The painting “The Princess Sophia in the Novodevichy Monastery” was the first work of I. Repin on historical topics. It was written in 1879. The plot is based on real events of […]

This canvas was written by Repin back in 1881. Then the artist seemed to predict the imminent demise of the great scientist and physician, because literally several months after the completion of […]

The painting “Preparation for the exam” is one of the early works of the artist. It was written in 1864, when Repin was only 20 years old. Probably in the work we […]

The author of many world-famous canvases, Russian genius Ilya Repin in 1877 created another masterpiece of genre painting. The work is called “Return from the war.” A multi-figured composition with deep social […]

This canvas depicts the meeting of several revolutionaries. They found a secluded corner, locked themselves in a dark room and discuss ambitious plans. A total of 13 people in the room, several […]

Ilya Efimovich Repin created the work “Job and his friends” in the period of receiving the title of free artist – it was 1869. At the core of the writing of the […]

For the first time, the artist conceived to write this picture after he had to witness the massacre of “national criminals.” As you know, these people were not criminals at all, they […]

The year 1900 was marked for Ilya Repin by a secondary marriage. His chosen one was the daughter of Admiral, writer Natalia Nordman-Severova, in whose name he acquired an estate in the […]

For many years, Tolstoy and Repin were tied by a gentle warm friendship, despite the fact that on many issues they did not agree completely and often heatedly argued, causing others to […]

The painting “Burlak” (1870) is one of the works that preceded the appearance of the large-scale and famous canvas by Ilya Repin “Burlaks on the Volga”, a portrait of Canina’s haulers. For […]