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Ilya Repin (Ukrainian, 1844–1930)
The Self-Immolation of Gogol or Gogol burning the manuscript of the second part of "Dead Souls"
1909
Oil on canvas (81 x 134,5 cm)
Tretyakov Gallery

The painting was executed for the anniversary of the birth of Nikolai Gogol in March 1909. It depicts the tragic burning of the second volume of Dead Souls.

“Gogol is the brightest and hottest candle that our national conscience has lit before God… A downtrodden and disenfranchised people believe only in God. In the ecstasy of their faith, they either act like madmen or instigate their own immolation. This is how the great Gogol, too, burned in atonement for all sin. And he burned his work when he became convinced of the weak effect it would have on this life of sin.”.

(Ilya Repin. “Gogol”. 1909).

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Ilya Repin (Ukrainian, 1844–1930)
Sadko or Sadko in the Underwater Kingdom
1876
Oil on canvas (322,5 x 230 cm)
Russian Museum, St. Petersburg

The subject of Sadko is from a bylina—an oral epic poem—recorded in north-western Russia. The merchant and musician Sadko has been brought to the realm of the Sea Tsar to give a performance. After the Sea Tsar has danced to his music—causing a devastating storm in the process—Sadko is asked to choose one of the tsar's mermaid daughters to take as his wife. Following the advice of a saint, Sadko refuses three times three hundred daughters before accepting the last one, Chernavushka. Repin painted Sadko to the right, overlooking a procession of half-human, half-aquatic women who pass by; the rejected mermaids at the front look disappointed. Chernavushka appears behind everybody else and glances toward the man.

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Ilya Repin (Ukrainian, 1844-1930)
A Shy Peasant
1877
Oil on canvas (65 x 54 cm)
Nizhny Novgorod State Art Museum

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