Barge Haulers on the Volga
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Barge Haulers on the Volga or Burlaki is an 1870–1873 oil-on-canvas painting by Russian realist artist Ilya Repin. It depicts 11 men hauling a barge along the banks of the Volga River. They are at the
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1900s photograph of burlaks on the Volga River
Burlak women, 1900s
Barge Haulers Crossing a Ford, Ilya Repin, oil on canvas, 1872. 62 × 97 cm. The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
Peredvizhniki
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Peredvizhniki, often called The Wanderers or The Itinerants in English, were a group of Russian realist artists who formed an artists' cooperative in protest of academic restrictions; it evolved into
Barge Haulers on the Volga
…throughout Europe as a landmark of Russian realist painting. Barge Haulers on the Volga has been described as "perhaps the most famous painting of the Peredvizhniki movement [for]....its unflinching portrayal of backbreaking labor". Repin was accepted into the Imperial Academy of Art in St. Petersburg in 1863. The…
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Ivan Shishkin and Konstantin Savitsky, Morning in a Pine Forest, 1878
Konstantin Savitsky, Repairing the Railroad, 1874