Vereshchagin

Vereshchagin (Верещагин) is a Russian masculine surname, its feminine counterpart is Vereshchagina. It was also a name of an old Russian Boyar family.

Notable surname bearers

 * Pavel Vereshchagin, a character from the 1970 Soviet movie White Sun of the Desert
 * Pyotr Vereshchagin (1834/36–1886), Russian landscape and cityscape painter
 * Vasily Petrovich Vereshchagin (1835–1909), Russian portraitist, history painter and illustrator, brother of Pyotr
 * Nikolay Vereshchagin (1839–1907), organizer of Russian cheese and butter industry
 * Vasily Vereshchagin (1842–1904), Russian war painter, brother of Nikolay
 * The V. V. Vereshchagin Mykolaiv Art Museum
 * Nikolai Kuzmich Vereshchagin (1908–2008), Russian zoologist who specialized in the study of mammoths and other Arctic paleofauna, grandson of the war painter Vasily Vereshchagin
 * Igor Vereshchagin (b. 1952), Russian music and street photographer.