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ILJA JEFIMOVICH See also: Russian painter, was See also: born in 1844 at Tschuguev in the department of Charkov, the son of parents in straitened circumstances
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He learned the rudiments of See also: art under a painter of See also: saints named Bunakov, for three years gaining his living at this humble craft
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In 1863 he obtained a studentship at the See also: Academy of See also: Fine Arts of St See also: Petersburg, where he remained for six years, winning the gold medal and a travelling scholarship which enabled him to visit See also: France and See also: Italy
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He returned to See also: Russia after a See also: short See also: absence, and devoted himself exclusively to subjects having strong See also: national characteristics
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In 1894 he became professor of See also: historical See also: painting at the St Petersburg Academy
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See also: Repin's paintings are powerfully See also: drawn, with not a little See also: imagination and with strong dramatic force and characterization
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A brilliant colourist, and a portrait-painter of the first See also: rank, he also became known as a sculptor and etcher of ability
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His chief pictures are " Procession in the See also: Government of See also: Kiev," " Home-coming," " The Arrest," " See also: Ivan the Terrible's See also: murder of his Son," and, best known of all, " The Reply of the Cossacks to Sultan Mahmoud IV." The portraits of the Baroness V
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I. t)lskiil, of Anton Rubinstein and of Count See also: Leo Tolstoy are among his best achievements in this class
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The Tretiakov gallery at Moscow contains a very large collection of his See also: work
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See " Professor Repin," by See also: Prince Bojidar Karageorgevich, in the See also: Magazine of Art, See also: xxiii. p
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783 (1899) ; " Russian Art," a paper by E
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See also: Brayley Hodgetts in the Proceedings of the Anglo-Russian See also: Literary Society (5th of May 1896) ; " Ilja Jefimovich Repin," by See also: Julius See also: Norden, in Velhagen and Klasing's Monatshefte, xx. p. i (1905); also R
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Muther, See also: History of See also: Modern Painting (ed
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