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Ilya Repin

1844 - 1930

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Ilya Yefimovich Repin (5 August [O.S. 24 July] 1844 – 29 September 1930) was a Ukrainian-born Russian painter. He became one of the most renowned artists in Russia in the 19th century. His major works include Barge Haulers on the Volga (1873), Religious Procession in Kursk Province (1880–1883), Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan (1885), and Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks (1880–1891). He is also known for the revealing portraits he made of the leading Russian literary and artistic figures of his time, including Mikhail Glinka, Modest Mussorgsky, Pavel Tretyakov, and especially Leo Tolstoy, with whom he had a long friendship. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ilya Repin is the 70th most popular painter (up from 74th in 2019), the 16th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 14th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Ukrainian Painter.

Ilya Repin is most famous for his painting "Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan on November 16, 1581."

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Ilya Repin ranks 70 out of 2,023. Before him are Piero della Francesca, J. M. W. Turner, Andrea Mantegna, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Théodore Géricault, and Francisco de Zurbarán. After him are Frans Hals, Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Henri Rousseau, Pietro Perugino, Rogier van der Weyden, and Alfred Sisley.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1844, Ilya Repin ranks 9. Before him are Sarah Bernhardt, Anatole France, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Paul Verlaine, Bernadette Soubirous, and Mehmed V. After him are Henri Rousseau, Ludwig Boltzmann, Menelik II, Umberto I of Italy, Alexandra of Denmark, and Klas Pontus Arnoldson. Among people deceased in 1930, Ilya Repin ranks 4. Before him are Arthur Conan Doyle, D. H. Lawrence, and Fridtjof Nansen. After him are Alfred Wegener, Mary Harris Jones, Zewditu, Allvar Gullstrand, Fritz Pregl, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Christiaan Eijkman, and William Howard Taft.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Ilya Repin ranks 16 out of 1,365. Before him are Stefania Turkewich (1898), Stepan Bandera (1909), Volodymyr Zelensky (1978), Kazimir Malevich (1879), Bohdan Khmelnytsky (1595), and Mikhail Bulgakov (1891). After him are Taras Shevchenko (1814), Hafsa Sultan (1479), Joseph Conrad (1857), Helena Blavatsky (1831), Svetlana Alexievich (1948), and Stanisław Lem (1921).

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Among PAINTERS In Ukraine

Among painters born in Ukraine, Ilya Repin ranks 2. Before him are Kazimir Malevich (1879). After him are Sonia Delaunay (1885), Marie Bashkirtseff (1858), Arkhip Kuindzhi (1842), Henryk Siemiradzki (1843), Maria Prymachenko (1908), Zinaida Serebriakova (1884), Leonid Pasternak (1862), Maurycy Gottlieb (1856), Cassandre (1901), and Anna Bilińska (1854).

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