Ilya Yefimovich Repin (5 August 1844 – 29 September 1930)

Ilya Repin, Zaporizhzhya Cossacks 1878-1891.

The picture is also known as The Zaporizhzhya Cossacks Replying 

to the Sultan.

According to legend, the letter was written in 1676 by the Koshev Ataman

 Ivan Sirko in response to an ultimatum from Sultan 

Mehmed (Mohammed) IV of the Ottoman Empire. At that time there was 

a Russian-Turkish war of 1672-1681, and the sultan demanded in writing 

from the Zaporizhian Sich to obey him, as hetman Petro Doroshenko did.

One day the historian Dmytro Yavornytsky read out a copy of this letter to his 

guests, among whom was Ilya Repin.

The artist became interested in the subject and in 1880 began his first 

series of sketches.

Ilya Repin, Get Thee Behind Me, Satan 1895.

Ilya Repin, Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan on November 16th, 1581.

Also known as Ivan the Terrible Killing His Son. Written in 1883-1885.

It depicts a legendary episode in the life of Ivan the Terrible, when in a 

violent rage he inflicted a fatal blow on his son, Tsarevich Ivan.

The painting is in the collection of the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow.

Ilya Repin, Krestny Khod (Religious Procession) in Kursk Gubernia 

1880 - 1883.

Ilya Repin, Grand Duchess Sofia at the 

Novodevichy Convent 1879.

Ilya Repin, Golgotha 1921-1922.

Ilya Repin, Portrait of Lev Tolstoy 1887.

Ilya Repin, Saint Nicholas of Myra Saves Three Innocents from 

Death 1888.

Ilya Repin, Slavic Composers 1872.

Slavic Composers is a group portrait of Slavic (Russian, Polish, and Czech) 

composers painted by Ilya Repin in 1871-72 at the request of 

a Moscow businessman.

Ilya Repin, Portrait of the Composer Modest 

Petrovich Mussorgsky 1881.

Ilya Repin, Portrait of Tsar Nikolai II 1895.

Ilya Repin, Ceremonial Sitting of the State Council on 7 May 1901 

Marking the Centenary of its Foundation 1903.

A colossal painting on which Ilya Repin and his assistants worked for three 

years. The genre is a collective portrait with 81 figures. The size of the 

painting is 400 x 877 cm.

Ilya Repin, Seeing off the Recruit 1870.

Ilya Repin, Portrait of An Archdeacon 1877.

Ilya Repin, Taking a Rest (Portrait of 

Repin's Wife) 1882.

Ilya Repin, Raising of Jairus' Daughter 1871.

Ilya Repin, Gypsy Camp.

Ilya Repin, The Stone Guest. Don Juan 

and Dona Ana 1885.

Ilya Repin & Ivan Aivazovsky, Pushkin's Farewell 

to the Sea 1887.

The picture was painted in collaboration with Ivan 

Aivazovsky. The seascape was painted by Aivazovsky, 

and the figure of the poet by Repin. This is due to 

the fact that Aivazovsky was limited in painting portraits.

Ilya Repin, Horse 1874.