presided over by Admiral Makarov, was recovered almost undamaged.<ref> "State Historical Museum Opens 'The Year 1812 in the Paintings by Vasily Vereshchagin'," Art Daily, March 11, 2010; "War Lasted 18 Months ... Russian Miscalculation," New York Times, August 30, 1905.</ref> Legacy The town of Vereshchagino in Perm Krai is named after him, as well as a minor planet, 3410 Vereshchagin, discovered by Soviet astronomer Lyudmila Zhuravlyova in 1978. Vereshchagin Street in Cherepovets is named after Vasily Vereshchagin, also there are a historic house museum and a monument to Vereshchagin in Cherepovets. He is a distant relative of the Czech rock singer Aleš Brichta. The Apotheosis of War was used by Czech heavy metal band Arakain as the cover art for the album Farao. Gallery See also List of Orientalist artists Orientalism Further reading ; Pleshakov, Constantine. "The Tsar's Last Armada-The Epic Voyage to the Battle of Tsushima." (2002). Notes References Kowner, Rotem (2006). "Historical Dictionary of the Russo-Japanese War". Scarecrow. 620pp. Leonard D. Abbott, "Verestchagin, Painter of War." The Comrade (New York), vol. 1, no. 7 (April 1902), pp. 155–156. Art Institute of Chicago, Works of Vassili Verestchagin: an Illustrated, descriptive catalogue and two appendixes to the catalogue Realism and Progress in Art by Verestchagin. W. T. Stead, "Vassili Verestchagin: Character Sketch," Review of Reviews (London), vol. 19 (January 1899), frontispiece, 22–33. Maria Chernysheva, "The Russian Gérôme? Vereshchagin as a Painter of Turkestan," RIHA Journal'', September 2014. External links Vereshchagin page at Olga's Gallery Vasily Vereshchagin: horrors of war through artist’s eyes Vereshchagin's lost paintings 1842 births 1904 deaths People from Cherepovets 19th-century painters from the Russian Empire Russian male painters 20th-century Russian painters Realist painters Orientalist painters Painters from Saint Petersburg Russian war artists Russian military personnel of the Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878) Russian military personnel of the Russo-Japanese War Russian military personnel killed in the Russo-Japanese War 19th-century war artists Russian people of Tatar descent Naval Cadet Corps alumni