Vasnetsov Viktor Mikhailovich

Russian painter. He studied in St. Petersburg at the Drawing School of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts (1867-68). Academy of Arts (1868-75), of which he became a full member in 1893. Since 1878, member of the Association of Peredvizhniki. Lived in St. Petersburg and Moscow. The works are in the Tretyakov Gallery, the Russian Museum. He created the paintings “After the Massacre of Igor Svyatoslavich with the Polovtsians” (1880), “Alyonushka” (1881), “Ivan the Tsarevich on the Gray Wolf” (1889), “Bogatyrs” (1881-98), “Tsar Ivan Vasilyevich the Terrible” (1897, all in the Tretyakov Gallery). Works for the theater: scenery and costumes for the fairy tale play "The Snow Maiden". In 1883-85 he completed the monumental panel "Stone Age" for the Historical Museum in Moscow, in 1885-96 - most of the paintings of the Vladimir Cathedral in Kyiv. Based on his drawings, the church and the fabulous “Hut on Chicken Legs” were built in Abramtsevo (near Moscow; 1883), and the facade of the Tretyakov Gallery was built (1902). In Soviet times, he continued to work on folk fairy-tale themes ("The Battle of Dobrynya Nikitich with the seven-headed Serpent Gorynych", 1918; "Kashchei the Immortal", 1917-26; both paintings are in the V. M. Vasnetsov House-Museum in Moscow).