Russia stole Repin from us, - Vice Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada
Ilya Repin is actually a Ukrainian and not a Russian artist, as everyone believes. Vice-Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Oksana Syroed stated this at the opening of the 11th session of the Parliamentary Assembly of Ukraine and the Republic of Poland, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Unfortunately, we did not have a tradition of knowing the owl and being proud of ours. For example, that painting by Repin, which everyone...