ロシア帝国のチュグエフ（今のウクライナ・ハルキウ州のチュフイウ）に生まれました。サンクトペテルブルクの美術アカデミーで学び、地方を巡回して展覧会を開く「移動派」の中心的な画家になります。重い船を綱で引く人々を描いた『ヴォルガの舟曳き』や、大笑いするコサックたちの『トルコのスルタンへ手紙を書くザポロージャ・コサック』が代表作です。
Repin was born in Chuguev in the Russian Empire, now Chuhuiv in Ukraine's Kharkiv region. He studied at the Academy of Arts in St Petersburg and became a leading member of the Peredvizhniki, or 'Wanderers,' who took exhibitions around the country. His best-known works include Barge Haulers on the Volga, showing men pulling a heavy boat, and the laughing Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks.
