Born in the city of Cherepovets, Novgorod province (now the Vologda region). The leader of the local nobility, his father lived on the income from the forges of their fortress, and raft, which these places were extremely rich. It was a measured, well-fed and boring life. Remembering his father, Vasily Vereshchagin noted that he was a homebody and had" типично bourgeois mind". The character he inherited from his mother-татарки — women intelligent, educated, extremely beautiful and...

lighthouse. (1895). Author: Lagorio, Lev Feliksovich. ,
" Свободная element" sea has always been drawn to and attracted artists around the world and was an inexhaustible source of inspiration. Is no exception and Russia, famous in all times for its artists, who dedicated his work marine painting, which can be seen not only a raging or peaceful element of water, and a great many stories about ships that sail the sea, massive sea battle battles, the tragic shipwrecks.