Editing Viktor Vasnetsov (section)

===Vyatka (1858–1867)===
From the age of ten, Viktor studied in a [[seminary]] in Vyatka, each summer moving with his family to a rich merchant village of Ryabovo. During his seminary years, he worked for a local [[icon]] shopkeeper. He also helped an exiled Polish artist, [[Michał Elwiro Andriolli]], to execute [[fresco]]es for Vyatka's [[Alexander Nevsky]] cathedral.

Having graduated from the seminary, Viktor decided to move to [[Saint Petersburg]] to study art.<ref name=brit/> He auctioned his paintings of ''Woman Harvester'' and ''Milk-maid'' (both 1867) to raise the money required for the trip to the Russian capital.