#ilya repin

“Садко в Подводном царстве / Sadko in the Underwater Reign” [1876] de Ilya Efimovich Repin (Илья́ Ефи́мович Ре́пин)

Anton Rubinstein by Ilya Repin, 1887.

“On a Turf Bench” by Ilya Repin (1876).

Портрет мецената Ольги Сергеевны Александровой-Хайнц, 1890, Илья Репин 
Portrait of the philanthropist Olga Sergeyevna Aleksandrova-Heinz, 1890, Ilya Repin

Илья Ефимович Репин – Не ждали1884-1888 
Ilya Efimovich Repin - Did not expect1884-1888

Иван Грозный и его сын Иван 16 ноября 1581 года, 1885, Илья Репин 

Ivan the Terrible and his son Ivan November 16, 1581, 1885, Ilya Repin

Илья Репин - Царевна Софья Алексеевна через год после заключения ее в Новодевичьем монастыре, во время казни стрельцов и пытки всей ее прислуги в 1698 году 
Ilya Repin - Princess Sofya Alekseevna a year after her imprisonment in the Novodevichy Convent, during the execution of the archers and torture of all her servants in 1698 

Илья Ефимович Репин – Рождество Христово. 1890 
Ilya Efimovich Repin - Nativity of Christ. 1890

“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?… The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If…if…We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation….”
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago
[What a Freedom, 1903 - Ilya Repin] 

• “I was born at Kislovodsk on 11th December, 1918. My father had studied philological subjects at Moscow University, but did not complete his studies, as he enlisted as a volunteer when war broke out in 1914. He became an artillery officer on the German front, fought throughout the war and died in the summer of 1918, six months before I was born. I was brought up by my mother, who worked as a shorthand-typist, in the town of Rostov on the Don, where I spent the whole of my childhood and youth, leaving the grammar school there in 1936. Even as a child, without any prompting from others, I wanted to be a writer…” More: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1970/solzhenitsyn/biographical/ 

• Ilya Efimovich Repin was born in the town of Chuguev near Kharkov in the heart of the historical region called Sloboda Ukraine. His parents were Russian military settlers. In 1866, after apprenticeship with a local icon painter named Bunakov and preliminary study of portrait painting, he went to Saint Petersburg and was shortly admitted to the Imperial Academy of Arts as a student. More: https://www.ilyarepin.org/biography.html 

just-art5:

Ilya Repin - What freedom!1903

Ilya Repin. Alexander III receiving rural district elders in the yard of Petrovsky Palace in Moscow.
1885-1886. State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.

Ilya Repin. Apples And Leaves.
1879. State Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg.

Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks to Sultan Mehmed IV of the Ottoman Empire (1880-91) - Ilya Repin

Иван Грозный и сын его Иван 16 ноября 1581 (Ivan the Terrible and His Son on November 16th, 1581) by Ilya Repin, 1885. Featured in Rino Stefano Tagliafierro’s Beauty. |x|

trollception:

Hopak dance, unfinished painting by Ilya Repin.

Ілля Рєпін, Портрет С.М.Драгомировa. 1889

Илья Репин. Портрет М.И. Лахтиной (Арцыбушевой).1880