Ilya Repin
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Once an elderly man rose to the turret of a wooden house in Kuokkala - in the first minute the owner, Korney Ivanovich Chukovsky, took him for a messenger, - and extended a note: “Using the courtesy of Ilya Efimovich Repin, who will deliver this note to you, I hasten to inform you ...” . “When you watch dozens and dozens of paintings written by a Repin brush in the Tretyakov Gallery or in the Russian Museum,” Chukovsky writes, “Repin seems to be a giant ... And now he is standing before me ... It’s very simple, even as if shy, as if he does not know that he is - that he is - that he is - Repin. So the friendship and fruitful cooperation of two talented people - the artist Ilya Repin and writer Korney Chukovsky began. One of her wonderful fruits was the biographical book “Ilya Repin”. Her text is penetrated by a warm friendly feeling and full of entertaining details of the everyday life of an outstanding Russian artist, noticed by the tenacious look of a friend, a younger contemporary and a magnificent writer
Author:
Author:Korney Chukovsky
Cover:
Cover:Soft
Category:
- Category:Biographies & Memoirs
Publication language:
Publication Language:Russian
Series:
Series: Azbuka- Classic. Non-Fiction
Age restrictions:
Age restrictions:12+
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-389-16101-6
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