Russian Art
Repin, I. E.
"St. Nicholas of Mirlikia Preventing the Execution". 1888
Notes: St. Nicholas of Mirlikia Preventing the Execution of Three Innocent People
This popular and dramatic work was repeated by Ilya Repin in two other versions. Its subject was meant to provide an historical example of mercy toward the condemned and thereby to reinforce the movement against capital punishment in Russia which was gaining strength in the 1880s.
