Vasili Ivanovich Surikov

Style: Realism; Symbolism;

Place: Krasnoyarsk

Born: 1848

Death: 1916

Biography:

Vasily Ivanovich Surikov (Russian: Василий Иванович Суриков 24 January 1848, Krasnoyarsk - 19 March 1916, Moscow) was a Russian Realist history painter. Many of his works have become familiar to the general public through their use as illustrations. He was born to an old Don Cossack family that had settled in Siberia. His father was a Collegiate Re...