According to repin, his "protodeacon" depicts "an excerpt from our deacons, these lions of the clergy, in whom nothing spiritual is invoked for a single note - he is all flesh and blood, pop-eyed, yawning and roaring, a meaningless roar, but solemn and loud, like the rite itself in most cases. It seems to me that our deacon has the only echo of a pagan priest, a slav, and i have always seen him in my dear deacon - as the most typical, the most terrible of all deacons. The sensuality and art of their work, nothing else! the chuguevsky protodeacon ivan ulanov served as a prototype. (in kramskoy. Correspondence, vol. 2, p. 360. ). Object Type: painting. Date: 1877. Dimensions: height: 125 cm (49.2 in); width: 97.5 cm (38.3 in). Medium: oil on canvas. Collection: Tretyakov Gallery. Moscou, galerie Tretiakov.- Archdeacon by Repin
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