Vereshchagin

[ ver-uh-shah-gin; Russian vyi-ryi-shchah-gyin ]

noun

1. Va·si·li Va·si·lie·vich [vuh-, syee, -lyee vuh-, syee, -lyi-vyich], 1842–1904, Russian painter.

Example Sentences

Vereshchagin and his wife escaped in a car through the woods during a brief break in the fighting.

From Reuters

Vereshchagin dismisses Russian President Vladimir Putin's rationale for the invasion – clearing neo-Nazis and protecting Russians in Ukraine.

From Reuters

They also nabbed people holding blank placards implying opposition to the war; a woman wearing a hat in Ukraine’s yellow and blue colors, and a Siberian carpenter in Tomsk named Stanislav Karmakskikh who was holding a poster of an 1871 Vasily Vereshchagin artwork called “The Apotheosis of War.”

From Washington Post

In St. Petersburg on Wednesday, one activist stood on a busy sidewalk holding up a copy of Russia’s most famous antiwar painting, “The Apotheosis of War” by Vasily Vereshchagin.

From New York Times

In Riga, Latvia, scrolling through Pinterest, Daria Grigorieva struck upon a darker theme in the haunting painting by Vasily Vereshchagin of a pile of skulls on a battlefield, called “The Apotheosis of War.”

From New York Times