Olga's Gallery
Vasily Vereshchagin.
Ruins in Chuguchak.
1869. Oil on canvas. The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia. More. 
Chuguchak was once a flourishing city in Turkestan with beautiful historical buildings. It was destroyed before the Russian invasion of Central Asia, in one of a series of internal conflicts. Vereshchagin made a series of paintings of Chuguchak’s ruins