Polenov Vasily Dmitrievich (1844-1927) (244 works)

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Russian artist and theater figure. Born in St. Petersburg on May 20 (June 1), 1844 in the family of archaeologist D.V. Polenov. He studied at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts (1863–1871) and at the same time at the Faculty of Law of St. Petersburg University. He took private lessons from P.P. Chistyakov and I.N. Kramskoy. Visited Italy, France and Germany in 1872–1876 as a “pensioner” of the Academy of Arts; He traveled a lot later, visiting, in particular, the Middle East and Greece (1881–1882, 1899 and 1909). He participated as a volunteer in the Serbo-Montenegrin-Turkish War of 1877–1878, and created many battle and ethnographic sketches and sketches. He was a member of the Association of Itinerants.