Konstantin Vasilyev

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Konstantin Alexeyevich Vasilyev
Константин Алексеевич Васильев
USSR
EducationKazan Art School
StylePortrait
AwardsMusa Jalil Republican Prize

Konstantin Alexeyevich Vasilyev (

Great Patriotic War
of the Soviet people. These include "Marshal Zhukov", "Invasion", "The Parade of 1941" and "Nostalgia."

In neopaganism

Vasilyev's works are popular among Russian neopaganism. Among the illustrations for the book Dezionization by Valery Yemelyanov, one of the founders of Russian neopaganism, there were reproductions of Vasilyev's paintings on the theme of the struggle of Russian heroes with evil forces, in particular, a painting signed in this publication as Ilya Muromets defeats the Christian plague.[1][2] Reproductions of Vasilyev's paintings were placed in the Temple of the Veda Perun of the neopagan movement of Ynglism and are presented in the Slavic-Aryan Vedas, expounding the teachings of Ynglism.[2]

Death and legacy

Konstantin Vasilyev died on October 29, 1976, in a railway accident near Kazan. His family and friends never believed in the official version of his death and suspected that the painter was murdered.[3] Vasilyev was buried in the village of Vasilyevo, where he lived since 1949. Recognition came posthumously. A documentary "Vasilyev from Vasilyevo"[4] was released in 1978. The Konstantin Vasilyev Museum opened in Moscow in 1998. Another film about the painter under the title "A man with an eagle-owl. Konstantin Vasilyev" was made in 2002.[5] In 2012 Konstantin Vasilyev Museum in Moscow was renamed the Konstantin Vasilyev Centre of the Slavic Culture. Next year, in 2013, the Konstantin Vasilyev Art Gallery was opened in Kazan.

Vasilyev's oeuvres steadily gained in popularity through the late Soviet and early post-Soviet periods, until they have reached a virtually iconic status among Russian nationalists,

neo-pagans
, and fantasy geeks.

The

Lyudmila Zhuravlyova in 1982 is named after him.[6]

References

  1. ^ Schnirelmann 2012.
  2. ^ a b Schnirelmann 2015.
  3. ^ "Тайна гибели человека с филином". zvezdapovolzhya.ru. Retrieved June 28, 2023.
  4. ^ "Васильев из Васильева. Часть 1". Retrieved June 28, 2023 – via www.youtube.com.
  5. ^ "- YouTube". www.youtube.com. Retrieved June 28, 2023.
  6. ISBN 3-540-00238-3
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