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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: 20 Roubles Year: 2009 Material: Silver Description: Commemorative coin 'Ilya Repin'. Obverse: On the right there is fragments of Russian painter's painting Ilya Repin "Autumn Bouquet" on the top left – the relief of the State Coat of Arms of the Republic of Belarus and inscriptions around it: "РЭСПУБЛIКА БЕЛАРУСЬ" (REPUBLIC OF BELARUS), beneath: 20 РУБЛЁЎ (TWENTY ROUBLES), fine silver alloy standard and and corporate (commercial) mark of Mint of Poland. Reverse: On the left – a relief image of a self-portrait of Ilya Repin, beneath – the inscription "I. РЭПІН" (I. REPIN) and years of painter's life 1844 – 1930; on the right – the image of the Museum–Estate of Ilya Repin in Zdravnevo (Belarus, Vitebsk region), beneath – the image of palette and brushes. 925 standard silver. The coin is rectangular, dimensions: 40.00 x 28.00 mm, weight – 28.28 g., edge plain. Mintage: 15 000. The coin put in circulation in 15.07.2009, minted by The Mint of Poland PLC., Warsaw, Poland. Designer – O.Novosiolova (Belarus). FMM hasn't got this coin yet. Country or town: Republic of Belarus

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