Memoirs of an Artist's Son

The name and work of the great battle artist Vasily Vasilyevich Vereshchagin, without exaggeration, are known to everyone. His famous paintings “The Apotheosis of War,” “Mortally Wounded,” and “At the Fortress Wall” for the first time showed the general public not the triumph of winners, but the pain, horror, and greatest tragedy of war.
And if we know a lot about how these and other masterpieces were created, then we know much less about the artist’s personal life.
In the audiobook “Memories of the Artist’s Son,” we will get to know this side of Vasily Vereshchagin’s life—closed to many.
Vasily Vasilyevich’s son draws a truthful portrait of his father, recreating the features of his character, habits, and other aspects of life within the family circle. The value of these memories is immeasurably increased because they were written vividly, with great warmth and sincerity—not by an outside observer, but by a person who knew much about his father’s life through his own observations, from his mother’s stories, and from other close relatives.