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 surname bearers

• 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
  • The V. V. Vereshchagin Mykolaiv Art Museum
• 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 (born 1952), Russian music and street photographer.

See also

• Vereshchagino

References

1. Soviet Anthropology and Archaeology: ISAP Translations from Original Soviet Sources. International Arts and Sciences Press. 1965. p. 7. Retrieved 19 August 2018.