Dalekoe blizkoe - Repin Il'ia Efimovich

The famous Russian painter, master of portrait, historical and everyday paintings Ilya Efimovich Repin (1844-1930) was also a talented memoirist. His autobiographical book " The Far Closer" is a picture of an entire era in the history of Russia. This edition includes the artist's memoirs about his childhood, his years at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, his teacher and friend I.N. Kramsky, and his work on the famous painting Burlaki on the Volga. This, according to the author, sketches about life, about its most interesting minutes, which we "do not appreciate, release, even hush up..." K. I. Chukovsky wrote about Repin: "In his book excellent language - plastic, fresh, expressive and original to audacity language, not always submissive to dead grammatical rules, but always lively, picturesque." He was echoed by the well-known music and art critic V.V. Stasov: "It is a miracle what is!.. Here's how to write..."