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Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks
is an
oil on canvas
painting completed by
Ilya Repin
from 1880 to 1891. It depicts
Cossacks
of the
Zaporozhian Host
writing a reply filled with vulgarities and invectives to an ultimatum from Turkish Sultan
Mehmed IV
. The 203 cm × 358 cm (80 in × 141 in) work is now held at the
Russian Museum
in
Saint Petersburg
.
Painting:
Ilya Repin
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