Travel Reference
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Considered by most Russians to be the greatest artist the nation has ever produced,
Ilya Repin (1844-1930) was originally a member of the Wanderers, but he outgrew the
movement. He went on to produce key works of Russian realist and populist art. His
masterpiece is
Barge Haulers on the Volga,
an unrivalled portrait of human misery and
enslavement in rural Russia.
Repin spent the last years of his life at his idiosyncratic dacha Penates in a Gulf
of Finland town now named Repino in his honour. Today it's a museum and pos-
sible to visit by taking the bus from outside the Ploshchad Lenina metro station.
