Vereshchagin

Coat of arms of the Vereshchagin noble family

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 members[edit]

* Pavel Vereshchagin, a character from the 1970 Soviet movie White Sun of the Desert
* 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
* Pyotr Vereshchagin  (1834/36–1886), Russian landscape and cityscape painter
* Vasily Vereshchagin (1842–1904), Russian war painter
* The V. V. Vereshchagin Mykolaiv Art Museum
* Vasily Petrovich Vereshchagin (1835–1909), Russian portraitist, history painter and illustrator, brother of Pyotr
* Igor Vereshchagin (b. 1952), Russian music and street photographer.

## See also[edit]

* Vereshchagino

## References[edit]

1. ^ 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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