Art critic Clement Greenberg selected Repin's painting as a bad example of "kitsch" in his influential essay Avant-Garde and Kitsch (1939).[3] The painting appears in the opening credits of the 1962 movie Taras Bulba. The writing of the letter is depicted in the film Taras Bulba (2009). A trailer for the "Cossacks" expansion to the video game Europa Universalis IV includes an altered version of the reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks (2015).[4] The game Cossacks: European Wars has the central detail of the picture in its logo.