Repin begins the publication of a series of articles defending beauty in art against utilitarianism and moralising.
These were: 'Pis'ma ob iskusstve k redaktoru "Teatral'noi gazety"' ('Letters on Art to the Editor of The Theatre Newspaper'), 1893: 'Zametki khudozhnika.' Knizhki 'Nedeli' ('Notes of an Artist' in Books of the Week), 1894: 'Nikolai Nikolaevich Ge i nashi pretenzii k iskusstvu'. Ezhemesiachnoe literaturnoe prilozhenie k zhurnalu Niva ('Nikolai Nikolaevich Ge and Our Demands on Art' in Monthly Literary Supplement to the Journal 'The Field'), 1894.