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Repin's procession of exhausted men hauling a barge up the Volga is a searing image of human toil under the Russian sun. Each weathered face is an individual portrait of endurance. It became an icon of social conscience in Russian art.
Barge Haulers on the Volga
- Date1873
- MovementRealism
- WhereState Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg
- RegionRussia