Memories of the famous Russian artist I.E. Repin about his childhood, youth, and arrival in St. Petersburg. Part of the memoirs consists of essays about the ...

Few Russian artists enjoyed such fame during their lifetime as Ilya Efimovich Repin. His contemporaries admired him to the point of illusion for his “living”...

In the history of Russia it is difficult to meet an original steel and such an exceptionally original nature, in the words of Repin, a “genius-inventor”, a m...