This time, the faces of Ivan and his son were unharmed – only Ivan Jr.’s body was cut. Thirty-seven-year-old Podporin was pronounced sane. On April 30, 2019, he received a sentence – 2, 5 ...

The dispute boils down to one deceptively simple question: Was Ivan really so terrible? 2. Repin’s canvas depicts the sixteenth-century tsar cradling his son, Tsarevitch Ivan, moments after murdering ...

Ivan the Terrible’s pointed staff was a symbolic object and appears in other paintings of him by various artists. It is believed that Ivan the Terrible killed his son with this staff.

The painting, named "Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan on November 16, 1581," was vandalized on Saturday by a man who was reported to be in a vodka-fueled rampage. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko) ...

MOSCOW, May 29. /TASS/. The man who damaged the painting "Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan on November 16, 1581" by Ilya Repin at the Tretyakov Gallery said in court that he had been pressured.

The painting, “Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan on November 16, 1581,” was created by Ilya Repin, one of Russia’s most famous 19th century artists, and housed at the Tretyakov Gallery in ...

Repin's painting, which was completed in 1885, depicts the moment of deranged grief when the aging Ivan the Terrible realizes he has murdered his son and heir apparent in a rage.

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 vandal enraged by what he claimed is a misleading portrayal of Ivan the Terrible has badly damaged one of the most iconic paintings of the infamous Tsar. Jump to content.