Petersburg Art Academy to study painting but had to enter Ivan Kramskoi preparatory school first. Soon after the surveying course was cancelled, his father helped Repin to become an apprentice with Ivan Bunakov, a local icon painter, where he restored old icons and painted portraits of local notables through commissions. He entered military school to study surveying. ![]() His father traded horses and his grandmother ran an inn. Repin was born in Chuguyev, in Kharkov Governorate, Russian Empire into a family of Russian "military settlers". His major works include Barge Haulers on the Volga, Religious Procession in Kursk Province and Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks. He played a major role in bringing Russian art into the mainstream of European culture. ![]() ![]() He was one of the most renowned Russian artists of the 19th century, when his position in the world of art was comparable to that of Leo Tolstoy in literature. Today in history Ilya Repin was born 178 years ago today Ilya Yefimovich Repin was a Ukrainian-born Russian realist painter.
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