History 07/03/20 Vasily Vereshchagin: as killed fighting Russian artist
Vasily Vereshchagin went down in history as the largest and original Russian painter of battle scenes. His work is permeated at the same time and patriotism, and humanism. The public idolized him, and the Emperor hated and banned. His paintings are immortalized a few warrior who led Russia. Almost all of them he personally participated. Talk about ways to combat the great artist.
Turkestan
Vasily Vereshchagin was a man of very peculiar. He never wrote, but could earn millions. Vereshchagin denied and even scorned the academic art and the tradition of painting, opposed itself to all existing schools and trends, but today is considered a classic.
Increased education on revolutionary traditions 1860, sympathized with the revolutionaries and the people, was an atheist and a bit of a nihilist, but half of life spent on the wars through the centuries will be called the imperialist. Finally, he was europocentrism and supporter of the educational mission of the civilized white man, but tried to keep the relics of the East and with interest and compassion studied the way of life conquer the Russian people.
However, the motivation of this man, who enjoyed great respect among his contemporaries, much deeper than ideological labels. Baptism of fire he got during the war in Turkestan. The Governor-General of Turkestan K. P. Kaufman invited him to become an artist when it in 1867. Vereshchagin gladly accepts and goes to Samarkand, received the rank of ensign. In 1868 he, along with a small detachment of the Russian army is experiencing a severe siege, in which, as a simple soldier, fighting against Samarkand, which tried to regain the newly captured Russian city. Several paintings he devoted to this siege, for example, “Let them come,” which depicts a Russian ambush, waiting for the moment thatwould attack the man.
In the Samarkand region, he spent 3 years and then left to travel to the East in Semirechye, that is, in modern Kazakhstan. There, he met with the life not only of the Kazakhs, which were called Kara-Kyrgyz, and other peoples, the Buryats, Kyrgyz, Evenki, Chinese.
His impressions received during this trip formed the basis of the most important of his paintings Turkestan series, which he painted several years later, in the early 1870s in Munich. This battle scene of battle of Russian soldiers with the Central Asians (“Attack by surprise”, “Triumph”, “Mortally wounded”), and paintings depicting local people (“Dervishes”, “the Poor in Samarkande, “children of the tribe soloniv”), and the scenery of the ancient cities of Turkestan and its surrounding area (the”Gate of Tamerlane”, “the madrasah Shir-Dor”).
the paintings in this series it clearly shows their attitude to war: on the one hand, disgust him the rigidity he meets on both sides of the conflict. On the other hand, he glorifies the image of the simple Russian soldier.
Russo-Turkish war
In the mid-1870s, Vereshchagin traveled to India and Tibet, and then returned to Paris. There he found the Russian-Turkish war. The artist wanted to participate in it. The command classifies it to the part of the aides-de-camp of the commander of the Danube army with the right of free movement for troops, but no public content. Vereshchagin travels to the advanced position of the Russian troops and gathering material for his paintings (“Spy”, “Winners” and “Losers,” a series of paintings about SHIPKA, and many others). A lot of the time he spent in possession of the legendary General Skobelev.
Like the war correspondents of world war II, he always tries to be in the thick of the battle to experience the war in full. At times, he himself has to fight. In June 1877, during one of the fights he gets injured. The Turkish bullet pierces his thigh through and through. This was on the destroyer “Joke”, which was obstrelyan Turks. That’s how it was described by the artist himself in his diaries:
“I was wounded in the thigh, in the soft part. Rising after the impact, I was still standing, but feeling a certain uneasiness in the right foot began to feel sore point: see, the pants torn in two places, finger is free to enter the meat. “Uh, yeah did I hurt? So, the whole hand in the blood. So that’s what the wound. How easy it is! First I thought it was much harder.” A bullet or buckshot had struck in the bottom of the boat, then ricocheted through the thigh right through, smashing the muscle and the hair went from bone; then touch the bone, faithful to the death. None of the sailors wounded.”
Poorly treated wound gives complication, and Vereshchagin, who had a weak immune system that’s sensitive to all sorts of fevers, which he was often sick, almost begins gangrene. But he recovers, and the desire to climb the bullets, to see a real war without embellishment and unnecessary Pavarotti, and then to portray her like this and to show the public, it continues unabated.
the Russo-Japanese war
After the Russo-Turkish war, Vereshchagin traveled. He toured the middle East, America, where he became a close friend of President Roosevelt, Russian North East Asia. In 1903 he finds himself in Japan, where he painted a series of paintings (“Sintoistskoj temple in Nikko”, “Temple in Tokyo”, “Walk in a boat” and others), where his style is coming to impressionism. Culture and nature of Japan really like him. In his letters to his wife, he admires the local scenery and architecture.
But laudatory message about the beauty of Japan in his correspondence with his wife mixed with disturbing observations about the impending war. “According to the newspaper based in Japan frequent meeting of enemies of Russia, demanding the war with us, considering the present moment to open hostilities for the most convenient and appropriate,” wrote Vereshchagin wife in the spring of 1903. When the war begins, he arrives in Port Arthur. There are only 2 months after the outbreak of war, April 13, 1904, he finds his death. Bbronenosec “Petropavlovsk”, which was the artist, explodes into a Japanese mine.
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