In the 19th century, the historical Zaporozhian Cossacks were sometimes the subject of picturesque tales demonstrating admiration of their primitive vitality and contemptuous disregard for authority (in marked contrast to the more civilized subjects of the authoritarian Russian state). The version that is stored at the Kharkiv Art Museum The day's the same over here as it is over there for this kiss our arse! Now we'll conclude, for we don't know the date and don't own a calendar the moon's in the sky, the year with the Lord. You won't even be herding pigs for the Christians. So the Zaporozhians declare, you lowlife. Pig's snout, mare's arse, slaughterhouse cur, unchristened brow. Thou Babylonian scullion, Macedonian wheelwright, brewer of Jerusalem, goat-fucker of Alexandria, swineherd of Greater and Lesser Egypt, pig of Armenia, Podolian thief, catamite of Tartary, hangman of Kamyanets, and fool of all the world and underworld, an idiot before God, grandson of the Serpent, and the crick in our dick. We have no fear of your army by land and by sea we will battle with thee. Thou shalt not, thou son of a whore, make subjects of Christian sons. What the devil kind of knight are thou, that canst not slay a hedgehog with your naked arse? The devil shits, and your army eats. O sultan, Turkish devil and damned devil's kith and kin, secretary to Lucifer himself. Zaporozhian Cossacks to the Turkish Sultan! Later it was purchased by Emperor Alexander the Third.The Cossacks' reply came as a stream of invective and vulgar rhymes: This was completed more than a decade of work on the masterpiece. But this was the decision of the artist, with this gray stain he decided to balance the overall composition. His wide gray caftan covered many bright figures in this part of the canvas. They believe that the author spoiled a lot when he put in action the hero standing with his back on the right side of the composition. Many contemporaries of Repin, who watched the process of creating this canvas, were dissatisfied with his end. All ethnographic elements of clothing and lifeare written off from real historical costumes and museum exhibits. The artist gave a lot of time and energy to find suitable sitters. When we see how the Cossacks write a letter to the Turkish sultan, then one does not even immediately realize the simple fact that we have, among other things, portraits of concrete people, Repin's contemporaries. In the complex multifigured composition of the picture there is not one random element. He specifically went to Zaporozhye for full-scale sketching.
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The creative method of Repin did not recognize other approaches, except for working with nature. In order for us to see this becometextbook work, the author had to do a titanic work.
#COSSACKS LETTER TO SULTAN FREE#
They are free people and do not need the protection of a foreign monarch.Ībout how the picture was created Repin "Zaporozhtsy write a letter to the Turkish sultan" And the Cossacks will go their own way, without waiting for an answer. The letter of the Cossacks to the Turkish sultan will be completed and sent to the addressee. People quite understand the price of their joke. Cossacks responded to a powerful monarch so that this insult can only be washed off with blood. This is an open challenge to a much stronger enemy who had the imprudent folly of offering freedom-loving people his feudal protection. They are written very expressively and boldly. Various versions of the historical document, over which the characters of the Repin picture work enthusiastically, can be found and read. We see only how the great Russian painter interpreted this scene. The event, depicted by Repin in the picture,as the Cossacks write a letter to the Turkish sultan, took place in real history. But to overcome the distance between the instant pencil sketch and the brilliant painting, Ilya Efimovich had to work hard. The attendees say that Repin grabbed a pencil and immediately sketched out a sketch in which the Cossacks gathered in the camp parking wrote a letter to the Turkish sultan Mohammed the Fourth. The thought of creating the painting visited Repin suddenly, when in the circle of friends he got acquainted with the text of this famous letter. And one of the tops in the work of the great Russian artist. This is one of the most replicable works of classical Russian painting.
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The picture is familiar to all from childhood.
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There is hardly anyone who would not knowfamous painting by Ilya Repin, telling how the Cossacks write a letter to the Turkish sultan.