Ilya Repin, ctd

Here's my final set of paintings by this great Russian artist. Each one is a treasure, and it's fun to speculate about the story being told in each painting.

 Portrait of S.I. Lyubitskaya (1877)

 Returning Home (1876-77)

 Sadko in the Underwater Kingdom (1876)

 Seeing off a Recruit (1879)

Self-Portrait (1894)

 Soldier's Tale (1877)

 Tolstoy Ploughing (1887)

 Tsar Ivan Grozny Killing his Son on 15 November 1581 (1873)

[Ivan Grozny = Ivan the Terrible] [more about this painting]

Unexpected Return (1884)

 Barge Haulers on the Volga (1873)

[more about this painting] [still more]

What Freedom! (1903)