7215293 RAILWAY WORKER IN KHOTKOVO, 1882 (oil on canvas) by Repin, Ilya Efimovich (1844-1930); Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia; (add.info.: 1882//Oil on canvas The city of Khotkovo is located on the outskirts of Moscow, near the Abramtsevo estate, owned by the patron Savva Mamontov, whose family made a fortune thanks to the construction of the railway. Repine spends a few summers there with her family. In 1881, he rented a dacha for the summer, from where he could admire the passage of trains. The construction of the railway in Russia was then a key issue. If Repin has little interest in industrial Russia, he is here witnessing the radical irruption of modernity in the landscape.); Photo by Sylvain Collet.