1. Vasiliy Ivanovich Surikov (1848 – 1916)

2. Vasiliy Ivanovich Surikov was born on the 12 th of January,1848 in Krasnoyarsk. Nowadays the house where Surikov was born is a museum. He loved his native town and Siberia very much. Siberia and Surikov are two inseparable notions. The Surikov`s house

3. Vasiliy Ivanovich came from ancient Cossack's kith and was proud of that. That's why he painted such pictures as “Pokoreniye Sibiri Jermakom” and “Vzyatiye snegnogo gorodka”(1891) with special pleasure. “Vzyatiye snegnogo gorodka”(1891)

4. On the base of events of the XVII century Surikov created trilogy: “Utro streletskoj kazny”, ”Menshikov v Berezove” and “Boyarinya Morozova”. ”Menshikov v Berezove”

5. The most popular Surikov`s pictures “Perechod Suvorova cherez Alpi” “Utro streletskoj kazny”

6. In 1910 Surikov established his first school of art in Siberia. Surikov`s art is the top of Russian and world painting. “Mednij vsadnik”

7. In 1916 Vasiliy Ivanovich Surikov died in Moscow.