Apollinary Mikhaylovich Vasnetsov — a Russian painter, graphic artist and stage designer. Author of canvases in the spirit of neo-romanticism, recreating old Russian life and the boundless expanses of Russia. Apollinary Vasnetsov, the younger brother of the famous painter Viktor Vasnetsov, was born in the Vyatka Governorate in 1856. Orphaned in his youth, he studied at the Vyatka Theological School, where he took lessons from the Polish artist-exile Michał Andriolli. In 1872 he moved to Saint Petersburg, where his brother and his friends, among them Ilya Repin, Vasily Polenov and Ivan Kramskoi, taught him the basics of painting.
Vasnetsov refused to enroll in the Academy of Arts and in 1875 went to the village of Bystritsa to work as a rural teacher. However, he soon became disillusioned with this idea and returned to Moscow in 1878. From 1883 he began to exhibit his paintings at the traveling art exhibitions. He traveled across Russia, Ukraine and Crimea, and at the end of the 19th century he undertook a trip to Europe. Vasnetsov became an academician of the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts in 1900 and was one of the founders of the Union of Russian Artists.
From 1901 to 1918 Vasnetsov taught at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. After 1918 he headed the Commission for the Study of Old Moscow and conducted archaeological research. In 1931 Apollinary Vasnetsov bravely opposed the demolition of the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour by writing a letter to a newspaper. Apollinary Vasnetsov died in 1933 and was buried in Moscow. His works are kept in the Tretyakov Gallery, the Russian Museum and other major museums. A memorial apartment-museum of the artist has been opened in Moscow.
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