Vereschagin

ve-resh-cha'gen, Vasilii, a Russian painter. He was born October 25, 1842, in the province of Novgorod, and was killed by a bursting shell on board a Russian battleship off Port Arthur, April 13, 1904. He was educated in St. Petersburg and in the School of Fine Arts at Paris. He served in several military campaigns. He is celebrated for numerous large paintings depicting the horrors of warfare. Some of these are After Defeat, Assault on Plevna, Wounded Returning, and The Retreat from Moscow. One of his latest paintings is an imaginative picture of the battle of San Juan Hill, in which Roosevelt figures as the hero. Vereschagin is credited with having aroused the public conscience to the suffering and dread realities of warfare.