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Vasily Vereshchagin

1842 - 1904

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Vasily Vasilyevich Vereshchagin (Russian: Васи́лий Васи́льевич Вереща́гин; 26 October 1842 – 13 April 1904) was a Russian painter, war artist, and traveller. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vasily Vereshchagin has received more than 419,928 page views. His biography is available in 51 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 47 in 2019). Vasily Vereshchagin is the 302nd most popular painter (up from 330th in 2019), the 277th most popular biography from Russia (up from 337th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Russian Painter.

Vasily Vereshchagin was a Russian painter who is most famous for his paintings of the Russo-Turkish War, including his painting of the Battle of Plevna.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 51

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.58

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.31

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Vasily Vereshchagin ranks 302 out of 2,023. Before him are Félicien Rops, Carlo Carrà, Horace Vernet, Pieter Claesz, Vilhelm Hammershøi, and Masolino da Panicale. After him are David Alfaro Siqueiros, Adriaen van Ostade, Daniele da Volterra, Viktor Vasnetsov, Paulus Potter, and Alexej von Jawlensky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1842, Vasily Vereshchagin ranks 18. Before him are Paul Lafargue, Archduke Ludwig Viktor of Austria, Okita Sōji, Hermann Cohen, Arrigo Boito, and Georg Brandes. After him are Giovanni Giolitti, James Dewar, Ambrose Bierce, Sophus Lie, Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann, and Carl von Linde. Among people deceased in 1904, Vasily Vereshchagin ranks 15. Before him are Henry Morton Stanley, Niels Ryberg Finsen, Gabriel Tarde, Abai Qunanbaiuly, Eadweard Muybridge, and Henri Fantin-Latour. After him are George, King of Saxony, Stepan Makarov, Paul Kruger, Lafcadio Hearn, Étienne-Jules Marey, and Mathilde Bonaparte.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Vasily Vereshchagin ranks 277 out of 3,761. Before him are Yermak Timofeyevich (1532), Lyudmila Putina (1958), Princess Irina Alexandrovna of Russia (1895), Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia (1856), Viktor Chernomyrdin (1938), and Ramzan Kadyrov (1976). After him are Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz (1843), Andrei Grechko (1903), Aleksandr Dugin (1962), Varlam Shalamov (1907), Oleg Penkovsky (1919), and Eugen Sandow (1867).

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Among PAINTERS In Russia

Among painters born in Russia, Vasily Vereshchagin ranks 7. Before him are Wassily Kandinsky (1866), Andrei Rublev (1360), Ivan Shishkin (1832), Nicholas Roerich (1874), Ivan Kramskoi (1837), and Natalia Goncharova (1881). After him are Viktor Vasnetsov (1848), Alexej von Jawlensky (1864), Karl Bryullov (1799), Valentin Serov (1865), Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov (1806), and Vasily Perov (1834).

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