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Ilya Repin was a Russian painter who is best known for his realistic depictions of Russian peasant life. He was married twice, his first wife being Zinaida Andreevna Zhemchuzhnikova, who died in 1871. Repin's second wife, Natalia Nordman-Severn, was also an artist, and they had two children together. Nordman-Severn died in 1884, and Repin never remarried.