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Vasily Vereshchagin visited Turkestan twice — in 1867 and then in 1869. His first visit to Turkestan was on special commission from the Governor General of Russian Turkestan Konstantin Kaufman. Vereshchagin’s well-known Turkestan series is based on images created during these trips. There is no single opinion about how to interpret this cycle among art historians. On the one hand, in Soviet times Vereshchagin’s reputation was that of a progressive artist and a pacifist. On the other, contemporary scholars prefer to locate the Turkestan series within the Orientalist discourse, and the artist himself, in the vanguard of imperialist propaganda. In order to re-examine the works of the painter from multiple perspectives, it is thus important to understand how Vereshchagin’s contemporaries responded to the first exhibitions of his Turkestan series. Our analysis of media responses to the first two of such exhibitions has shown that Vereshchagin’s main opponents published their articles in right-wing papers (The “Russkiy Mir”, “Moskovskie Vedomosti”, “Sovremennye Izvestiia”). It is thus highly doubtful that the Turkestan cycle was perceived as part of the official colonial project. Nevertheless, the postcolonial interpretation of the cycle does have a reason. Vereshchagin’s commission from the Governor General, his participation in the Turkestan Exhibition of 1869, as well as the paintings he exhibited there — all of these factors leave some ground for speculating that his works could have been planned to form a part of Kaufman’s project for Central Asia as part of the empire. We can conclude that the analysis of the publications discussing Vereshchagin’s first exhibitions of the Turkestan series both puts little-known works of art criticism in the limelight and helps us understand the historical context of the series and locate it within Russia’s political and social thought of the time.

Первые выставки среднеазиатских работ В. В. Верещагина в периодической печати и проблема интерпретации произведений Туркестанского цикла