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Author Charles Holdefer’s novel “Don’t Look at Me” and most recent book “Ivan the Terrible goes on a Family Picnic” are seen in Prairie Lights in downtown Iowa City on Wednesday, July 17.
Ivan Boesky, who rose to fame and fortune before heading to jail, was believed to have been the model for Wall Street’s Gordon Gekko, one of Hollywood’s most memorable villains.
Ivan Boesky, a high-flying Wall Street arbitrageur in the 1980s who was convicted in an insider-trading scandal that defined the era, has died.
Ilya Repin’s 1885 painting “Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan” comes to mind, as do Wilhelm Brasse’s photographs of German concentration camps.
Russia on Monday called for the harshest possible punishment after a visitor to Moscow's Tretyakov Gallery caused serious damage by attacking a famous 19th-century painting of Ivan the Terrible.
After four years of painstaking and pioneering restoration, Ilya Repin’s 1885 masterpiece Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan was briefly rehung in Moscow’s State Tretyakov Gallery on 23 May.
Lastly, O`Conner argues that Demjanjuk was identified as Ivan the Terrible only by photographs, not in person, and that U.S. experts who examined the photos determined that they had been treated.
Ilya Repin, Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan on November 16, 1581, 1885, Oil on canvas, Tretyakov Gallery.
Among the vast roster of torturers and murderers who were responsible for carrying out the Holocaust, the man called Ivan the Terrible distinguished himself by his sheer brutality and cruelty.