Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks

Ilya Repin

Painted

1880–91

Collection

State Russian Museum, St Petersburg

The story goes that in the 17th century the Zaporozhian Cossacks answered an Ottoman sultan's demand for surrender with a letter full of insults. The men crowd round a scribe at the table, each adding his line and roaring with laughter, from the bare-backed man in front to the faces under fur caps. Repin worked on the canvas for more than a decade.

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