Baltic Sea

Vasily Vasilyevich Meshkov was a Russian painter, People's Artist of the RSFSR, and a full member of the Academy of Arts of the USSR (1958). He studied at his father V. N. Meshkov's studio school and at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (1909–1916) under K. A. Korovin, S. V. Malyutin, and A. M. Korin. He was a master of epic landscapes and a theater artist. During the Great Patriotic War, he created the series "Along the Roads of the Fascist Retreat." He is known for his majestic interpretation of Russian nature ("Tale of the Urals," "Kama," "Golden Autumn in Karelia"). He was awarded the State (Stalin) Prize of the USSR for his "Kama" landscape series. His works are held in the Tretyakov Gallery, the Russian Museum, and other museum collections.