Ilya Repin was one of the greatest Realist painters of the Russian Empire. Born in present-day Ukraine, he traveled ...

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No matter how bad things got for Israel Vazquez, you couldn’t wipe the smile off his face. Although plagued later in life by serious vision problems, an MS diagnosis and the cancer that cost him his ...