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http://www.ashi.com/international/w-watch/tyk200407090290.html Khram Khrista Spasit el ya Vasilli Vasil evich Vereshchagin pp. 254262
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Who is / was Vasily Vereschagin? KUNIMATSU Natsuki Vasily Vereschagin was a Russian artist known for such outstanding paintings as Shipka-Sheinovo, Apotheosis of War, and Doors of Tamerlane. Among them, the most famous tableau is his Apotheosis of War which shows a deserted post-war battlefield where only pyramids of skulls remain; the sky is a perfect blue where flocks of hungry crows gather. This painting became a peaceful symbol against militarism. But Vereschagin was also a soldier. Though he graduated from Navy officer training school, he refused a commission because he wanted to study fine arts. He participated in the Russo-Turkish Wars both as a soldier and as a painter, was wounded, and was awarded a medal. Heroic soldier-militarist vs. anti-militarist painter is this paradox is difficult to solve or not difficult? In any case, Vereschagin died in the naval battles of the Russo-Japanese War. Vereschagin called himself a traveler, and in fact he travelled all over the Orient : Turkestan, India, the Balkans, Palestine, China and Japan. His great journeys were for painting, and at the same time for research on Orientology and cultural anthropology. Orient-wide traveler vs. artist of realism: there is no contradiction there. However, Vereschagin only sketched or did etudes during his travels, completing his drawings at one of his ateliers in Munich and Moscow. Vasily Vereschagin has / had yet another face: he was also a writer. Autobiography, reportage, records of travels, novels- Vereschagin s work covered almost every genre of literature. His final work was the text and drawings for a series called The Patriotic War of 1812 against Napoleon. He worked not only at writing but also at drawing, held exhibitions for them, and
published an illustrated book. Here the painter Vereschagin was probably harmonious with the writer. Yet, Vereschagin s life remains an enigma. Did he visit Japan twice or only once? If twice, why are there no documents in Russia about his first visit? We might also ask, why was Vereschagin never awarded the Nobel Prize?