artist’s works let the next generations – you and us - see this past. His works make us start thinking about the good and the evil, truth and patriotism, about the fact that the world is very various, but the man’s life is valuable and fragile. While observing the pictures of the artist, reading his literary works, every person may make his own discovery of V.V. Vereshchagin.

Cartography of the life
and work of V. V. Vereshchagin

Амстердам

The Balkans. The Balkan series of paintings

Берлин

Бреславль (Вроцлав)

Брюссель

Будапешт

Варшава

Вена

Вильно (Вильнюс)

Гамбург

Гельсингфорс (Хельсинки)

Дрезден

Дюссельдорф

India. Indian series of paintings.

The Caucasus

Кенигсберг

Киев

Копенгаген

The Crimea

Лейпциг

Лондон

Москва

Moscow. A series of paintings “Napoleon I in Russia”

Нью-Йорк

Одесса

Париж

Петербург

Traveling around Russia

Прага

Ревель (Таллинн)

Рига

Russian North

Syria and Palestine. Paintings on Evangelical Subjects

Стокгольм

Turkestan. Turkestan series of paintings

The Study at the Workshop of the Artist J. L. Jérôme.

Филадельфия, Сент-Луис, Вашингтон, Бостон

Philippines, USA, Cuba

Франкфурт-на-Майне

Харьков

Христиания (Осло)

Tsarskoye Selo, St. Petersburg, Siverskaia

Cherepovets

Чикаго

Юрьев (Тарту)

Japan. Japanese series of paintings

Киргизские кибитки на реке Чу.

1869 – 1870 гг. холст, масло. 28,4 x 41,4; авторский холст: 27,3 х 39,8
Государственная Третьяковская галерея

Проход Барскаун.

1869 – 1870 гг., холст, масло, 26,8 х 36,1
Астраханская картинная галерея имени П. М. Догадина

Солдат американской армии.

1902 г., холст, масло, 61 х 40,5
Государственный Русский музей

Гималаи вечером.

1875 г., холст, масло, 39,9 x 28,2; (основа); 37,7 х 26,3 (авторский холст)
Государственная Третьяковская галерея

Лезгинец Хаджи Муртус из Дагестана

Из книги: Булгаков Ф. И. В. В. Верещагин и его произведения : иллюстрированное издание. Санкт-Петербург : Типография А. С. Суворина, 1905

Buddhist temple in Tokyo.

1903, 45.3 x 61
Novgorod Museum-Reserve, Veliky Novgorod

Аль-Аль. (Ногаец)

Женщины-духоборы

Крепость Сант-Яго.

1902 г., холст на дереве, масло, 25,5 х 15,5
Таганрогский художественный музей

Тронный зал Великих Моголов Шах-Джахана и Аурангзеба в форте Дели.

1875 г., холст, масло, 39 x 45,5
Государственная Третьяковская галерея

Храм бога войны.

1874–1876 гг., холст, масло, 29 х 22
Саратовский государственный художественный музей имени А. Н. Радищева

Индус.

1872 г., холст, масло, 29 х 19
Художественный музей имени Махарбека Туганова

У крепостной стены. «Пусть войдут».

1871 г., холст, масло, 96 x 162,2
Государственная Третьяковская галерея

Храм в Никко.

1903 г., холст, масло, 45,7х60,8 см
Новгородский музей-заповедник, Великий Новгород

Яки. Караван в Ладаке.

1875 г., холст, масло, 22 х 27,5
Саратовский государственный художественный музей имени А. Н. Радищева

Медресе Шир-Дор на площади Регистан в Самарканде.

1869 – 1870 гг., холст, масло, 27,3 x 36,7
Государственная Третьяковская галерея

Монахиня. Послушница Вологодского монастыря.

1894 г., холст, масло, 29,6 х 22
Ульяновский областной художественный музей

Буддийский лама на празднике в монастыре Пемиончи. Сикким.

1875 г., холст, дублированный на холст, масло, 41,7 x 28,4; (основа); 39,2 х 26,6 (авторский холст)
Государственная Третьяковская галерея

Женщины-молокане

Араб на верблюде.

1869 –1870 гг., 24,7 х 19, дерево, масло
Художественный музей имени Махарбека Туганова

В Туркестане.

1869 – 1870 гг., холст, масло, 27 х 21
Пензенская областная картинная галерея имени К. А. Савицкого

Северная Двина.

1894, холст, масло, 14 х 15,5
Вологодская областная картинная галерея

Два еврея.

1883–1884 гг., дерево, масло, 28,7 x 21,6; в раме: 62 x 55,7; в свету: 26,4 х 20,4
Государственная Третьяковская галерея

Портрет. Японская девушка.

1903 г., бумага, акварель, тушь, перо, кисть, 32,2 х 25,1
Государственный музей А. С. Пушкина, Москва

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