03.09.1942 – 29.10.1976

Konstantin Alekseevich Vasiliev was born in Maykop on September 3, 1942. His father, Aleksei Alekseevich, a month before the birth of his first child left for the partisan detachment: Germans were approaching the city. On August 8, 1942, the city was occupied, the mother of the artist, Claudia Parmenovna, could not be evacuated. Many tests fell to the share of the newly born baby and his young mother, but they survived all the hardships and hardships. On February 3, 1943 Maikop was released.

The Vasiliev family continued their postwar life in Kazan, and in 1949 Alexey Alekseyevich, a passionate hunter and fisherman, moved household members to his permanent residence in the village of Vasilyevo. The nature of this region is amazing – the point of confluence of the rivers of the Volga and Sviyaga. Many landscapes will be written by Konstantin Vasilyev in these beautiful places.

In 1954, the future artist enters the Moscow Secondary Art School at the Institute. Surikov, however Kostya studied here only two years. Because of his father’s sudden death, he had to return to his homeland, and then continue his studies at the Kazan Art College.

Konstantin Vasiliev left a great creative legacy – more than 400 works of painting and graphics. These are portraits and landscapes, but mostly the great artist was glorified by paintings of mythological or epic themes.

Konstantin Alekseevich also became famous as a battalist artist. His brush includes such works as the portrait of Marshal Zhukov, paintings “Farewell of the Slav”, “Parade 41-th”, “Longing for the Motherland”.

On October 29, 1976, at the age of 34, Konstantin Vasilyev died tragically as a result of an accident at a railway crossing. The artist was buried in his native village of Vasilyevo.

Image: K.A. Vasiliev “Sviyazhsk”.