The far close. Repin I.E.

“Closed, glorified, accepted with such a great honor that even conscience is worried about the undeservedness of all this honor, I am publishing a book of my scriptures with a pen... I offer a memory of the most interesting minutes of my life. We do not appreciate them... We are even ashamed and silent. I am throwing excursions about them... "

Ilya Efimovich Repin possessed an outstanding literary gift. The “distant close” is a book of memoirs about life, colleagues and contemporaries, compiled and prepared for printing in 1915, but published for the first time after the author’s death in 1937, withstood more than a dozen reprints and was translated into many foreign languages.

“This is a miracle what is!.. Here's how to write... And what a blessing for everyone for whom your notes will forever remain, a deep page from Russian history, ”said critic Vladimir Stasov to the first publication of Repin's article on Kramskoy in 1892. Written by the artist’s memoirs of the artist’s memoirs of the artist’s surprisingly bright, expressive, plastic and living language, and now, more than a century later, the enthusiastic reviews of readers invariably deserve.