This is from Russian painter Ilya Repin:
Afternoon Tea: Negress (1876)
Ilya Repin
Afternoon Tea: The Self Immolation of Gogol (1909)
This is by the Russian painter Ilya Repin:
Nikolai Gogol, a famous Russian author, went mad in his 40s and burned the manuscript for the second part of Dead Souls, a classic novel about Russian life in the 19th century.
