Konstantin Vasilyev, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Konstantin Vasilyev

Soviet artist

Date of Birth: 03-Sep-1942

Place of Birth: Maykop, Republic of Adygea, Russia

Date of Death: 29-Oct-1976

Profession: painter

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Konstantín Alexeyevich Vasilyev (Russian: ?????????´? ??????´???? ????´????; September 3, 1942 – October 29, 1976) was a Russian symbolist painter, who left more than 400 paintings and drawings.
His range of works included portraits, landscapes, realistic compositions, Russian epics, Slavic and Teutonic mythology, and battle paintings.
Vasilyev popularized legendary characters of the Russian folk art, songs and fairy tales: Ilya Muromets, Mikula Selyaninovich, Svyatogor, Dunay Ivanovich, Dobrynya Nikitich, Volga Svyatoslavich and others.
His Scandinavian and Germanic saga cycle includes depictions of Odin, Freyja and valkyries.
Several paintings are devoted to the Great Patriotic War of the Soviet people.
These include "Marshal Zhukov", "Invasion", "The Parade of 1941" and "Nostalgia."