🎨Ilya Repin (1844–1930): Reclaiming a Ukrainian Master Birthplace: Chuguyev, Kharkiv Province, UkraineNotable Work: Barge Haulers on the Volga (1870–1873) Ilya Repin was born in 1844 in Chuguyev, a town in the Kharkiv region of Ukraine, historically part of Sloboda Ukraine. Raised in a Cossack family, his early artistic endeavors included painting traditional Ukrainian Easter eggs …
