Farly close. Repin I. E.

Memoirs of the “distant close”, written by the October Revolution Repin in emigration in Finland and first published after the death of the author, in 1937, is an excellent literary work that distinguishes the amazing liveliness of the style, brightness and almost picturesque expressiveness and drama. As alive, the reader appears to the reader legendary figures of Russian literature and art of the last decades of the XIX and early twentieth centuries - Kuindzhi and Tolstoy, Kramskoy, Vasiliev and Ge. The colorful and touching chapters dedicated to the history of the creation of the most famous works of Repin and the emotional “letters about art” are of separate interest.