Barge Haulers on the Volga or Burlaki is an 1870–1873 oil-on-canvas painting by artist Ilya Repin. It depicts 11 men physically dragging a barge on the banks of the Volga River. They are at the point of collapse from exhaustion, oppressed by heavy, hot weather.
1900s photograph of burlaks on the Volga River
Barge Haulers Crossing a Ford, Ilya Repin, oil on canvas, 1872. 62 × 97 cm. The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
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 the Society for Travelling Art Exhibitions in 1870.
Newcomer at School by Emily Shanks
Ivan Shishkin and Konstantin Savitsky, Morning in a Pine Forest, 1878
Konstantin Savitsky, Repairing the Railroad, 1874