Apollinary Vasnetsov

Apollinary Vasnetsov
Аполлинарий Васнецов
Portrait of Apollinary by his brother, Viktor (1878)
Born	6 August [O.S. 25 July] 1856 Ryabovo, Vyatka Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	23 January 1933(1933-01-23) (aged 76) Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Education	Member Academy of Arts (1900)
Alma mater	Moscow School of Painting
Known for	Painting
Movement	Peredvizhniki
Relatives	Viktor (brother)

Apollinary Mikhaylovich Vasnetsov (Russian: Аполлина́рий Миха́йлович Васнецо́в; 6 August [O.S. 25 July] 1856 – 23 January 1933) was a Russian painter and graphic artist.^[1] He specialised in scenes from the medieval history of Moscow.

Vasnetsov did not receive a formal artistic education. He had studied under his older brother,

Early life

Vasnetsov had three elder and two younger brothers. His only sister died at the age of four months. Vasnetsov's father played an important role in the upbringing and education of his sons, teaching them to love nature and to become familiar with the life of birds and animals. Vasnetsov's father died in 1870, which came as a terrible blow for him.

The Caucasus and the Urals

In 1890, Vasnetsov made a journey across the North of the Russian Empire and was able to record beautiful views of Siberia and the Urals, including the paintings:

• Forest on the Slopes of Mount Blagodat, Mid-Urals (1890)
• Boreal forest
  in the Urals (1890)
• Mountain lake in the Urals (1892)
• The Steppes of Orenburg (1895)
• "Koma" (1895)

In 1895, Vasnetsov visited

• View of Elbrus from Bermomut (1895)
• Red
  Cliffs in Kislovodsk
  (1896)
• Elbrus before Sunrise (1897)
• Darial (1897)

At the beginning of 1920, the Committee of Archaeology (the predecessor of the Community for the Saving of Art Monuments) invited Vasnetsov and several other painters (including Vikentii Trofimov) to draw the old places of Voronezh.

A minor planet,

• 
  Boreal forest in the Ural mountains (1890)
• 
  Mountain Lake (1892)
• 
  Kremlin

  (1892)
• 
  Set for the opera

  Tchaikovsky

  (1911)
• 
  In the Moscow Kremlin
• 
  Novgorod

  marketplace
• 
  Red Square in the second half of the 17th century
• 
  Kama River
• 
  Painting of "Old Moscow" by Vasnetsov, depicted on a 1947 stamp

See also

• List of Russian artists

References

1. ^ "Apollinary Mikhaylovich Vasnetsov". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 18 August 2018.
2. ISBN 3-540-00238-3
   .

Sources

• Apollinary Vasnetsov by Vasnetsova, Yekaterina & Schmidt, Igor (eds.), Izobrazitelnoye Iskusstvo, Moscow, 1980, (Russian/English), Book ID V 1121 31.
• Great painters by Gordeeva M., "Direct media", Kyiv, 2011, (Russian)

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