Ilya Repin was one of the greatest Realist painters of the Russian Empire. Born in present-day Ukraine, he traveled ...

The painting shows the last minutes of boyarin Feodorov ... Was he claiming the throne of the neighboring Polish-Lithuanian state? Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan, Ilya Repin,1883–1885 Most ...

The painting shows the last minutes ... Khodarkovsky tells How Stuff Works. Despite his well-known nickname, Ivan did not take on the “terrible” moniker during his lifetime.

On hearing the news of the loss of his unborn child, Ivan’s second son confronted his ... as Hitler had a passion for painting, Joseph Stalin was a serious poet and Saddam Hussein was a prolific ...