Vereshchagin (Russian: Верещагин) is a Russian masculine surname, its feminine counterpart is Vereshchagina.[1] It was also a name of an old Russian Boyar family.
Notable surname bearers
edit- Pavel Vereshchagin, a character from the 1970 Soviet movie White Sun of the Desert
- Pyotr Vereshchagin (1834/36–1886), Russian landscape and cityscape painter
- Vasily Petrovich Vereshchagin (1835–1909), Russian portraitist, history painter and illustrator, brother of Pyotr
- Nikolay Vereshchagin (1839–1907), organizer of Russian cheese and butter industry
- Vasily Vereshchagin (1842–1904), Russian war painter, brother of Nikolay
- Nikolai Kuzmich Vereshchagin (1908–2008), Russian zoologist who specialized in the study of mammoths and other Arctic paleofauna, grandson of the war painter Vasily Vereshchagin
- Igor Vereshchagin (b. 1952), Russian music and street photographer.
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Soviet Anthropology and Archaeology: ISAP Translations from Original Soviet Sources. International Arts and Sciences Press. 1965. p. 7. Retrieved 19 August 2018.
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