A later artist from this country created an eight-branched sculpture that rises from two blocks of black marble in Rotterdam and wrote a work addressed "to you artists Â… for whom art is not just a pretext of talking but a source of real joy" titled The Realist Manifesto.
One artist from this country earned accolades at the International Exhibition of 1867 with his painting of three young apprentices pulling large barrels of water. A later artist from this country created an eight-branched sculpture that rises from two blocks of black marble in Rotterdam and wrote a work addressed "to you artists Â… for whom art is not just a pretext of talking but a source of real joy" titled The Realist Manifesto. Another artist from this country spent the last years of his life designing a glider in the form of a giant insect. Officials riffle through the contents of an open suitcase in a painting showing a propagandist from this country being arrested; that painting was followed up with They Did Not Expect Him. This country was home to the Wanderers, the creator of prouns, and an artist who depicted eleven downtrodden men pulling a barge along its longest river. For 10 points, name this country home to artists like El Lissitzky and Ilya Repin.
One artist from this country earned accolades at the International Exhibition of 1867 with his painting of three young apprentices pulling large barrels of water.
Russia [or the Soviet Union or USSR]