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|image=Ilja Jefimowitsch Repin - Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks - Yorck.jpg
|title=Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks
|texttitle=Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks
|size=500
|caption=Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks is an oil on canvas painting completed by Ilya Repin from 1880 to 1891. It depicts Cossacks of the Zaporozhian Host writing a reply filled with vulgarities and invectives to an ultimatum from Turkish Sultan Mehmed IV. The 203 cm × 358 cm (80 in × 141 in) work is now held at the Russian Museum in Saint Petersburg.
|credit=Painting: Ilya Repin
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