Education
Vasily studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture.
Vasily studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture.
He is primarily known as the artist of the painting He first worked as a portraitist but later turned to historical painting. (1862), is a painting depicting the wedding ceremony of an elderly, high-ranking official and a young, visibly unhappy girl. This was one of the celebrated denunciatory pictures of the 1860s, revealing the unequal position of women and the corruption of bureaucracy.
This critical mode, reflecting the general striving for reform in Russia after the Emancipation reform of 1861, was intended to arouse the dormant social conscience and change society. is currently on display at the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, Russia.