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Viktor Vasnetsov

Russian painter of folklore, myth and history, a founding figure of the Russian Revivalist style.

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Viktor Vasnetsov

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A minor planet, 3586 Vasnetsov, was named after him and his brother Apollinary in 1978.[1] Specializing in mythological and historical themes, Viktor Vasnetsov worked as both a painter and a draughtsman.[2]

Life and work

Viktor Vasnetsov was born in 1848 in the remote village of Lopyal in Vyatka Governorate, the second of seven children.[3] He recalled living with peasant children and liking them as a friend, not as a narodnik.[4] After seminary, he moved to Saint Petersburg to study art, auctioning paintings to fund the trip.[5] He failed to enter the Imperial Academy of Arts in 1867 but succeeded one year later.[6]

Apocalypse vasnetsov
Apocalypse vasnetsov. Image: Viktor Vasnetsov · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

In 1915 he helped design a military uniform for a victory parade, credited with creating the budenovka hat.[5] Viktor's earliest paintings, created in Lopyal, were primarily landscapes and depictions of village life.[7]

What the cited sources add

A 2019 book titled "Vasnet︠s︡ovshchina" provides details on Vasnetsov's family and childhood.[8][7] A 2003 Springer publication titled "Dictionary of minor planet names" documents the naming of minor planet 3586 Vasnetsov.[9][1]

References

  1. Wikipedia, "Viktor Vasnetsov" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Schmadel, "Dictionary of Minor Planet Names", Springer Verlag, 2003, p. 301 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  2. Wikipedia, "Viktor Vasnetsov" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Васнецов, Виктор Михайлович", krugosvet.ru (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  3. Wikipedia, "Viktor Vasnetsov" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Богатырь русской живописи", centre.smr.ru; Vasnetsova, "Васнецовщина", 2019, p. 46–47, 63; Viktor Mikhaylovich Vasnetsov. Encyclopaedia Britannica (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  4. Wikipedia, "Viktor Vasnetsov" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Богатырь русской живописи", centre.smr.ru (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  5. Wikipedia, "Viktor Vasnetsov" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Viktor Mikhaylovich Vasnetsov. Encyclopaedia Britannica (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  6. Wikipedia, "Viktor Vasnetsov" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Ярославцева, "Виктор Михайлович Васнецов: Письма. Дневники. Воспоминания. Суждения современников", Iskusstvo, 1987, p. 475 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  7. Wikipedia, "Viktor Vasnetsov" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Vasnetsova, "Васнецовщина", 2019, p. 64, 78, 88–89, 98 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  8. Open Library record, ISBN 9785604272206 ("Vasnet︠s︡ovshchina"). CC0 (metadata); book content not read. openlibrary.org
  9. Open Library record, ISBN 3540002383 ("Dictionary of minor planet names"). CC0 (metadata); book content not read. openlibrary.org

Each numbered sentence above was checked against the source it cites before publication. Sentences citing Wikipedia adapt text from the English Wikipedia article Viktor Vasnetsov (contributors), used under CC BY-SA 4.0; this entry is available under the same licence. Other sources were used for facts only; no text or images are copied from them.

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