
Ilya RepinUkrainian, 1844–1930May one see it?
Moscow, Russia
The owner is known. Whether it is on view today, the museum does not say, and we were not trained to guess.
1900–1930 · Residence
Repino
1900–1930
Wednesdays at Penaty: Chaliapin, Gorky, Mayakovsky
The estate was eccentric: a studio under a pyramidal lantern roof, a landscape garden with a “Pushkin alley”, a multicoloured Egyptian-style music kiosk and a telescope looking over the Gulf of Finland. Repin gave vegetarian breakfasts, a habit taken from Tolstoy, and lavish Wednesday receptions attended by Chaliapin, Gorky, Glazunov, Kuprin, Polenov, Brodsky, Fechin, Mayakovsky, Rozanov and Bekhterev.
5 February 1907 – 29 September 1930 · Membership
Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts
1911
His daughter Nadezhda falls ill after a typhus epidemic
Nadezhda Ilyinichna, who had finished courses for medical assistants and worked in zemstvo hospitals, began to suffer from a mental illness after a trip to a typhus epidemic zone in 1911; in Kuokkala, where she lived with her father, she hardly ever left her room.
1914
Illness and death of Natalia Nordman in Switzerland
With the outbreak of the First World War Repin’s wife fell ill with tuberculosis and went to Locarno for treatment; she refused help from her family and died in Switzerland in 1914.