[Mystery of the illness of the great painter I. Repin. By the 180th anniversary].

Abstract

There was the 180^th anniversary of Ilya Yefimovich Repin on August 5, 2024. He is the greatest Russian realist artist of the XIX century, a master of historical and genre painting, as well as outstanding portraitist. Repin's biography is unique. He was a professor and then academician of the Imperial Academy of Arts, teacher, author of memoirs and essays on fine art. After the age of 40, the artist developed a disease with impaired function of the right hand. Therefore, he retrained to write with his left hand. Accurate lifetime and post-mortem diagnosis was not established. The appearance of the artist's right hand represented by posthumous plaster cast indicates neuropathy of the right ulnar nerve.