10 Facts About Piotr Vasiliev

Piotr Konstantinovich Vasiliev was a Russian Soviet realist painter, who lived and worked in Leningrad.

Piotr Vasiliev was a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists and regarded as one of representatives of the Leningrad school of painting.

Piotr Konstantinovich Vasiliev was born on 26 January 1909 in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire in the working-class family.

In 1930, Piotr Vasiliev entered at the first course of Department of Painting at the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, where he studied of noted educators Mikhail Bernshtein, Alexander Lubimov, Vladimir Serov, Arcady Rylov.

In 1938 Piotr Vasiliev graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in Isaak Brodsky studio, together with Alexander Laktionov, Yuri Neprintsev, and other young artists.

In June 1941, Piotr Vasiliev was drafted into the Red Army and took part in the Great Patriotic War of the Soviet people against Nazi Germany and its allies.

Piotr Vasiliev fought on the Leningrad Front, Karelian Front, and 3rd Ukrainian Front.

Piotr Vasiliev painted portraits, landscapes, still lifes, genre and historical paintings.

In 1946 Piotr Vasiliev was admitted to the Leningrad Union of Soviet Artists.

Piotr Konstantinovich Vasiliev died on 9 June 1989 in Leningrad in the eighty-first year of his life.