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[[File:Repin Self Portrait 1878.jpg|thumb|Self Portrait, 1878.]]

[[File:Repin Self Portrait 1878.jpg|thumb|Self Portrait, 1878.]]

'''Ilya Yefimovich Repin''' (1844 – 1930) was a Russian [[Realism|Realistic]] [[painter]] and [[sculptor]]. He received his first lessons in art in 1858; In 1863 in St. Petersburg he enrolled in the School of Drawing attached to the Society for the Encouragement of the Arts and later in the Academy of Arts. His graduation work, ''The Resurrection of Jairus' Daughter'', won a Gold Medal. He taught at the St. Petersburg Academy (1894-1907) and was an influential member of the Wanderers. Repin occupies a position alongside Dostoevsky and Tolstoy, Mussorgsky and Rimsky-Korsakov. He is considered Russia's foremost national artist. [http://tars.rollins.edu/Foreign_Lang/Russian/frame3.html]  

'''Ilya Yefimovich Repin''' (1844 – 1930) was a Russian [[Realism|Realistic]] [[painter]] and [[sculptor]]. He received his first lessons in art in 1858; In 1863 in St. Petersburg he enrolled in the School of Drawing attached to the Society for the Encouragement of the Arts and later in the Academy of Arts. His graduation work, ''The Resurrection of Jairus' Daughter'', won a Gold Medal. He taught at the St. Petersburg Academy (1894-1907) and was an influential member of the Wanderers. Repin occupies a position alongside [[Fyodor Dostoevsky|Dostoevsky]] and [[Leo Tolstoy|Tolstoy]], [[Mussorgsky]] and [[Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov|Rimsky-Korsakov]]. He is considered Russia's foremost national artist. [http://tars.rollins.edu/Foreign_Lang/Russian/frame3.html]  

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