Vereshtchagin
WASILIY, a Russian historical painter; born in Tcherepovets, Russia, Oct. 26, 1842; was educated at the naval school at St.
Petersburg. In 1864 he entered the Art School at Paris, where Gerôme was his master. He joined the Caucasian expe-- joined the Caucasian expe dition under General Kaufmann in 1867 , and in 1869 went to Siberia. In 1874 he went to India with the Prince of Wales, and afterward settled in Paris. He took part in the Russo-Turkish War, and was wounded at Plevna. His pictures are of immense size, extremely realistic, and treat chiefly of the horrors of war. In of the horrors of war. 1904 he went to Manchuria to study scenes and events in actual warfare, and was lost April 13 on the man-of-war Petropavlovsk blown up by a submarine mine, just out of Port Arthur harbor. He thus brought a brilliant career to a sudden close.
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