We are ashamed to say that, among the thousands of books that appear on our shelves, we had never before particularly taken note of Ilya Repin. Until now, that is. Here are a huge number of the works of a leading Russian painter and sculptor who was most famous for his involvement with the Itinerant Movement, and they are stunning. These avant garde artists rebelled against the formalism and tradition of the official Academy of Fine Arts and championed the ideals of liberty, equality and fraternity. Repin's most powerful works, for example the eye-popping Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan on November 16th 1581, expressed great psychological depth or, as with Barge Hawlers on the Volga, which exposed tensions within the civil order, strongly condemned those who exploit others through inhuman labour, and celebrated the dignity and fortitude of human beings. This magnificent volume invites you to discover the wonderful chefs d'oeuvre of a progressive realist painter whose work would eventually come to define and influence social artistic movements of the future. There are also telling portrayals of many great men of that time, such as Mussorgsky, Borodin and Tolstoy. 199 very large format pages in superb colour.