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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 123,952 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Vasily Polenov is the 791st most popular painter (down from 783rd in 2019), the 760th most popular biography from Russia (down from 690th in 2019) and the 30th most popular Russian Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Vasily Polenov ranks 791 out of 1,421. Before him are Marie-Guillemine Benoist, Winslow Homer, Richard Parkes Bonington, Peter Snayers, Cindy Sherman, and Lee Krasner. After him are Nicolas Lancret, Toriyama Sekien, Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, Marie Krøyer, Walter Sickert, and Jost Amman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1844, Vasily Polenov ranks 43. Before him are Louis Riel, Minna Canth, Thomas Eakins, Joshua Slocum, Prince Philipp of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and Victorine Meurent. After him are George W. De Long, Édouard Branly, Princess Françoise of Orléans, Édouard Drumont, Carl Hagenbeck, and Gyula Benczúr. Among people deceased in 1927, Vasily Polenov ranks 54. Before him are Lizzie Borden, Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, Dashi-Dorzho Itigilov, Victorine Meurent, Ion I. C. Brătianu, and Stanisław Przybyszewski. After him are Ottavio Bottecchia, Robert Fuchs, Gustave Whitehead, Khalid bin Barghash of Zanzibar, Hugo Schuchardt, and Jonas Basanavičius.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Vasily Polenov ranks 760 out of 3,262. Before him are Eugene Botkin (1865), Mikhail Kasyanov (1957), Yegor Ligachyov (1920), Aleksey Petrovich Yermolov (1777), Nikolay Danilevsky (1822), and Marfa Sobakina (1552). After him are Viacheslav I of Kiev (1083), Fyodor Okhlopkov (1908), Alexander Andreyevich Baranov (1746), Andrey Arshavin (1981), Grand Duke Andrei Vladimirovich of Russia (1879), and Ludmilla Tourischeva (1952).

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Among PAINTERS In Russia

Among painters born in Russia, Vasily Polenov ranks 30. Before him are Konstantin Makovsky (1839), Konstantin Korovin (1861), Viktor Hartmann (1834), Mikhail Nesterov (1862), Nikolai Ge (1831), and Alexei Savrasov (1830). After him are Vasily Tropinin (1776), Abram Arkhipov (1862), Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin (1878), Eero Järnefelt (1863), Aleksandr Deyneka (1899), and Orest Kiprensky (1782).

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