Сестра Устя. (?)

autumn 1863

Otpravilsya v Peterburg postupat v Akademiyu

Рассказы острогожцев о Крамском подтолкнули к переменам: собрав заработанное за лето, девятнадцатилетний Репин уехал в Петербург. С первого раза не приняли — «не владеет тушёвкой»; поступил после вечерней рисовальной школы.

1863–1864

Patron Fyodor Pryanishnikov pays for his right to study

Having passed the Academy’s examination, Repin faced a new obstacle: an auditor had to pay 25 rubles for the right to attend classes. The sum was paid by the patron he turned to for help, Fyodor Pryanishnikov, head of the postal department; Repin himself was living at the time in an attic room for five and a half rubles, in strict economy.

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».