Pendant ce temps, chez Ilya Repin
La vie entière1900–1930 · Résidence
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 février 1907 – 29 septembre 1930 · Adhésion
Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts
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.
1916
“Far and Near”: a book with Chukovsky’s help
In 1916 Repin worked on his book of reminiscences, “Far and Near”, with the assistance of Korney Chukovsky.
1917
Finland breaks away: Penaty ends up abroad
Repin welcomed the February Revolution, but after October he was appalled by the violence and terror the Bolsheviks unleashed. Finland, and with it Penaty, declared independence, the border was closed, and he refused to return to Russia — he remained in forced emigration for the rest of his life.
