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Ilya Repin
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 th…
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culture · Ukrainian-born Russian painter (1844–1930) · painter · sculptor · essayist · graphic artist · teacher · also Ilya Repin, Ilja Jefimovitš Repin, Ilia Efimovich Repin, Ilja Jefimovitsj Repin, Ilja Jefimovič Rjepin, Il'︠i︡a Efimovich Repin
Born 24 July 1844 · Died 29 September 1930 · Q172911
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2026· 1 entry
2025· 1 entry
scmp.com: China hosts exhibition emphasising ‘Russianness’ of realist painter Ilya Repin
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2024· 1 entry
Kyiv Post: Finland’s Largest Art Museum Acknowledges Ilya Repin as Ukrainian
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2023· 1 entry
Kyiv Post: Stolen culture: Ilya Repin, the Kharkiv Cossack Devoted to Ukraine
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2018· 2 entries
TASS: Painter Ilya Repin’s canvas damaged by vandal at Moscow museum not insured
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RBTH: Ilya Repin masterpiece seriously damaged by vandal in Moscow’s Tretyakov Gallery
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2015· 1 entry
Time Out: Ilya Repin: Master Works from the State Tretyakov Gallery
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1948· 1 entry
Despite Repin's hostility towards Bolshevism, it was renamed Repino in his honor
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1939· 1 entry
The territory of Kuokkala was annexed by the Soviet Union
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1930· 3 entries
Died 1930-09-29.
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At the age of 86 and was buried at the Penates
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And was buried at The Penates ('Penaty')
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1925· 1 entry
A jubilee exhibition of his works was held in the Russian Museum in Leningrad (renamed St Petersburg-Petrograd)
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1924· 1 entry
In Kuokkala to mark Repin's 80th birthday, and an exhibition of his works was held in Moscow
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1923· 1 entry
Repin held a one-man exhibition in Prague
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1920· 1 entry
Awarded Commander of the Order of the White Rose of Finland (1920).
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1919· 1 entry
Donated his collection of works by Russian artists and his own works to the Finnish National Gallery in Helsinki, and in 1920, honorary celebrations of Repin were held by artistic circles in Finland
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1917· 1 entry
But was appalled by the violence and terror unleashed by the Bolsheviks following the October Revolution
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1916· 1 entry
Repin worked on his book of reminiscences, Far and Near, with the assistance of Korney Chukovsky
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1914· 1 entry
Brought a series of setbacks and tragedies to Repin
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1909· 1 entry
Painted Gogol Burning the Manuscript of the Second Part of Dead Souls, and in 1910, portraits of Pyotr Stolypin, and the children's writer and poet Korney Chukovsky
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1908· 1 entry
Publicly denounced capital punishment in Russia
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1907· 1 entry
Resigned from the Academy of Arts, visited Chuguyev and the Crimea, and wrote reminiscences of Vladimir Stasov
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1905· 1 entry
Following the repression of street demonstrations by the Imperial government, Repin quit his teaching position at the Academy of Arts
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1904· 1 entry
Gave a speech at a memorial gathering for the artist Vasily Vereshchagin
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1901· 1 entry
Received from the tsar one of his largest commissions, portraits of all sixty members of State Council
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1900· 1 entry
Took Nordman to the World Exhibition in Paris, where he served as a painting judge
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1899· 2 entries
Joined the editorial board of the magazine World of Art, but soon quit
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Acquired land near the village of Kuokkala, about forty kilometres north of St
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1898· 2 entries
With his second wife, he built a country house, which he called "The Penates" ('Penaty' in Russian) in Kuokkala, Viipuri Province, Finland, where they entertained Russian society
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Traveled to the Holy Land, and painted the icon Carrying the Cross for the Russian Orthodox Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Jerusalem
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1897· 1 entry
Rejoined the Wanderers, and was appointed rector of the Higher Artistic School for a year
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1896· 1 entry
Attended the All-Russian Exhibition in Nizhny Novgorod
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1895· 1 entry
Painted portraits of Emperor Nicholas II, and Princess Maria Tenisheva
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1894· 1 entry
Began teaching a class at the Higher Art School attached to the Academy of Arts, a position he held, off and on, until 1907
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1893· 1 entry
Visited academic art schools in Warsaw, Kraków, Munich, Vienna, and Paris to observe and study teaching methods
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1892· 1 entry
Held a one-man exhibition at the History Museum in Moscow
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1891· 1 entry
Resigned from the Wanderers in protest against a new statute that restricted the rights of young artists
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1890· 2 entries
Repin met Natalia Nordman (1863–1914), who became his common-law wife
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Was given a government commission to work on the creation of a new statute for the Academy of Arts
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1888· 1 entry
Traveled to southern Russia and the Caucasus, where he did sketches and studies of descendants of the Zaporozhian Cossacks
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1887· 1 entry
Visited Austria, Italy, and Germany, and retired from the board of the Wanderers, painted two portraits of Leo Tolstoy at Yasnaya Polyana and painted Alexander Pushkin on the Shore of the Black Sea (in collaboration w
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1886· 1 entry
Traveled to the Crimea with Arkhip Kuindzhi, and produced drawings and sketches on biblical subjects
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1885· 1 entry
When his history portrait of Ivan the Terrible killing his own son in a fit of rage caused a scandal, resulting in the painting being removed from exhibition
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1883· 1 entry
Traveled around Western Europe with Vladimir Stasov
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1882· 1 entry
And Vera divorced; they maintained a friendly relationship afterwards
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1880· 1 entry
Leo Tolstoy came to Repin's small studio on Bolshoi Trubny street in Moscow to introduce himself
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1876· 3 entries
Painted a portrait of his wife Vera in the exact style of Berthe Morisot's portrait by Édouard Manet
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Wrote to the secretary of the Russian academy of arts: "You told me not to become "Francified
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His Sadko painting won him a place in the Russian Academy of Fine Arts
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1875· 1 entry
Wrote to Stasov about "The liberty of the "impressionalists", Manet, Monet et the others, and their infantile truthfulness
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1873· 1 entry
Repin traveled to Italy and France with his family
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1872· 2 entries
Presented his drawings at the academy after a tour along the Volga River
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“Now it is the peasant who is the judge and so it is necessary to represent his interests. (That is just the thing for me, since I am myself, as you know, a peasant, the son of a retired soldier who served twenty-seven hard years in Nicholas I”
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1871· 1 entry
Studied at Imperial Academy of Arts (1863–1871).
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1870· 1 entry
With two other artists, Repin traveled to the Volga River to sketch landscapes and studies of barge haulers (the Repin House in Tolyatti and the Repin Museum on the Volga commemorate this visit)
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1869· 1 entry
Was awarded a gold medal second-class for his painting Job and His Brothers
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1863· 1 entry
Audited courses, and won his first prizes in 1869 and 1871
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1855· 1 entry
At the age of eleven, he was enrolled at the local school where his mother taught
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1844· 1 entry
Born 1844-07-24.
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