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Ivan IV, czar of Russia from 1547 to 1584, known as Ivan the Terrible. Rischgitz/Getty Images Throughout Russian history, Ivan the Terrible – who among his other crimes murdered his eldest son ...

There, the elder Ivan is racked with guilt and remorse, having just recklessly killed his son with a blow to the head. Ilya Repin, Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan (1883–85).

Between 1883 and 1885, the young Russian painter Ilya Repin painted his most famous work, Ivan The Terrible and His Son Ivan. Sure, the painting is ghastly and so harrowing that even when you google ...

A Moscow court on Tuesday sent a man who attacked a painting of Ivan the Terrible to a penal colony for two and a half years, news agencies reported.

A painting of Ivan the Terrible cradling his dying son [Artsapien] This event, and many more, showed the extent of Ivan's unpredictable and violent nature, even towards his own kin.

One classically-trained painting, “Ivan the Terrible and his Son Ivan” by Ilya Repin, makes me feel horrendous every time I see it. The look of sheer horror on the elder Ivan’s face doesn’t ...

Courtesy: Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow A 37-year-old man has gone on a vodka-crazed rampage at Moscow’s celebrated Tretyakov Gallery, attacking Ilya Repin’s famous painting Ivan the Terrible and His Son ...