Notes:
[1] Matthew Weaver, “Cardiff Philharmonic removes Tchaikovsky performance over Ukraine conflict,” The Guardian, March 09, 2022, https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/mar/09/cardiff-philharmonic-orchestra-removes-tchaikovsky-over-ukraine-conflict?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other.
[2] Emma Pinedo, “Madrid’s Opera House cancels Russian’s Bolshoi ballet show after Ukraine invasion,” Reuters, March 04, 2022, https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/madrids-opera-house-cancels-russias-bolshoi-ballet-show-after-ukraine-invasion-2022-03-04/.
[3] Sophia Kishkovsky, “London’s Saatchi Gallery cancels Russian-organised show of Ukrainian art social media backlash,” The Art Newspaper, August 17, 2022, https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/08/17/londons-saatchi-gallery-cancels-russian-organised-show-of-ukrainian-art-after-social-media-storm.
[4] Yahoo Entertainment (@yahooentertainment), original video content from Evel Pie. “#Vegas bar protests Russian invasion by allowing customers to purchase $300 bottles of Russian-produced #vodka to dump out,” TikTok, February 28, 2022, https://www.tiktok.com/@yahooentertainment/video/7069823352277601582?lang=en.
[5] “Russian Art & Soviet Nonconformist Art,” accessed June 10, 2023, Zimmerli Art Museum of Rutgers University, https://zimmerli.rutgers.edu/collections/russian-art-soviet-nonconformist-art.
[6] David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, “Vasilij V. Vereshchagin’s Canvases of Central Asian Conquest,” Chaier d’Asie central 17/18, (2009), 182, https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/224150223.pdf.
[7] Clayton Schuster, “The Apotheosis of War,” Sartle, accessed June 10, 2023, https://www.sartle.com/artwork/the-apotheosis-of-war-vasily-vereshchagin. Originally noted and discussed by Russian biographer, Fedor I. Bulgakov in 1905 in his work V.V. Vereshchagin i ego proizvedenija [V.V. Vereshchagin and his Works].
[8] van der Oye, 186.
[9] van der Oye, 187.
[10] Vassili Verestchagin, Soldier-Painter-Traveler, Autobiographical Sketches, Volume I,
translated from German and French by FH Peters (London, UK: Richard Bentley & Son: 1887), 99-103.
[11] Ibid, 144-145.
[12] van der Oye, 182. The show itself was discussed in the April 7, 1873 London Times article, “Central Asia at the Crystal Palace.”
[13] van der Oye, “Vasilij V. Vereshchagin’s Canvases of Central Asian Conquest,” 202.
[14] Vassili Verestchagin, Soldier-Painter-Traveler, Autobiographical Sketches, Volume II,
translated from German and French by FH Peters (London, UK: Richard Bentley & Son: 1887), 275.
[15] Maureen P. O’Connor, The Vision of Soldiers: Britain, France, Germany, and the United States Observe the Russo-Turkish War, War in History 4, no. 3 (July 1997), 267-271.
[16] Verestchagin, Soldier-Painter-Traveler, Autobiographical Sketches, Volume II, 137.
[17] Ibid, 210-220.
[18] John Bushnell, “The Tsarist Officer Corps, 1881-1914: Customs, Duties, Inefficiency,” The American Historical Review 86, no. 4 (October 1981), 754 – 755.
[19] Ibid, 754.
[20] Ibid, 764.
[21] O’Connor, “The Vision of Soldiers,” 267-276.
[22] Bushnell, 773-774.
[23] “A Resting Place of Prisoners” and “The Road of War Prisoners,” European Art, Collection Menu, Brooklyn Museum, accessed June 10, 2023, https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/4630.
[24] O’Connor, “The Vision of Soldiers,” 279-280, 288.
[25] Verestchagin, Soldier-Painter-Traveler, Autobiographical Sketches, Volume II, 187, 275.
[26] Verestchagin, Soldier-Painter-Traveler, Autobiographical Sketches, Volume II, 275.
[27] “A Resting Place of Prisoners” and “The Road of War Prisoners,” European Art, Collection Menu, Brooklyn Museum, accessed June 10, 2023, https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/4630.
[28] Verestchagin, Soldier-Painter-Traveler, Autobiographical Sketches, Volume II, 330.
