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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 director of Russia’s state-run Tretyakov Gallery says Ilya Repin's painting of Ivan the Terrible will be displayed in a special protective glass case after it was damaged by a vandal ...

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 1885 painting by the Russian realist Ilya Repin depicts the wild-eyed tsar clutching the son he has just murdered, Tsarevich Ivan. The gallery revealed in a statement that the glass covering ...

Drunk on vodka, a man attacked one of Russia’s most famous paintings with a pole, badly damaging the artwork. The painting, “Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan on November 16, 1581,” was ...

A massive 19th century oil painting of Ivan the Terrible, the first czar of Russia, was returned to its rightful owners on Monday, after its disappearance from a Ukrainian museum more than 75 ...