Painting of the Week: Religious Procession in Kursk Province

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Repin’s masterpiece offers an interesting glimpse into the evolution of Russian nationalist realism into the socialist realism that came to dominate Soviet art

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Tretyakov Gallery
Main Building (Glavnoye Zdanie)

"Religious Procession in Kursk Province"

by Ilya Repin