On may 18, 1927, repin wrote to chukovsky: ". . For more than six months i have been working on the painting "gopak", dedicated to the memory of modest petrovich mussorgsky. . ". A large canvas was taken, and the painting "gopak - dance of the zaporozhian cossacks" began to be composed on it. Daring, joy. The canvas seems unable to accommodate all the figures. . The zaporozhian cossacks are jumping over a fire, dancing. "even a hundred-year-old old man began to squat," repin wrote to his friends about the painting, retelling its plot. Correspondence with the expert on the zaporozhian sich, the scientist yavornytsky, began again. Repin asked to send him photographs, since it was difficult for him to go to zaporizhia, he was old. Repin still had a lot of work to do with "gopak" - in 1928 he wrote to chukovsky that it would probably take another two years. Work on the "gopak" took place in the upper unheated studio, where repin climbed with difficulty, only in the summer, right up until his death from a cold on september 29, 1930. (kirillina e. Repin in "penates". L. , 1977, p. 198. ). Object Type: painting. Date: 1927. Dimensions: height: 174 cm (68.5 in); width: 210 cm (82.6 in). Medium: oil on linoleum. Collection: Private collection. Gopak by Repin
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