Ilya Repin said in a letter to Pavel Tretyakov, which began work on a portrait of Ivan Turgenev for a series of images of Russian writers.

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3 april 1874 year

Ilya Repin said in a letter to Pavel Tretyakov, which began work on a portrait of Ivan Turgenev for a series of images of Russian writers.

1874 y.

Ilya Repin in a letter to Pavel Tretyakov said that started to work on a portrait of Ivan Turgenev.Repin wrote this portrait for a series of images of Russian writers, conceived this Moscow merchant and patron.Repin`s name became known after the appearance of the Volga Boatmen "in 1873.At the beginning of Repin lived in Paris for a scholarship the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts.Portrait of the author of Fathers and Sons "at the beginning and like the artist and model, but was rejected by the writer`s girlfriend, the French singer Pauline Viardot.

Viardot has demanded a fresh start on a new canvas.A final version has not come to taste has no Turgenev or Repin, nor Tretyakov, and just another businessman Savva Mamontov, agreed to buy it to give Rumyantsev Museum, where the picture later migrated to the Tretyakov Gallery.

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Ilya Repin said in a letter to Pavel Tretyakov, which began work on a portrait of Ivan Turgenev for a series of images of Russian writers.

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