26.01.1834 – 28.01. 1886

On January 26, Petr Petrovich Vereshchagin was born in Perm. He is a Russian artist, an academician of landscape painting, who went down in history as the first landscape painter of the Middle Urals. Together with younger brothers (one of whom is a painter and portraitist Vasily Vereshchagin) studied pictorial crafts. The first teacher was their father – Peter Prokofievich Vereshchagin.

Peter and Vasily continued their education in the Imperial Academy of Arts. However, for their artistic interests, the brothers differed noticeably. Peter chose his specialty landscape painting. One of his teachers was S.M. Vorobiev – a famous landscape painter, who lived in Italy for many years. His lessons had a strong influence on the young man.

Peter Vereshchagin graduated from the Academy of Arts in 1865 with the title of a class artist of the third degree for his painting “View in Nizhny Novgorod”.

After graduating from the Academy he worked as a teacher and created many landscapes. His kinds of cities or their characteristic places brought him and official recognition, expressed in awarding the titles of the artist second and then first degree, the academician of landscape painting in 1873 and famous among art lovers.

After leaving the pedagogical work, the artist traveled a lot and wrote a lot: views of the Caucasus, the Crimea, the Urals, and the North-West of Russia.

During the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878 he was in the army and created a number of paintings, without changing, however, his inclinations, mainly landscapes associated with the image of the Danube.

Petr Vereshchagin is one of those artists who tried, above all, to create an ideal and, therefore, a beautiful image of nature and the city, while observing the accuracy of the depicted.