this year marks the 180th anniversary of the birth of ilya efimovich repin. it is about him that we will talk with tatyana. art history. hello, tatyana vitalievna. hello. here. repping, really such a powerful, well-known figure, and it would seem that everything is simple with him. yes, he is such a lucky guy, a darling of fate, a man who was born into a poor family, made himself, achieved success, became one of the greatest, most famous artists of his time, was already recognized in time and remains so. classics and for us, and for all subsequent generations, still, tell me, please, what do you think, is there some kind of secret in him, some kind of mystery, some kind of intrigue, some kind of, if a dramatic turn, can we include it in order to talk about it? i think that of course, because this is really a very large-scale figure for russian art of the 19th century, only the nineteenth, well so to speak, in the first, third of the twentieth , you can also say, yes, because he lived a very long life for... he was born in 1844 in chuguev near kharkov, and die