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Summary

Artist



Alternative names	Russian: Василий Васильевич Верещагин
Description	Russian painter
Date of birth/death	26 October 1842	13 April 1904
Location of birth/death	Cherepovets	Port Arthur, today Lüshunkou
Work location	Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Paris, Munich
Authority control	WorldCat

Title

Blowing from Guns in British India

Description

Ныне не существующая картина В. Верещагина «Подавление индийского восстания англичанами» (около 1884 года). Находилась в США. По легенде, выкуплена и затем уничтожена англичанами.

Date

c. 1884

Medium

painting

Notes

Was in the United States. According to legend, bought and then destroyed by the British.

Source/Photographer

vokrugsveta.ru

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Indian Rebellion of 1857

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