ALEXANDRE KERENSKY WITH A BLACK GLOVE, 1917-1918 (oil on canvas)

1917-1918//Oil on canvas Alexander Kerensky (1881-1970), a lawyer and politician, participated in the events of the February 1917 revolution. Having become a minister and then president in May of the provisional government, he was overthrown by Lenin in October. Repin, who at first greeted the revolution with enthusiasm, became interested in Kerensky and obtained permission to make his portrait. The latter poses here in the Winter Palace, in the old library of Nicholas II, which became his office. Repin made two portraits. In 1926, he donated one of them to the Museum of the Revolution in Moscow through a delegation of Soviet painters who came to the Penates.