Initially, Ivan held the staff in his hand, but it ended up on the floor. As soon as it was completed the painting fueled controversy. Alexander III of Russia wasn’t a fan of the canvas so in ...

A man who confessed to being drunk on vodka caused over 500,000 rubles ($8,000) in damage to one of Russia’s most famous paintings, Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan (1885) by Ilya Repin ...

Ivan Konstantin Aivazovsky was a Russian-Armenian Romantic ... solidifying the artist’s lasting importance to the history of Russian art. Aivazovsky’s house in Feodosia was opened as the Aivazovsky ...

The painting, titled “Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan on November 16, 1581,” depicts Russia’s first czar cradling his dying son after striking him in a fit of rage. Media reports say the ...

The painting — titled "Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan on November 16, 1581," depicts Russia's first czar cradling his dying son after striking him in a fit of rage. Media reports say the ...

A rogue in a Russian art gallery was arrested after he “seriously damaged” a priceless painting of Ivan the Terrible. Igor Podporin was at the State Tretyakov Museum in Moscow just before ...

including paintings by Ukrainian artist Arkhip Kuindzhi and Russian romantic painter Ivan Aivazovsky. Three Kuindzhi paintings—“Elbrus,” “Autumn, Crimea” and a sketch of the painting ...

The painting shows the last minutes of one ... though the name wouldn’t be attached to him until much later. Ivan ruled as Russia’s first-ever czar for nearly four decades.

At least four Britons brought in were among the founders of Russian secular art: James Walker ... On view were five seascapes by Ivan Aivazovsky, a marine painter so beloved by Grand Dukes ...