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{{Short description|Russian painter (1848–1926)}} {{family name hatnote|Mikhaylovich|[[Vasnetsov]]|lang=Eastern Slavic}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2023}} {{Use British English|date=January 2023}} {{Infobox artist | name = Viktor Vasnetsov | native_name = {{Nobold|Виктор Васнецов}} | native_name_lang = ru | image = Vasnetsov VM.jpg | caption = Vasnetsov in 1895 | image_size = | birth_name = Viktor Mikhaylovich Vasnetsov | birth_date = 15 May 1848<ref name=brit>[https://www.britannica.com/biography/Viktor-Mikhaylovich-Vasnetsov Viktor Mikhaylovich Vasnetsov]. Encyclopaedia Britannica</ref> | birth_place = Lopyal, [[Vyatka Governorate]], Russian Empire<ref name=brit/><!-- DO NOT LINK, see [[MOS:GEOLINK]] for further guidance --> | death_date = {{Death date and age|1926|07|23|1848|05|15|df=y}}<ref name=brit/> | death_place = Moscow, Russian SFSR<ref name=brit/><!-- DO NOT LINK, see [[MOS:GEOLINK]] for further guidance -->, Soviet Union<!-- DO NOT LINK, see [[MOS:GEOLINK]] for further guidance --> | field = Painting | training = [[Imperial Academy of Arts]] | movement = [[Symbolism (arts)|Symbolism]]; [[History painting]], [[Peredvizhniki]] | works = {{Plainlist| * ''A Knight at the Crossroads'' * ''[[Bogatyrs]]'' }} | patrons = {{Hlist|[[Pavel Tretyakov]]|[[Savva Mamontov]]}} | relatives = [[Apollinary Vasnetsov|Apollinary]] (brother) |signature=Viktor Vasnetsov Signature 1886.png }} '''Viktor Mikhaylovich Vasnetsov''' ({{langx|ru|link=no|Ви́ктор Миха́йлович Васнецо́в}}; 15 May ([[New Style|N.S.]]), 1848 – 23 July 1926) was a Russian artist who specialised in [[mythological]] and historical subjects. He is considered a co-founder of [[Russian folklorist]] and [[romantic nationalistic]] painting,<ref name="krugosvet">{{cite web |url=http://www.krugosvet.ru/enc/kultura_i_obrazovanie/izobrazitelnoe_iskusstvo/VASNETSOV_VIKTOR_MIHALOVICH.html |title=Васнецов, Виктор Михайлович |trans-title=Viktor Mikhaylovich Vasnetsov |website=krugosvet.ru |access-date=1 January 2011 |language=ru}}</ref> and a key figure in the [[Russian Revival]]ist movement.
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