Ceremonial Sitting of the State Council on 7 May 1901 Marking the Centenary of its Foundation
Ilya Repin · 1903
Ilya Repin
Russian Empire · 1844–1930
Ilya Yefimovich Repin was a Ukrainian-born Russian painter. He became one of the most renowned artists in Russia in the 19th century. His major works include Barge Haulers on the Volga (1873), Religious Procession in Kursk Province (1880–1883), Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan (1885), and Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks (1880–1891). Repin is also known for the revealing portraits he made of the leading Russian literary and artistic figures of his time, including Mikhail Glinka, Modest Mussorgsky, Pavel Tretyakov, and especially Leo Tolstoy, with whom he had a long friendship. Repin was born and brought up in Chuguev, then part of Russia.
Known works
Saint Nicholas of Myra saves three innocents from death
Ilya Repin · 1888
State Russian Museum
Saint Nicholas of Myra saves three innocents from death is a painting by Russian artist Ilya Repin (1844 to 1930), completed in 1888. It is held at the Russian Museum in St. Petersburg (Inventory Zh-4001).
Religious Procession in Kursk Province
Ilya Repin · 1880
Tretyakov Gallery
Religious Procession in Kursk Governorate (also known as Easter Procession in the District of Kursk or A Religious Procession in Kursk Gubernia') is a large oil on canvas painting by Russian realist artist Ilya Repin (1844 to 1930). Completed between 1880 and 1883, the work shows a seething, huddled mass attending the annual crucession (cross-carrying Eastern Orthodox religious procession) which carried the famous icon Our Lady of Kursk from its home at the Korennaya Pustyn Monastery to the nearby city of Kursk, western Russia. The procession is led through a dusty landscape by robed, Orthodox priests holding icons, festoons and banners over their heads.
Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks
Ilya Repin · 1890
State Russian Museum
Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks is a painting by Ukrainian-born Russian realist artist Ilya Repin. It is also known as Cossacks of Saporog Are Drafting a Manifesto and Cossacks are Writing a Letter to the Turkish Sultan. Repin began painting the canvas in 1880 and finished in 1891.
Barge Haulers on the Volga
Ilya Repin · 1870
State Russian Museum
Barge Haulers on the Volga or Burlaki is an 1870 to 1873 oil-on-canvas painting by Russian realist artist Ilya Repin. It depicts 11 men (burlaki) hauling a barge along the banks of the Volga River. They are at the point of collapse from exhaustion, oppressed by heavy, hot weather.
Sadko
Ilya Repin · 1876
State Russian Museum
Sadko, also known as Sadko in the Underwater Kingdom, is an oil-on-canvas painting by Ilya Repin, made in 1876 during a visit to France. Based on a Russian epic poem, it depicts the merchant and musician Sadko who must choose one of the daughters of the Sea Tsar to marry. Tsesarevich Alexander Alexandrovich, the future Tsar Alexander III, bought the painting which is in the collection of the Russian Museum in Saint Petersburg.
They Did Not Expect Him
Ilya Repin · 1888
Tretyakov Gallery
They Did Not Expect Him is a painting by realist artist Ilya Repin made between 1884 and 1888. It depicts the return of a narodnik from exile and his family's reaction. The painting is part of Repin's "Narodniki" series, which includes four other artworks.
Ivan the Terrible and his son Ivan on November 16, 1581
Ilya Repin · 1883
Tretyakov Gallery
Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan on 16 November 1581 is a painting by Russian realist artist Ilya Repin made between 1883 and 1885. It depicts the grief-stricken Russian tsar Ivan the Terrible cradling his dying son, the Tsarevich Ivan Ivanovich, shortly after Ivan the Terrible had dealt a fatal blow to his son's head in a fit of anger. The painting portrays the anguish and remorse on the face of the elder Ivan and the shock and heartbreak of the dying Tsarevich, who sheds a tear at the unexpected betrayal and shock of having been killed at his father's hands.
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