#Illya Ripyn

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"The Kozaks write a letter to the Turkish Sultan", 1889 - 1896, Illya Ripyn (also known as Ilya Repin).

Ilya Ripyn was a Ukrainian artist. It's a common misconception that he was russian. In russian empire, one could not survive as an artist without drawing russians, especially if you were Ukrainian. In times of Ripyn, russia placed heavy restrictions on Ukrainian language and culture, e.g., Емський указ - nevertheless, Ripyn still signed his paintings with "Ripyn", not "Repin", and still gave Ukrainian names to his paintings, e.g., "Вечорниці". Illya Ripyn befriended a lot of Ukrainian intellectual elite.

If I see another person calling him "russian", I will bite their ass for spreading misinformation.

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Illya Ripyn was Ukrainian, not russian.

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Ilya Repin, 1927

Oil on canvas, 174 × 210 cm, private collection

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"Запорожець" ("The Kozak of Zaporizhzhia Sich) by Illya Ripyn (also known as Ilya Repin), 1870s-1890s.

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"Sofiya Drahomyrova in Ukrainian dress", Illya Ripyn (also known as Ilya Repin), 1889.

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Vitaliy Chepynoga:

The largest museum in Finland recognized Illya Ripyn (Repin) as Ukrainian.

It is not enough to be born Ukrainian. It is necessary to live as a Ukrainian. And then die as a Ukrainian. And, in another hundred years, you may be officially recognized as Ukrainian.

Such a long way to one's own Ukrainianness...

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A fancy outfit from my homeland: юпка "з перчиками" - jupka "with peppers." People who actively use russian language often confuse it with юбка (a skirt). Ukrainians still quarrell whether it originates from Kyiv region or Poltava region. XD

Yupka is a Ukrainian traditional women's clothing: a light shortened coat, intricately cut, with inserted wedges that extended to the bottom. It was usually decorated with embroidery with thin strips of velvet, but in Kyiv and Poltava regions it was covered with thin pieces of wool - red on a green background "peppers", less often - green on red background. In the photo is just such a "pepper" yupka from the funds of the Poltava Museum of Local Lore named after Vasyl Krychevsky (second photo by annasenik). Some people claim it was meant to imitate a royal mantle... but it sounds quite offensive. XD

Illya Ripyn (Repin) painted a portrait of Sofya Dragomyrova (daughter of the commander of the Kyiv, Podilsk and Volyn Governorate, General Mykhailo Dragomyrov) in this very green "jupka" (first photo).