Vasily Vereshchagin. (№ 322403)

More battle pictures will not write - Basta! I'm too close to my heart accept what I write, viplachivau (literally) Woe to every wounded and the dead.

Quote Explanation: After finishing a series of paintings about the Russian-Turkish war of 1877-1878, in a letter to his friend, the art critic Vladimir Stasov.