Vereshchagin
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Vereshchagin and his wife escaped in a car through the woods during a brief break in the fighting.
From Reuters
They also nabbed people holding blank placards implying opposition to the war; a woman wearing a hat in Ukraine’s yellow and blue colors, and a Siberian carpenter in Tomsk named Stanislav Karmakskikh who was holding a poster of an 1871 Vasily Vereshchagin artwork called “The Apotheosis of War.”
From Washington Post
In St. Petersburg on Wednesday, one activist stood on a busy sidewalk holding up a copy of Russia’s most famous antiwar painting, “The Apotheosis of War” by Vasily Vereshchagin.
From New York Times
In Riga, Latvia, scrolling through Pinterest, Daria Grigorieva struck upon a darker theme in the haunting painting by Vasily Vereshchagin of a pile of skulls on a battlefield, called “The Apotheosis of War.”
From New York Times
Searching the Facebook group’s archives reveals that people have recreated the Vereshchagin painting at least 34 times this month, representing the skulls with materials as diverse as wine corks, potatoes, popcorn, trash bags, eggshells and chicken bones.
From New York Times
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