Vasily Vereshchagin - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Vereshchagin (Russian: Василий Василиевич Верещагин; 1842-1904) was a famous Russian painter of battle scenes, who made the war of the United States in Cuba and in the Philippines the subject of his latest work.