Who was Vasily Vereshchagin?
Russian painter famous for realistic scenes of war and travel.
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The Caucasus and Asia in drawings · 1842–1904
Vasily Vereshchagin (1842–1904): the caucasus and asia in drawings. SketchMap Atlas shows 7 sketches by Vasily Vereshchagin on the world map, each placed where it was drawn.
Russian painter famous for realistic scenes of war and travel. He journeyed through the Caucasus, Central Asia and India, and drew and painted what he saw on the spot. He died in 1904 at the start of the Russo-Japanese War.
Ananuri Fortress
View of Shusha
The Shia Mosque in Tbilisi
Ruins of a Temple in Chuguchak
Gur-e-Amir Mausoleum in Samarkand
Shah-i-Zinda in Samarkand
Sher-Dor Madrasah on the RegistanEvery sketch is pinned where it was drawn, so you can follow Vasily Vereshchagin from place to place.
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Sketching routes with Vasily Vereshchagin: Samarkand: the Registan and Shah-i-Zinda
Russian painter famous for realistic scenes of war and travel.
Georgia, Azerbaijan, Old Tbilisi, China and Uzbekistan. Every sketch is shown on the map at the place where it was made.
“Ananuri Fortress” (1863), “View of Shusha” (1865), “The Shia Mosque in Tbilisi” (September 1868) and “Ruins of a Temple in Chuguchak” (c. 1870) and more. Each one is pinned to the place where it was drawn.
Yes: Samarkand: the Registan and Shah-i-Zinda. Each route walks through places where artists drew, with the sketches shown on a map in SketchMap Atlas.
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