Ilya Yefimovich Repin

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Ilyá Yefímovich Répin (Илья́ Ефи́мович Ре́пин) (August 5 1844 (Julian calendar: July 24) – September 29 1930) was a leading Russian painter and sculptor of the Peredvizhniki artistic school. His realistic works often express scathing criticism of existing social order.

Repin was born in Chuguev near Kharkov (now part of Ukraine). His father was a military officer. In 1866 he went to Saint Petersburg and was admitted to the Imperial Academy of Arts as a student. Repin sojourned in Italy and Paris on the Academy's allowance from 1873 to 1876. He painted a large number of peasants, fishwomen and scenes from merchant life. Template:Commons

Repin joined the Association of Peredvizhniki Artists in 1878. From 1882 he lived in Saint Petersburg but made frequent tours abroad. Inspired by Rembrandt's portraits of old people, he painted many of his celebrated compatriots, including Leo Tolstoy, Dmitri Mendeleev, Pobedonostsev, and Mussorgsky. In 1903 he was commissioned by the Russian government to paint his most grandiose design, a 400 x 877 cm canvas representing a ceremonial session of the State Council. Image:Repin Cossacks.jpg

After 1917 October Revolution, his home Penaty, located to the north from Saint Petersburg, was incorporated into Finland. He was invited by Lenin to come back to Russia but was too old to make a journey. He died in Kuokkala, Finland (now Repino, Leningrad Oblast) in 1930.

Repin's most famous paintings are Ivan the Terrible killing his son (1885), Burlaks on the Volga (1870-73), and The Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks to Sultan of Turkey (1880-91).

Alexander Glazunov's Oriental Rhapsody, Op. 29 (1889) is dedicated to Ilya Repin.

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Paintings

Repin's paintings appear in the following Wikipedia articles:

Peredvizhniki | Cossacks | State Council of Imperial Russia | Ivan IV of Russia | Myra | Sadko | Eudoxia Streshneva | Sophia Alekseyevna | Modest Mussorgsky | Dmitry Mendeleyev | Gavriil Derzhavin | Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum | Anton Rubinstein | Aleksey Pisemsky | Konstantin Pobedonostsev | Sergius Witte | Pavel Tretyakov | Afanasy Fet | Vladimir Stasov | Leo Tolstoy

Ivan the Terrible and his son Ivan 1870-1873	Burlaks on Volga , 1870-73	Sadko in the Underwater Kingdom 1876	Apples and Leaves 1879
Party 1883	Grand Duke Choosing His Bride 1885	Portrait of Leo Tolstoy 1887	St Nicholas of Myra in Lycia 1889
Portrait of Mendeleev	Portrait of Leo Tolstoy 1893	Portrait of writer Alexander Zhirkevich 1894	Ceremonial session of the State Council 1900
Composer Modest Mussorgsky	Anton Rubinstein	Sergius Witte (sketch)	Konstantin Pobedonostsev (sketch)
Pavel Mikhailovich Tretyakov	Sophia Alekseyevna	Afanasy Fet	Vladimir Stasov
Aleksey Pisemsky	Pushkin Reciting His Poem Before Old Derzhavin (1911)