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Each generation of viewers finds something of their own in Repin's art, something that is open to their time and worldview. What does a modern viewer see in the artist's art today, what is important to them, what is worthy of attention? What attracts us to Ilya Repin today? The extraordinary personality, the artist's love of life, his suffering and delight, his temperamental, bright, dramatic art, the ideas and meanings that his works, paintings and portraits convey? Criticism of social injustice, the topicality of the plots, the reflection of the realities of the 19th century? Or does Repin's art, raising complex ideological issues, offer new aspects in the interpretation of life today, bringing it to a different level of understanding, outlining the path from the everyday to the existential, forcing people to reflect on the most important questions of existence? These and other questions are covered in her lecture by the curator of the Ilya Repin exhibition, Tatyana Yudenkova. Tatyana Yudenkova is a Doctor of Art History, head of the painting department of the second half of the 19th - early 20th centuries at the State Tretyakov Gallery, and a leading researcher at the sector of Russian art of the 18th - early 20th centuries at the Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Arts. Author of more than 100 scientific and popular science articles on the history of Russian art and the problems of collecting in the second half of the 19th century. Curator of a number of exhibitions organized by the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, Russia and abroad. The schedule of lectures from the series "Repin: Point of View" is available at https://goo-gl.ru/5eMf.