Saturday, 11 February 2012


Volga Boatmen (1870-1873),
Ilya Repin
State Russian Museum, St Petersburg

Barge Haulers on the Volga or Burlaki (Russian: Burlaki na Volge) is a 1870–1873 oil-on-canvas painting by the Russian realist painter and sculptor Ilya Repin. The work depicts 11 labouring men dragging a barge on the Volga River. The men seem to almost collapse forward in exhaustion under the burden of hauling a large boat upstream in heavy, hot weather ... (Wikipedia)

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The Song of the Volga Boatmen

The "Song of the Volga Boatmen" is a well-known traditional Russian song collected by Mily Balakirev, and published in his book of folk songs in 1866. It is a genuine shanty sung by burlaks, or barge-haulers, on the Volga River. The song inspired Ilya Repin's famous painting, Barge Haulers on the Volga, which depicts burlaks in Tsarist Russia ... (Wikipedia)


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