Диоген и мальчик

1863–1871 · Education

Imperial Academy of Arts

1863–1871

Kramskoi — mentor — and the artists’ artel

Repin regarded Ivan Kramskoi as his direct mentor: he was at home in the artists’ artel Kramskoi founded, showed him his student sketches and listened to his advice. After Kramskoi’s death he wrote recollections in which he called him his teacher.

1863–1871

Friends at the Academy: Vasily Polenov and Mark Antokolsky

During eight years at the Academy Repin made many friends: at Vasily Polenov’s home he was always warmly received, and with the sculptor Mark Antokolsky, who had come from Vilna, he grew close in the way, Antokolsky later wrote, that only lonely people in a strange land can.

1865

Serebryanaya medal Akademii

За эскиз «Ангел смерти избивает всех перворождённых египтян».

1869

Znakomstvo s Vladimirom Stasovym

Художественный критик на многие годы вошёл в «ближний круг» Репина.