Vereshchagin was able to convey this important point.
For many, the military creativity of Vereshchagin remained incomprehensible.
About 20 paintings Vereshchagin devoted to the Patriotic War of 1812.
With the beginning of the Russo-Turkish war, Vereshchagin goes to the battlefields.
Winter again, and again the French army, captured in the picture Vereshchagin.
Vereshchagin was twice in Central Asia,
which inspired him to write the Turkestan series of paintings.
A huge role in the work of Vereshchagin was played by the theme of the war.
Vereshchagin set out to show the society a truthful picture of the war,
to reveal its true appearance.
And
if Aivazovsky often depicted sea battles, then Vereshchagin on his canvases portrayed land battles and mostly Asian ones.
Vereshchagin, perhaps the only artist who did not
have power over self-respect, and he could truthfully enough to display on his canvases.
Vereshchagin, perhaps, is the only artist who was
not subject to narcissism, and he could fairly truthfully display on his canvases the truth of military life.
For two trips to India, Vereshchagin managed to write a series of paintings, devoting them
to the culture, nature and way of life of its peoples.
Baluschek began to copy pictures and
to paint his own war scenes in the manner of Vereshchagin, whose influence may be detected in some of Baluschek's later works.
Kramskoy was one of the few who admiring the paintings of Vereshchagin, called the author“the great Russian”,
raising the Russian spirit and forcing the hearts to beat proudly.
In some sources, it is reported that Vereshchagin was invited to Turkestan,
at the time when the military actions were going on, to create a military chronicle in the painting.