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ILYA YEFIMOVICH REPIN (August 5 (July 24), 1844 – September 29, 1930), born in Chuguev in Kharkov province (now Ukraine) in 1844. Died in Kuokkala, Finland (now Repino, Leningrad region) in 1930.
Repin studied under I.N. Kramskoy in St. Petersburg, at the Graphic Art School of the Society for the Promotion of the Arts, and later at the Academy of Arts. In 1873 – 1876, as a pensioner of the Academy, he traveled across Italy and France. In 1878, he joined the Association of Peredvizhniks, and became one of the leaders of this movement. The art critic A. Efros wrote, 'His name is the first that comes to mind of all the Russian artists.'
Repin was first and foremost a master of portrait, genre and historical painting, but in many of his paintings, landscape is also present as a background. Open-air painting that Repin came to know in France had a strong influence on him. At the end of the 1890s, he created a number of open-air portraits. Repin was not only a great painter, but also a remarkable teacher. He taught at the Academy of Arts during 1894 – 1907, and at the studio school of M.K. Tenisheva. V.A. Serov and B.M. Kustodiev were among his pupils. Repin spent the last 30 years of his life at his country estate 'Penaty' in Kuokkala on the coast of the Gulf of Finland. Due to the change in Russian borders after the revolution, Repin found himself living in emigration. At the end of his life, the artist wrote his memoirs Far and Near.
Among his best known work are historical paintings ('Ivan the Terrible and his Son Ivan' and 'Dnieper Cossacks Write a Letter to the Turkish Sultan') and pictures demonstrating the moral and physical strength of the Russian people ('Barge Haulers on the Volga' and 'A Religious Procession in the Kursk Province'). Repin's portraits of his contemporaries (Modest Moussorgsky and Pavel Tretyakov) have psychological depth and strong social undertones.

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Denomination: 2 Rubles Year: 1994 Material: Silver Description: Jubilee coin 'The 150th anniversary of the birth of I.Y. Repin'. Obverse: Two-headed eagle (designed by I. Bilibin), the letters under it indicate the metal sign, the fineness, the mint trademark and the fine metal content. The inscriptions along the rim: at the top – 'ДВА РУБЛЯ 1994 г.' (TWO RUBLES 1994), at the bottom – 'БАНК РОССИИ' (BANK OF RUSSIA). Reverse: A portrait of Ilya Repin holding a brush in his right hand and a palette with brushes in his left hand, to the right – the painter's facsimile signature, below – the dates in two lines '1844 – 1930'. The inscription to the left along the rim: 'РУССКИЙ ХУДОЖНИК' (A RUSSIAN PAINTER). 500 standard silver. Diameter – 33 mm, weight – 7.78 g. Edge – incised. Put in circulation since 26.07.1994. Artist: I.I. Kopytkin, sculptors: I.I. Kopytkin, A.A. Kolodkin. Mintage: 250 000. The coin was struck at the Moscow Mint (МMД). Country or town: Russian Federation

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