European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 17, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                R s t a n n. Jill i " Moscow Tours but can be explored on a free afternoon. The gallery is located at Lav Rushinsky per Wujok 10, near Repin place. It is about six blocks South of the Kremlin across both arms of the Moscow River. Both the Tretyakov gallery and the russian museum Are closed at least one Day a week. Ask your tour guide or hotel receptionist for visiting times. Repin s last Home near St. Petersburg is open to the Public. He was the guest of Natalya Nordman whom he had met at an Art exhibition in Paris in 1 900. She was a cultured person of the privileged class versed in music architecture painting and foreign languages. And she. Was almost 20 years younger. Repin deserted his wife and children and lived wit Nordman Here for 14 years. Nordman supported the oppressed and opened her House sundays for Public lectures. But her sympathies also induced strange customs she did not think her servants should wait on others for example. Visitors were met by a placard hit the Gong come in and disrobe in the  then proceed straight  servants sat at the dinner table with guests often to their embarrassment. The table revolved so everyone could serve himself. Nordman a strict vegetarian wrote a Book for peasants on preparing tasty meals from dried grass. Another of her cookbooks called for rare fruits which most peasants could not afford and Hay. Nordman was the butt of jokes but a colleague of repins artist Kornei Zhukovsky wrote that Nordman made Repin extremely Happy. The Home named Penny is located in the. Village of repino. Private excursions can be booked from St. Petersburg. Ask your tour company or the hotel service Bureau about arrangements. An excellent source of information on Repin and his work is fan and Stephen Parker s Russia on Canvas Llya flip a 0980pennsylvania state University press most of the information in this article and photographs come from this Book. Susan Solh is a Iron Lance or ret living in Gormany cossacks compose a facetious letter to the turkish Sultan. Who has threatened to annihilate them if they do not surrender their territory top painting. Barge men of the Volga won Repin instant Fame for his sensitive portrayal of the lower class. February 17, 1994 stripes Magazine 11