Vasily Vereshchagin in Crimea

In the multi -colored vital palette of an outstanding artist of the second half of the 19th century, Vasily Vasilyevich Vereshchagin, the Crimean period (1865, 1896 and 1899) was least studied. The Book "Vereshchagin in Crimea" is the first attempt to tell how he worked, rested and with whom our famous compatriot met on Crimean land, most of which took place in wars and wanderings. Under the cover of the publication, the preserved, but due to various circumstances scattered in many museums of Russia and the countries of the former USSR reproductions of the “Crimean "works of the painter, the little -known canvases from the expositions of the Sevastopol Art Museum named after M.P. Kroshitsky, Alupkinsky Palace and Park Museum-Reserve, as well as pencil and watercolor "Crimean" drawings from catalogs of the State Tretyakov Gallery