The painting exhibits the Cossacks' pleasure at striving to come up with ever more base vulgarities. The Cossacks, led by Ivan Sirko, replied in an uncharacteristic manner: they wrote a letter, replete with insults and profanities.
However, Mehmed demanded that the Cossacks submit to Ottoman rule. Īccording to the story, the Zaporozhian Cossacks (from "beyond the rapids", Ukrainian: za porohamy), inhabiting the lands around the lower Dnieper River in Ukraine, had defeated Ottoman Empire forces in battle. Since then, the canvas has been exhibited in the State Russian Museum in Saint Petersburg. Repin recorded the years of work along the lower edge of the canvas.
The 2.03 m by 3.58 m canvas was started in 1880 and finished in 1891. Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks to Sultan Mehmed IV of the Ottoman Empire, also known as Cossacks of Saporog Are Drafting a Manifesto (Russian: Запорожцы пишут письмо турецкому султану), is a painting by Russian artist Ilya Repin. Repin became curious about the story and in 1880 started the first of his studies. He gave it to historian Dmytro Yavornytsky (1855–1940), who by chance read it to his guests, among whom was the painter Ilya Repin. Novitsky, found a copy made in the 18th century. The original reply, has not survived however, in the 1870s an amateur ethnographer from Yekaterinoslav (today Dnipro), Ya. Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks depicts a supposedly historical tableau, set in 1676, and based on the legend of Cossacks sending a reply to an ultimatum of the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, Mehmed IV. The irreverent letter the Cossacks wrote to the Ottoman Sultan in 1676.
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