State Historical Museum opens “The Year 1812 in the Paintings by Vasily Vereshchagin”

Vasily Vasilyevich Vereshchagin (1842-1904) - At the fortress wall. "Let them enter!" (1871). Painting commemorating the capture of Khiva (in present-day Uzbekistan) by Russian Imperial troops. Courtesy State Historical Museum, Moscow.

MOSCOW.- The State Historical Museum opened the exhibition "The Year 1812 in the paintings by Vasily Vereshchagin", a gift given to the museum in 1812 by Emperor Nicholas II. Prior to the celebraton of the 200th anniversary of the Patriotic War of 1812 the State Historical Museum has organized this exhibition of paintings made by the famous Russian painter of battle scenes, Vasily Vereshchagin. Twenty grandiose picturesque paintings chronicle the events from the Battle of Borodino to the flight of Napoleon from Russia.

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