Vasily Ivanovich Surikov

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The Boyarynya Morozova, oil painting by Vasily Surikov, 1887; in the Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.

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Vasily Ivanovich Surikov

Russian painter

Written by Andrei D. Sarabianov

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Born:: Jan. 12 [Jan. 24, New Style], 1848, Krasnoyarsk, central Siberia, Russia

Died:: March 3 [March 19], 1916, Moscow, Russia (aged 68)

Notable Works:: “Menshikov at Beryozovo”; “The Boyarin Morozova”; “The Morning of the Execution of the Streltsy”

Movement / Style:: Peredvizhniki

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Vasily Ivanovich Surikov (born Jan. 12 [Jan. 24, New Style], 1848, Krasnoyarsk, central Siberia, Russia—died March 3 [March 19], 1916, Moscow, Russia) was a Russian historical painter, one of the few members of the Peredvizhniki (“Wanderers”) whose work has withstood the test of time. Surikov, who was of Cossack descent, was born in Siberia in a community that had retained much of its traditional way of life (dating from the pre-Petrine times of Yermak’s conquest of Siberia in the 16th century), including public executions in town squares. So isolated was his community from the rest of Russia that there was ...(100 of 651 words)

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