Ilya Repin - The Annual Meeting in Memory of the French Communards at the pere-Lachaise Cemetary in Paris (1883)
Barge Haulers on the Volga - Ilya Repin (1870 - 1873)
“Take note of their faces and then look at the steamship speeding in the distance, and you will understand that the task of art is great and sacred, that its role consists not of the tickle of aesthetic ability, that it can awaken the conscience, awaken thought and feeling.” - Mikhailovsky