Mystery of the illness of the great painter I. Repin. By the 180th anniversary

Gorozhanin A.V.; Fedyakov A.G.; Lovyagina V.E.

doi:https://doi.org/10.17116/neiro2025890116

Gorozhanin A.V.

Botkin Multidisciplinary Scientific Clinical Center;
Russian Medical Academy of Continuous Professional Education

ORCID: 0000-0002-3593-7034

Fedyakov A.G.

Botkin Multidisciplinary Scientific Clinical Center;
Russian Medical Academy of Continuous Professional Education

ORCID: 0000-0002-8807-3874

Lovyagina V.E.

Repin Estate «The Penates»

ORCID: 0009-0004-8258-1802

Mystery of the illness of the great painter I. Repin. By the 180th anniversary

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Gorozhanin A.V., Fedyakov A.G., Lovyagina V.E.

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Journal: Burdenko's Journal of Neurosurgery. 2025;89(1): 6‑10

DOI: 10.17116/neiro2025890116

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Gorozhanin AV, Fedyakov AG, Lovyagina VE. Mystery of the illness of the great painter I. Repin. By the 180th anniversary. Burdenko's Journal of Neurosurgery. 2025;89(1):6‑10. (In Russ., In Engl.)
https://doi.org/10.17116/neiro2025890116

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Abstract:

There was the 180^th anniversary of Ilya Yefimovich Repin on August 5, 2024. He is the greatest Russian realist artist of the XIX century, a master of historical and genre painting, as well as outstanding portraitist. Repin’s biography is unique. He was a professor and then academician of the Imperial Academy of Arts, teacher, author of memoirs and essays on fine art. After the age of 40, the artist developed a disease with impaired function of the right hand. Therefore, he retrained to write with his left hand. Accurate lifetime and post-mortem diagnosis was not established. The appearance of the artist’s right hand represented by posthumous plaster cast indicates neuropathy of the right ulnar nerve.

Keywords:

history of medicine

XIX century

etiology

famous persons

Repin I

portraits

case report

ulnar neuropathy

ulnar claw

Authors:

Gorozhanin A.V.

Botkin Multidisciplinary Scientific Clinical Center;
Russian Medical Academy of Continuous Professional Education

ORCID: 0000-0002-3593-7034

Fedyakov A.G.

Botkin Multidisciplinary Scientific Clinical Center;
Russian Medical Academy of Continuous Professional Education

ORCID: 0000-0002-8807-3874

Lovyagina V.E.

Repin Estate «The Penates»

ORCID: 0009-0004-8258-1802

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25.09.2024

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21.11.2024

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