Before me, as before Amen, is a war, and I will fight it with all my might; Whether my punches are strong or effective is another question, a question of my talent, but I hit with swing and without mercy. All my life I loved the sun passionately and I wanted to paint the sun, and after I had to experience the war and express my opinion about it, I was happy that I could give myself to the sun. The ghost of the war still forces me to paint a war, and if I want to paint the sun, then I must steal from myself the time. The artist who most wanted to paint the sun was against the war, but had to paint the war, and so he died in the war. Today is the birthday of Vasily Vershchagin (1842–1904), Russian battle painter, author of "The Apotheosis of War", participant in several wars, who died together with Admiral Makobe on the battleship "Petropavlovsk" near Port Arthur. good night

Before me, as before Amen, is a war, and I will fight it with all my might; Whether my punches are strong or effective is another question, a question of my talent, but I hit with swing and without mercy. All my life I loved the sun passionately and I wanted to paint the sun, and after I had to experience the war and express my opinion about it, I was happy that I could give myself to the sun. The ghost of the war still forces me to paint a war, and if I want to paint the sun, then I must steal from myself the time. The artist who most wanted to paint the sun was against the war, but had to paint the war, and so he died in the war. Today is the birthday of Vasily Vershchagin (1842–1904), Russian battle painter, author of "The Apotheosis of War", participant in several wars, who died together with Admiral Makobe on the battleship "Petropavlovsk" near Port Arthur. good night