Василий Григорьевич Перов (1834 82)

Vasily Perov: A collection of 138 paintings (HD) Description: Outstanding painter Vasily Perov was one of the founders of Peredvizhniki (aka the Wanderers or Itinerants) a group of Russian realist painters, who travelled with their exhibitions from town to town. His most famous works include Troika and Hunters at Rest, and portraits of Nikolay Ostrovsky and Fyodor Dostoevsky. Vasily Grigoryevich Perov was born in the town of Tobolsk in 1834. His father was the provincial public prosecutor baron G. К. von Kridiner. However, having been born prior the marriage of his parents, the boy got the surname of his godfather Vasilyev. And yet, for some reasons the artist disliked the surname and subsequently changed it to Perov, after the nickname given to him in childhood for his excellence in calligraphy. The future artist received his first painting lessons at Alexander Stupin Art School in Arzamas. Afterwards he moved to Moscow and entered the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and