Is named after Viktor Vasnetsov and Apollinary Vasnetsov
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Viktor Vasnetsov
Viktor Mikhaylovich Vasnetsov was a Russian painter and draughtsman who specialised in mythological and historical subjects. He is considered a co-founder of Russian folklorist and romantic nationalistic painting, and a key figure in the Russian Revivalist movement.
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culture · Russian painter (1848–1926) · painter · architect · postage stamp designer · draftsperson · illustrator · scenographer · designer · watercolorist · mosaicist · graphic artist · also Viktor Vasnetsov, V. M. Vasnet︠s︡ov, Victor Vasnetsov, Victor Mikjailovitch Vasnetsov, Viktor Mihajlovič Vasnecov, Viktor Mikhailovich Vasnetsov
Born 3 May 1848 · Died 23 July 1926 · Q204138
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1926· 1 entry
Died 1926-07-23.
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1915· 1 entry
Vasnetsov participated in the designing of a military uniform for the Victory parade of the Russian army in Berlin and Constantinopole
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1914· 1 entry
Designed a revenue stamp intended for voluntary collection for victims of World War I
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1912· 1 entry
Was given a noble title by Czar Nicholas II
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1904· 1 entry
Vasnetsov designed the best known of his "fairy-tale" buildings – the façade of the Tretyakov Gallery
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1897· 1 entry
Collaborated with his brother Apollinary on the theatrical design of another Rimsky-Korsakov premiere, Sadko
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1876· 1 entry
Repin invited Vasnetsov to join the Peredvizhniki colony in Paris
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1875· 1 entry
Studied at Imperial Academy of Arts (1868–1875).
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1863· 1 entry
A group of fourteen students left the Academy, finding its rules too constraining
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1858· 1 entry
“had lived with peasant children and liked them not as a narodnik but as a friend”
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1848· 2 entries
Born 1848-05-03.
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The second of the seven children (his only sister died 4 months after her birth)
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