Biography of the daughters of Repin

Repin “Penates” opens an exhibition “Daughter Repin”, telling about the fate of the three daughters of the great Russian artist - faith, Nadezhda and Tatyana. The exhibition presents the picturesque and graphic works of Ilya Efimovich with the image of her daughters, the picturesque works of Vera Ilyinichna and Nadezhda Ilyinichna, the water portrait of their mother-Vera Alekseevna Shevtsova-Repina, as well as photographs from the collection of the research museum at the Russian Academy of Arts, the branch of which is the Museum-Essays "Penates." The life and fate of the two senior daughters of Repin - faith and hope are closely connected with the Penates: Hope lived in the penalty house of his father from a year, and Vera with Go.

Vera Ilyinichna was considered the favorite of Repin. According to the memoirs of Lyudmila Alekseevna Shevtsova, cousin of the children of Ilya Efimovich, Vera “was an energetic, cheerful, entrepreneurizing girl, she overwhelmed everyone and in the full sense of the word was the soul of the family. She was never bored with her, and Ilya Efimovich himself distinguished faith from all the children for the fact that he himself was pleased to talk with her.

In the house, she could accept anyone and without hesitation occupied the conversation of any eminent guest. ” In the last years of her life, Repina Vera Ilyinichna actively participated in the organization of exhibitions and sales of her father’s works in Finland, Sweden, the Czech Republic and other countries. She lived in Penates until the fall of the year, when, in connection with the Soviet-Finnish war that had begun, she was forced to evacuate into the depths of Finland and did not return to the penalty house anymore.

The exhibition exhibits two picturesque works of Vera Ilyinichna: “Cacti” and “still life”, as well as photographs taken in different periods of her life. Some of them talk about the short artistic career of V. The second daughter of Nadezhda, who was called a “Parisian” in the family, since she was born in Paris in the year during the pensioner trip of Ilya Efimovich, Repin was proud of.

He was pleased that the hope is "independent, hardworking and hardy." He welcomed his daughter's passion for medicine and helped her financially during the training period. The future fate of hope is not enough. She often left, worked as a paramedic in a hospital at a resettlement point in Chelyabinsk. On one of the trips, Nadezhda fell ill and lost her mind. The last years of her life lived in her father’s house and died six months after his death, in the year.

At the exhibition, you can see the picturesque work of hope - “still life”, as well as a portrait of hope performed by her brother Yuri in the year, when the hope was 15 years old. Tatyana's third daughter of Repin was eight years younger than faith and six years younger than hope. She studied at the gymnasium. Like the older sisters, she tried to join the visual arts, but classes were given with great difficulty.

At 21, Tatyana married lieutenant Nikolai Gennadievich Yazev.

In the year, the family was born in the family, who later became the successor of the family Ilya Efimovich, giving him four great -grandchildren. From the years, Tatyana Ilyinichna lived in Zdrevnovo - the first estate of Repin, which was 16 km from Vitebsk. There, she taught with her daughter and son -in -law, survived the difficult years of dispossession. In the year, together with her daughter’s family - her husband Ivan Dmitrievich Dyakonov and four grandchildren - went to her father in Penates, and then in the year, having received an inheritance after the death of her father, - to France.

At his invitation, the great -grandson of Repin Kirill and his wife and great -grandson Galina visited Russia for the first time a year. Thanks to the acquaintance of Rostropovich and the descendants of Repin, a lot from the heritage of Tatyana Ilyinichna, and these are picturesque and graphic works of Ilya Efimovich Repin, letters, documents and photographs were in the collection of M.

Rostropovich - G. Vishnevskaya and is now in Russia.