village near Vyatka. They were 8 in the
family: his
father, mother, 5 brothers and Victor. When he was a boy,he liked drawing
and painting pictures.
In 1867 Vasnetsov moved to St. Petersburg.
He studied at the Academy of Arts.
We can see many paintings by Vasnetsov
in Tretyakov Art Gallery in Moscow.
Vasnetsov did the architectural design
for the building of the gallery.
He died in 1926 in his house in Moscow.
Now it’s the Vasnetsov House Museum.