REPIN, ILYA YEFIMOVICH

ēlyäˈ yĭfēˈməvĭch ryĕˈpĭn, 1844–1930, Russian historical and genre painter and sculptor. He studied in St. Petersburg and abroad and became the foremost representative of the realistic style in Russia. In his Volga Boatmen, The Arrest of a Political Offender, and The Terrorists Repin expressed criticism of the social order. His large historical paintings, e.g., Ivan the Terrible and The Cossacks Drafting a Letter to the Sultan, are his best-known works. Most of his pictures are in the museums of Moscow and St. Petersburg.

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...360 Musorgsky, a portrait by Ilya Repin, 1881 361 An Impersonal Note FOR NO very obvious...and was numbered in the Stasov "troika" alongside Repin and Musorgsky. And Musorgskys anti-Semitic remarks...
...Seaman RASTRELLI, V. V. P. Makaroff REBIKOV, V. I. G. R. Seaman REIZEN, M. O. G. R. Seaman REPIN, LYE. V. Gregoriy RICHTER, S. T. G. R. Seaman RIMSK-KORSAKOV, N. A. G. R. Seaman Rossi, K. I...
...and galloping with plates of underdone beef steaks. Beer flowed like a river. Waiting at the station were Tolstoys sons Ilya and Andrey. Sergey was on the train which came to fetch Tolstoys body and take it to Yasnaya Polyana. Students and young...
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REPIN, ILYA YEFIMOVICH elya yife m vich rye pin, 1844 1930, Russian historical and genre...Volga Boatmen, The Arrest of a Political Offender, and The Terrorists Repin expressed criticism of the social order. His large historical paintings...


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