page_title: Ilya Ostroukhov
section_title: The Tretyakov Gallery
hierarchical_section_title: Ilya Ostroukhov / Biography / The Tretyakov Gallery
caption_attribution_description: English: The drawing forms a pair with The Cartoon Portrait of Antonina Shchekotova. Русский: Рисунок образует пару с шаржем на Антонину Николаевну Щекотову. &#160;&#160;&#160;English: Acknowledge, please,that you deigned to report at 11 ½.Русский: Распишитесь пожалуйста,что изволили явиться в 11 ½ часа.&#160;&#160;&#160;English: I left the house at 9 in the morning,it wasn’t my fault, that a tram went for 2 ½ hours!.. Русский: Я выехала из дома в 9 ч. утра, не моя вина в том, что трамвай шел 2 ½ часа!..
context_page_description: Ilya Semyonovich Ostroukhov was a Russian landscape painter and art collector; associated with the Peredvizhniki.
context_section_description: He would also develop a close friendship with Pavel Tretyakov, who bought several of his early paintings. After Tretyakov's death in 1898, the Moscow City Duma chose Ostroukhov as one of the trustees for the Tretyakov Gallery. From 1899 to 1903, he served as de facto head of the board, then was removed for spending too much on acquisitions. 
  Apparently upset by the affair, he retired to a spa in the Vosges to recuperate. In 1905, after some contention, the Duma elected him Chairman of the Board. Everything went well until 1913, when a knife-wielding attacker slashed Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan, Repin's painting of Ivan the Terrible. This gave Ostroukhov's opponents a chance to attack him. He resigned and, by mutual agreement with the Duma, was replaced by Igor Grabar.  
  During this period (which also included a stint as organizer of the Russian exhibition at the Exposition Universelle (1900) and election to the Imperial Academy in 1906) he had virtually given up painting. It was not until 1916, when he spent some time with friends in Crimea, that he began to sketch again. Two years later, he held his last full-scale exhibition with the Peredvizhniki.
caption: Ilya Ostroukhov by Ernst Lissner (1927).
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