In Moscow, a visitor to the Tretyakov Gallery damaged Repin's picture

Moscow police detained a man who on Friday evening damaged the painting by Ilya Repin “Ivan the Terrible and his son Ivan on November 16, 1581” (also known as “Ivan the Terrible kills his son”) in the Tretyakov Gallery, writes Air force.

As reported by the press service of the Tretyakov Gallery, one of the last visitors broke into the already empty Repin hall through a group of museum staff who conducted an inspection of the halls before closing them, and struck the wall with a metal fence several times.

“The canvas is broken in three places in the central part of the work on the figure of a prince. The author's artistic frame suffered greatly from the fall of the glass, ”they told the museum.

In this case, the most valuable - the image of the faces and hands of both characters in the picture - was not affected.

According to 1TV.ru, vandal detained the metropolitan police. A man 37 years old, he came from Voronezh. At first there was information that he was trying to destroy the canvas because of the historical falsehood of the image, allegedly he did not agree with the plot, where Ivan the Terrible deals a mortal blow to his son. It was Repin's fiction. But it turned out that alcohol was to blame.

“I went, I came to look at her. At eight in the evening went to the buffet. I drank 100 grams of vodka. I do not drink vodka, so something has been covered, ”said the detainee.

A man faces three years in prison. How much time it takes to recover is unclear. We can talk about a few years.

Ilya Repin’s painting “Ivan the Terrible and his son Ivan November 16, 1581” was purchased in 1885 by the founder of the Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow merchant Pavel Tretyakov, from the author from a traveling exhibition.

The artist began working on the work in 1882, inspired by the music of Rimsky-Korsakov and impressed by contemporary European painting. Also, the creation of the picture was a reaction to events related to the death of Emperor Alexander II and the execution of the People.

In 1913, the insane, Abram Balashov stabbed three vertical cuts in the canvas. After a complex restoration, in which Ilya Repin himself took part, the picture is under observation, and since 1927 has been kept under glass all the time. She is constantly represented in the exposition of the Tretyakov Gallery and is never given to exhibitions as it cannot be transported.

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