BAL239484 The Zaporozhye Cossacks writing a letter to the Turkish Sultan, 1890-91 (oil on canvas) by Repin, Ilya Efimovich (1844-1930); 203 x 358 cm; State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia; (add.info.: Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks to Sultan Mehmed IV of the Ottoman Empire, also known as Cossacks of Saporog Are Drafting a Manifesto. reply to Turkish demand for surrender in 1675; dispute over borderland, Ukraine, between Catholic Poland and Muslim Turkey;); Russian, out of copyright.