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Far away, close – Ilya Repin – ABC – 2026 – ISBN 978-5-389-33531-8

Far away, close
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"Favored, celebrated, received with such great honor that even my conscience worries about the undeservedness of this honor, I am publishing a book of my penned writings... I offer reminiscences of the most interesting moments of my life. We don't appreciate them... we're even ashamed and keep silent about them. I'm sketching them out..."

Ilya Efimovich Repin possessed an extraordinary literary gift. "Distant, Close" is a book of memoirs about his life, colleagues, and contemporaries, compiled and prepared for publication in 1915, but first published after the author's death in 1937. It has gone through more than a dozen editions and has been translated into many foreign languages.

"This is a miracle! This is how one should write... And what happiness for all those for whom these 'Notes' of yours, a profound page from Russian history, will forever remain," wrote critic Vladimir Stasov upon the first publication of Repin's article about Kramskoy in 1892. Written in an unusually vivid, expressive, flexible, and lively language, the artist's memoirs, even now, more than a century later, invariably earn rave reviews from readers.
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