Vasily Surikov

For Art College in Moscow, see Surikov Moscow Art Institute.
Vasily Surikov

Self-portrait

Self-portrait
Born (1848-01-24)24 January 1848
Krasnoyarsk, Yeniseysk Governorate, Russian Empire
Died 19 March 1916(1916-03-19) (aged 68)
Moscow, Russia
Nationality Russian
Education Imperial Academy of Arts
Known for Painting
Notable work Morning of Streltsy's execution (1881)
Boyarynya Morozova (1887)
Movement Realism, History painting
Awards Four Silver Medals
Patron(s) Pavel Tretyakov

Vasily Ivanovich Surikov (Васи́лий Ива́нович Су́риков) (January 24, 1848 (Julian calendar: January 12) – March 19, 1916 (Julian calendar: March 6)) was the foremost Russian painter of large-scale historical subjects. His major pieces are among the best-known paintings in Russia.

Surikov was born in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, where a monument to him was recently opened by his great-grandsons, Nikita Mikhalkov and Andrei Konchalovsky. In 1869-1871 he studied under Pavel Chistyakov at the Imperial Academy of Arts.

In 1877, Surikov settled in Moscow, where he contributed some imposing frescoes to the Cathedral of Christ the Savior. In 1878 he married Elizabeth Charais, a granddaughter of the Decembrist Svistunov. In 1881 he joined the Peredvizhniki movement. From 1893 he was a full member of the St.Petersburg Academy of Arts. Surikov was interred at the Vagankovskoye Cemetery in Moscow.

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