Ilya Repin

The painting shows exhausted laborers dragging a barge along the Volga River by harness. Repin worked on the subject after seeing barge haulers in 1870, and the finished canvas is usually dated 1870 to 1873.

The 1885 painting shows Ivan IV holding his dying son after striking him, turning a historical legend into an intensely psychological scene. Its violence made it controversial in Russia, and the canvas has been attacked more than once while on public display.

Yes. Repin became one of the best-known painters associated with the Peredvizhniki, or Wanderers, a Russian realist group that organized traveling exhibitions from the 1870s.

That work is Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks, a huge historical canvas Repin developed over many years. It is commonly dated 1880 to 1891 and is now associated with his talent for crowded scenes full of distinct faces and gestures.