# Ilya Repin

> He painted the most searing images of 19th-century Russian life—barge haulers straining against ropes, a tsar murdering his son in rage—and then outlived the empire itself, marooned by borders in a Finnish dacha he could never leave.

*Russian-empire painter of Ukrainian birth (1844-1930)*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/ilya-repin

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Artist
- **Category:** Artists
- **Born:** 1844-07-24
- **Died:** 1930-09-29
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Repin was born in Chuguev in 1844, son of a former cavalry soldier turned horse trader, and started painting icons at sixteen. He failed his first try at the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg but went anyway in 1863, audited classes, and won prizes by 1869. A tour along the Volga in 1872 yielded drawings that earned him a commission from Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich for Barge Haulers on the Volga, the canvas that made his name. He spent two years in Paris and Normandy absorbing Impressionist technique, then returned to produce Religious Procession in Kursk Province and a gallery of portraits—Glinka, Mussorgsky, Tretyakov, and his close friend Leo Tolstoy. In 1885 his Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan caused such scandal it was pulled from exhibition, but commissions kept coming. He built a country house called The Penates in Kuokkala, Finland, in 1898, quit the Academy in 1905 after the repression of street protests, and welcomed the February Revolution before recoiling at Bolshevik terror. When Finland declared independence in 1917, the new border trapped him; he never returned to Russia, not even for his own 1925 retrospective in Leningrad. He

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 66.8 / 100
- **Momentum:** 4.3 / 100  (trend: STABLE)
- **Historical depth:** 25.6 / 100
- **Now attention:** 12.4 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 65.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 65.0 / 100
- **Category rank:** #79

## Platforms
- **WEBSITE**: http://ilya-repin.ru/

## Topics
#Artists, #Artist, #Painting, #Sculpture, #DJ, #19th Century

## Sources
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- [Ilja Riepin](https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilja_Riepin)
- [Репин, Илья Ефимович](https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%B5%D0%BF%D0%B8%D0%BD%2C_%D0%98%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%8F_%D0%95%D1%84%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87)
- [イリヤ・レーピン](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A4%E3%83%AA%E3%83%A4%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AC%E3%83%BC%E3%83%94%E3%83%B3)
- [Ilia Répine](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilia_R%C3%A9pine)
- [Il'ja Efimovič Repin](https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Il'ja_Efimovi%C4%8D_Repin)
- [Ilia Repin](https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilia_Repin)
- [Ilja Repin](https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilja_Repin)
- [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilya_Repin)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q172911)
- [Pantheon 2.0](https://pantheon.world/profile/person/Ilya%20Repin)
- [Ilya Repin](https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilya_Repin)
- [Илья Репин](https://bxr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%98%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%8F_%D0%A0%D0%B5%D0%BF%D0%B8%D0%BD)
- [Ilià Repin](https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ili%C3%A0_Repin)
- [Репин Илья](https://ce.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%B5%D0%BF%D0%B8%D0%BD_%D0%98%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%8F)
- [Ilja Repin](https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilja_Repin)
- [Репин Илья Ефимович](https://cv.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%B5%D0%BF%D0%B8%D0%BD_%D0%98%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%8F_%D0%95%D1%84%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87)
- [Ilja Repin](https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilja_Repin)
- [Ilja Jefimowitsch Repin](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilja_Jefimowitsch_Repin)
- [Ιλιά Ρέπιν](https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%99%CE%BB%CE%B9%CE%AC_%CE%A1%CE%AD%CF%80%CE%B9%CE%BD)
- [Ilja Jefimoviĉ Repin](https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilja_Jefimovi%C4%89_Repin)
- [Iliá Repin](https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ili%C3%A1_Repin)
- [Ilja Repin](https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilja_Repin)
- [Ilia Repin](https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilia_Repin)
- [Wikiquote](https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Il'ja_Efimovi%C4%8D_Repin)
- [Wikiquote](https://pl.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ilja_Riepin)
- [Wikiquote](https://ru.wikiquote.org/wiki/%D0%98%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%8F_%D0%95%D1%84%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87_%D0%A0%D0%B5%D0%BF%D0%B8%D0%BD)
- [Wikiquote](https://sr.wikiquote.org/wiki/%D0%98%D1%99%D0%B0_%D0%A0%D1%98%D0%B5%D0%BF%D0%B8%D0%BD)
- [Wikiquote](https://uk.wikiquote.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D1%94%D0%BF%D1%96%D0%BD_%D0%86%D0%BB%D0%BB%D1%8F_%D0%AE%D1%85%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87)
- [MusicBrainz](https://musicbrainz.org/artist/7ba03e68-0bbe-4227-830b-388c36c5653a)

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