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Vasily Polenov

1844 - 1927

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Vasily Dmitrievich Polenov (Russian: Василий Дмитриевич Поленов; 1 June 1844 – 18 July 1927) was a Russian landscape painter associated with the Peredvizhniki movement of realist artists. His contemporaries would call him the “Knight of Beauty” as he embodied both European and Russian traditions of painting. His vision of life was summarized as following: “Art should promote happiness and joy”. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vasily Polenov has received more than 133,894 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Vasily Polenov is the 837th most popular painter (down from 790th in 2019), the 788th most popular biography from Russia (down from 758th in 2019) and the 30th most popular Russian Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Vasily Polenov ranks 837 out of 2,023. Before him are Jean François de Troy, Louis Anquetin, Peter Snayers, Franz Anton Maulbertsch, Jean Fautrier, and Peter Nicolai Arbo. After him are Maximilien Luce, Vincenzo Catena, Wolf Huber, Marguerite Gérard, Helen Allingham, and Roman Opałka.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1844, Vasily Polenov ranks 45. Before him are Édouard Branly, Prince Ferdinand, Duke of Alençon, Princess Maria Immacolata of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Princess Françoise of Orléans, Minna Canth, and Carl Hagenbeck. After him are Eduard Strasburger, Édouard Drumont, Louis Riel, Lujo Brentano, George W. De Long, and Jenny Longuet. Among people deceased in 1927, Vasily Polenov ranks 55. Before him are Fyodor Sologub, Jonas Basanavičius, Wilhelm Stenhammar, Fritz Hofmann, Lizzie Borden, and Ottavio Bottecchia. After him are Hermann Abert, Mikhail Artsybashev, Ion I. C. Brătianu, Robert Fuchs, Inayat Khan, and Princess Clotilde of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Vasily Polenov ranks 788 out of 3,761. Before him are Anatoli Papanov (1922), Musa Cälil (1906), Eduard Uspensky (1937), Nikolai Voznesensky (1903), Eduard Streltsov (1937), and Ivan Goremykin (1839). After him are Dmitri Hvorostovsky (1962), Prince Paul of Württemberg (1785), Ludwika Karolina Radziwiłł (1667), Kirill Kondrashin (1914), Anatoly Stessel (1848), and Franz Schlegelberger (1876).

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Among PAINTERS In Russia

Among painters born in Russia, Vasily Polenov ranks 30. Before him are Jean Béraud (1849), Nikolai Ge (1831), Mikhail Nesterov (1862), Viktor Hartmann (1834), Alexei Savrasov (1830), and Konstantin Korovin (1861). After him are Vasily Tropinin (1776), Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin (1878), Eero Järnefelt (1863), Abram Arkhipov (1862), Angelina Beloff (1879), and Orest Kiprensky (1782).

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