With all the breadth of his artistic interests Repin was still primarily a portrait painter. A profound connoisseur of people and a psychologist, he knew how to see in his

The son and daughter of the artist are depicted in the high waves of the surf. As if past, not yet crucified souls – the personification of youth – are

The portrait of Surikov by Repin is an undoubted success of the artist. The master of psychological portrait perfectly conveys the character, the temperament of his colleague. Repinsky Surikov is

Once in the summer of 1878, in Abramtsevo, a conversation about Zaporozhian antiquity began among friends. The historian N. I. Kostomarov read a letter written in the 17th century by

This grandiose in scale and magnificent in execution, the picture was commissioned by the king. The reason for the order was the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the State

In order to write “Burlakov on the Volga”, Repin took several years of hard work. He made several trips to the Volga, made friends with the future heroes of his

In 1883, I. E. Repin and his friend, art and music critic Vladimir Vasilyevich Stasov, went to Paris and then to Dresden. There in the room of the Dresden Hotel

The acquaintance of I. E. Repin and P. M. Tretyakov belongs to the very beginning of the 1870s. Evidence of their sincere, deeply respectful and friendly relations is a collection