page_title: Vasily Vereshchagin
section_title: Last years
hierarchical_section_title: Vasily Vereshchagin / Last years
caption_attribution_description: 1902 portrait photograph of Vasily Vasilyevich Vereshchagin. Caption: "Vasili Vereshchagin - The famous Russian painter of battle scenes, who has been making the war of the United States in Cuba and in the Philippines the subject of his latest work. This portrait shows him in his Cuban working costume."
context_page_description: Vasily Vasilyevich Vereshchagin, was one of the most famous Russian war artists and one of the first Russian artists to be widely recognised abroad. The graphic nature of his realist scenes led to many of them never being printed or exhibited.
context_section_description: Vereshchagin was in the Far East during the First Sino-Japanese War of 1894–1895, and was with the Russian troops in Manchuria during the Boxer Rebellion of 1900. In 1901, he visited the Philippines, in 1902 the United States and Cuba, and in 1903, Japan.
  During the Russo-Japanese War, he was invited by Admiral Stepan Makarov to join him aboard Makarov's, Petropavlovsk.  On April 13, 1904, Petropavlovsk struck two mines while returning to Port Arthur and sank, taking with it most of the crew, including both Admiral Makarov and Vereshchagin.  Vereshchagin's last work, a picture of a council of war presided over by Admiral Makarov, was recovered almost undamaged.
caption: Vasily Vereshchagin in 1902
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