rypin , kramsky, yaroshenko, mykola g., and many, many others, even the same ivan ivazovsky, who wasn, but he chose, for example, when he painted people in the entourage of certain of his paintings, he very often painted ukrainians, like staff, because as the heroes of his paintings, that is, again in distinctly ukrainian outfits, when he painted ukrainian landscapes, he emphasized it with ukrainian markers, and these were windmills, these were topol. these were ukrainian adobe huts, these were dnipro, that is, essentially these artists, they showed that their work is not connected with the abstract russian empire, but with ukraine, and this was a principled position, when you talk about the nomads, this is a very interesting phenomenon, because what is the essence of nomadism, only that that they chose democratic themes, in fact, even the very term traveling exhibitions, peredvizhnychestvo, meant that the artists chose it... to build a system of distribution of their creativity so that their exhibitions were not confined only to st. petersburg and moscow, as two centers, as it were

athenaeum, is the largest museum there, finally the one there. the workers recognized ilya repin or rypin , it should be said, as a ukrainian artist, because in 2021 they held a joint exhibition with russian museums where his paintings were, and there he appeared as a russian artist, but for two years our, our activist, in particular the journalist anna lodigina, proved to them that no, no, he is ukrainian, he was born in ukraine, and here... two years later, the museum officials finally admitted that it was true. let's listen to anna ledygina, she wrote the material of her time on ukrainian pravda culture. and how did she act, why did everything take so long? let's listen to it. my request transformed into a conversation and correspondence, during which we discussed the ethnicity of the artist. in one of the letters, he sent a link to his material, which indicated that repin's parents were russians born in the moscow region. i turned to olga shevchenko, the deputy director for scientific work of the repin museum in chuguyev, to send copies of the metric books of the artist's family, as p

control that region, thus of these contingents were formed from so-called military settlements, and rypin the identity of a military villager, a military one, well, his memories begin there, that i am there, i have, well, in short, he was a ukrainian military villager, he had such an identity , and he actually called, as russians often say, that... in his memoirs, he calls the people who lived in nearby villages khokhlas, and that supposedly means that he did not have a ukrainian identity, in fact, he literally in the next paragraph calls merchants who came from the north with katsaps, which means that he did not even have a great rodian identity, he had a cossack identity, or rather the identity of military settlers, and therefore the military state, which was different from the peasant state, it must be very clearly understood that often peasants from .. ordinary people who never had a relationship with the army, they were perceived by people, for a long time military people, when this matter came from generation to generation, as if people of a slightly different identity, then still s

finally, the workers there recognized ilya repin or rypin, as he should be called, as a ukrainian artistbecause in 2021 they held a joint exhibition with russian museums where his paintings were and he appeared there as a russian artist, but for two years our to our activists, including journalist anna lodigina, she proved to them that no, no, he is ukrainian, born in ukraine. and two years later, the museum staff finally recognized it as such yes. let's listen to anna ledygina, she wrote the material of her time on the ukrainian truth, culture, and how she acted. why is everything taking so long? let's listen to her. my request transformed into a conversation and correspondence during which we discussed the artist's stymo-ethnicity. in one of the letters , he sent a link to his material, which indicated that repin's parents were russians born in the moscow region. i asked olga shevchenko, deputy director of research at the repin museum in chuguyev, to send copies of metric books. of the artist's family, as proof that his roots are ukrainian, not russian. well, let me remind you that ear

judging from yes, it was before the war, when finland lost certain territories, but yes, that is, rypin chose to live in a state that had no relation to... in fact, he was not obliged to the soviet union, he although he was starving, cold, he had problems with his children, he had, well, he really lived a difficult life, but he chose to live this life, it is obvious that he was promised by karney chukovsky and others, perhaps, well, i am vernytsky, i will not blame him in this sense, of course, that he will live in luxury, well, in the sense that definitely not cold, not hungry, one of ripen's last self-portraits in a hat, that is , he obviously worked in uh... conditions where the temperature was several degrees, that is, and he, and this is an old, old man in his 80s, his fingers were his right hands are already twisted, he could no longer work, he worked with his left by hand, and he worked on a painting of a hopak, not for sale, of course, it was a will, but a man with a hammer, which for me is like a ripen, because of his love, because of his admiration for ukrainianness, for ukrai