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Ilya Yefimovich Repin (5 August [O.S. 24 July] 1844, Chuhuiv, Russian Empire (now in Ukraine) – September 29, 1930, Kuokkala, Finland) was a leading Russian painter and sculptor of the Peredvizhniki artistic school. An important part of his work is dedicated to his native country, Ukraine. His realistic works often expressed great psychological depth and exposed the tensions within the existing social order. Beginning in the late 1920s, detailed works on him were published in the USSR, where a Repin cult developed about a decade later, and where he was held up as a model "progressive" and "realist" to be imitated by "Socialist Realist" artists in the Soviet Union. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilya_Repin

Pic: Self-portrait (1878).
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Ilya Repin (aka Ilia Efimovich Repin, 1844-1930) - Volga Boatmen (1870-1873).
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Easter Procession in the Region of Kursk, 1880-83.
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Ivan the Terrible and his son Ivan on Friday, November 16, 1581.
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Portrait of the poet Grand Prince Konstantin Konstantinovich Romanov.
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Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks to Sultan Mehmed IV of the Ottoman Empire, 1880-9.
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Sadko in the Underwater Kingdom, 1876.
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St Nicholas of Myra in Lycia 1889.
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You're welcome.

Pic: Ilya Repin - Russian State Council commemorating its 100th anniversary, May 5, 1901.
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A Demonstration on 17 October 1905 (Ilya Repin, 1911)

This work is the basis of the header art of my companion blog, Voices from Russia. The people are celebrating the granting of a Duma, a parliament. The word “duma” in Russian is derived from the word meaning “to think, to ponder, to contemplate”. So, the emphasis is not like “Congress”, which means “an assembly”, nor it is the same as a “parliament”, which is “a place to talk”. The “Duma” is “a place to think things over”. These distinctions are not fine, they go to the very essence of what a people convene a legislature for.

It is one of the primary reasons why Russians do not have the same expectations or criteria for “democracy” as the West does. A great deal has to do with the thought-world of the Russian language, which differs significantly from that found in many Western languages. Do not underestimate this. It is one of the reasons why translation is so damnably difficult. Not only do grammar and idiom differ, but, the very concepts conveyed are often unintelligible in another tongue. I cannot find exact English equivalents for vostorg, sobornost‘, narodny, or dukhovny. Yes, there are English words we can use, but, they do not bring forward the full depth of these words that is immediately apparent to a Russian-speaker. I hope that my efforts along the line of translation convey to you some of the things that are out there. I can assure you that it is not easy. http://01varvara.wordpress.com/2008/02/21/ilya-repin-a-demonstration-on-17-october-1905-1911/
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Ilya Repin - Portrait of Emperor Nicholas II (1895).
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slightly different shot
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Tsar Ivan Grozny After Killing His Son on 15 November 1581 (Ilya Repin, 1873)
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OK, I'm out of Repin.

Posting more Russian masters.

Vasili Surikov - The Taking of the Snow Fortress 1891.
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Dmitri Belyukin - Bright Tranquility.
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One of my favorite paintings ever, very powerful.

Have some Ivan Aivazovsky.
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Makovsky, Konstantin Yegorovich - The Bulgarian martyresses, 1877
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Repin - The Wedding of Tsar St. Nikolai Aleksandrovich and Tsaritsa St. Aleksandra Fyodrovna, 1894
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breathtaking
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Here's a naked chick with wings for folks using a download manager to get all these neat pics.
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Amazing.
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Many thanks for this wonderful thread.
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thanks for posting Anon I was looking for this guys name. I loved it his ocean paints
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>>426099interesting

yeah language has an effect on how we think and what thought we might think. that why learning new ones really open up the mind to new perspectives.
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Wow, bloody brilliant. Nice one.
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thank you
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Awesome stuff.