The Cossacks' reply came as a stream of invective and vulgar rhymes, parodying the Sultan's titles: Repin also admired them: "All that Gogol wrote about them is true! A holy people! No one in the world held so deeply freedom, equality, and fraternity." During Repin's time, the Cossacks enjoyed great popular sympathy. The painting exhibits the Cossacks' pleasure at striving to come up with ever more base vulgarities. The Cossacks, led by Ivan Sirko, replied in an uncharacteristic manner: they wrote a letter, replete with insults and profanities. However, Mehmed demanded that the Cossacks submit to Turkish rule. Repin became curious about the story and in 1880 started the first of his studies.Īccording to the story, the Zaporozhian Cossacks (from 'beyond the rapids', Ukrainian: za porohamy), inhabiting the lands around the lower Dnieper River in Ukraine, had defeated Ottoman Empire forces in battle. He gave it to historian Dmytro Yavornytsky (1855-1940), who by chance read it to his guests, among whom was the painter Ilya Repin. Novitsky, found a copy made in the 18th century. The original reply, if it ever existed, has not survived however, in the 1870s an amateur ethnographer from Yekaterinoslav (today Dnipro), Ya. Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks depicts a supposedly historical tableau, set in 1676, and based on the legend of Cossacks sending a reply to an ultimatum of the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, Mehmed IV. Since then, the canvas has been exhibited in the State Russian Museum in Saint Petersburg. Alexander III bought the painting for 35,000 rubles, at the time the greatest sum ever paid for a Russian painting. Repin recorded the years of work along the lower edge of the canvas. Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks to Sultan Mehmed IV of the Ottoman Empire, also known as Cossacks of Saporog Are Drafting a Manifesto (Ukrainian: Запорожці пишуть листа турецькому султану), is a painting by Russian artist Ilya Repin.
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