Ivan the Terrible swung his staff and accidentally smashed his son’s head before desperately trying to stem the blood flow, but to no avail.

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.

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 ...

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, at ...

"Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan" by Ilya Repin GL Archive / Alamy Stock Photo Staff at Moscow’s State Tretyakov Gallery were preparing to close the museum last Friday night when a man ran ...

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.

Gabby and David Tracy had become rather fond of the large painting of Ivan the Terrible that had been left behind in a house David Tracy bought when he first came to Ridgefield, Conn., in 1987.

The painting depicts Ivan the Terrible mortally wounding his son Ivan in a fit of rage, and it is considered the most psychologically intense of Repin’s paintings -- an expression of the artist ...

The painting depicts Ivan the Terrible cradling his son after murdering him in 1581—a version of history now disputed by those seeking to rehabilitate the notorious Russian tsar’s image.

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.