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Ilya Yefimovich Repin: Zaporozhian Cossacks

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Zaporozhye Cossacks

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In Ilya Yefimovich Repin
…November 16, 1581 (1885), and Zaporozhye Cossacks (1880–91), the latter perhaps his best-known work. He also did vigorous portraits of his great Russian contemporaries, such as Leo Tolstoy, Mikhail Glinka, and Modest Mussorgsky.
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