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===Childhood (1848–1858)=== Viktor Vasnetsov was born in the remote village of Lopyal in [[Vyatka Governorate]] in 1848, the second of the seven children (his only sister died 4 months after her birth).<ref name="smr">{{cite web | url =http://www.centre.smr.ru/win/artists/vasnec_v/biogr_vasnec1.htm | title = Богатырь русской живописи| publisher = centre.smr.ru| access-date = 1 January 2011}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last1=Vasnet︠s︡ova|first1=O. A. (Olʹga A.)|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1222809052|title=Vasnet︠s︡ovshchina|last2=Васнецова, О. А. (Ольга А.)|year=2019|isbn=978-5-6042722-0-6|location=Moskva|pages=46–47, 63|oclc=1222809052}}</ref> His father Mikhail Vasilievich Vasnetsov (1823–1870), known to be philosophically inclined, was a member of the priesthood,<ref name=brit/> and a scholar of the [[natural sciences]] and [[astronomy]]. His grandfather was an [[icon]] painter. Two of Mikhail Vasnetsov's six sons, Viktor and [[Apollinary Vasnetsov|Apollinary]], became remarkable painters, three becoming schoolteachers and one a Russian folklorist.<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Vasnet︠s︡ova|first1=O. A. (Olʹga A.)|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1222809052|title=Vasnet︠s︡ovshchina|last2=Васнецова, О. А. (Ольга А.)|year=2019|isbn=978-5-6042722-0-6|location=Moskva|pages=64, 78, 88–89, 98|oclc=1222809052}}</ref> It was in Lopyal that Viktor started to paint, mostly landscapes and scenes of village life. Recalling his childhood in a letter to [[Vladimir Stasov]], Vasnetsov remarked that he "had lived with peasant children and liked them not as a [[narodnik]] but as a friend".<ref name="smr"/>
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