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Petr Petrovich Vereshchagin
        born January 14, 1834 in Perm, in the family of the painter-craftsman Peter Prokofyevich Vereshchagin.
Peter Vereshchagin was, like his brother Basil, the original art education in the family and also continued his at the Academy of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg (1858-1865). However, his artistic interests of the brothers are noticeably different. Petr Petrovich Vereshchagin is primarily known for its scenery.

After graduation worked as a teacher and created a lot of landscapes. His views of cities and their specific locations ( "View of Reval from Kadriorg, 1864; Type Dinaburg," 1867; "The market in Nizhny Novgorod, 1867," View of the Kremlin ", 1868) brought him formal recognition, as expressed in the assignment of ranks artist second, and then the first degree, academic landscape painting (1873), and known among art lovers.