The image of the complete quiet dignity of the Parsan priest, one of the members of the Zoroastrian fire-worshiping community, an interpreter of Vereshchagin in India, who had come down from antiquity.
Work on the works of the “Indian Series” Vereshchagin conducted in Paris, where he even built himself a special workshop with a rotary circle, allowing to move so that the model is constantly in the sun.
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Prêtre Pars (adorateur du feu). Bombay – Vasily Vereshchagin 
Pars sacerdote (adorador del fuego).Bombay – Vasily Vereshchagin 
The suppression of the Indian Uprising by the British by Vasily Vereshchagin 
In the Kremlin by a fire! by Vasily Vereshchagin 
Mountain stream in Kashmir by Vasily Vereshchagin 
Mausoleum of the Taj Mahal by Vasily Vereshchagin 
After good luck by Vasily Vereshchagin 
Defeated. Panikhida by Vasily Vereshchagin
Prêtre Pars (adorateur du feu). Bombay – Vasily Vereshchagin Pars sacerdote (adorador del fuego).Bombay – Vasily Vereshchagin The suppression of the Indian Uprising by the British by Vasily Vereshchagin In the Kremlin by a fire! by Vasily Vereshchagin Mountain stream in Kashmir by Vasily Vereshchagin Mausoleum of the Taj Mahal by Vasily Vereshchagin After good luck by Vasily Vereshchagin Defeated. Panikhida by Vasily Vereshchagin