ref. 14670 – Zaporozhian Cossacks writing a letter to Sultan Mahmud IV of Türkiye.

• Artist : Ramin Rostamzadeh (born in 1983, Iran)
• Ref. 14.670
• Title : ” Zaporozhian Cossacks writing a letter to Sultan Mahmud IV of Türkiye “
• From the «private collection »
• Technic : oil on canvas
• Size of canvas : High 150 cm x Width 270 cm
• Frame : american wood frame black ink
• Framed size : High 155 cm x Width 275 cm
• certificate of authenticity provided

This is a historical painting, showing Zaporozhian Cossacks writing a letter to the Ottoman Sultan, brimming with insults. The painter knows how to capture the intense pleasure the Cossacks felt in imagining new vulgarities. He arouses an irresistible sympathy for a seasoned, freedom-loving people, whom Repin admires and about whom he notes in a letter to the critic Vladimir Stasov :

Zaporozhian Cossacks Writing a Letter to the Sultan of Turkey is a painting by the Russian painter Ilya Repin. The 2.03 × 3.58 m work was begun by Repin in 1880 and completed only in 1891. The painting is now housed in the Russian Museum in Saint Petersburg. Sketches for it are held by the Tretyakov Gallery and the Belarusian State Museum of Fine Arts. There is a second version of the painting, which Ilya Repin began before the delivery of the first painting, in 1889, and completed in 1896. It is housed in the Kharkiv Art Museum. At the end of his life, Repin returned to the Zaporozhian Cossacks, having them dance the hopak in his last painting (1927–1930).