The main intrigue is whether the correspondence in question was ever written. In the 1670s, the Ottoman Empire clashed with the Tsardom of Russia. Two hundred years later, renowned realist painter ...
Artist Ilya Repin glorified his native Ukraine and its Cossack legacy in his paintings. All the same, many art historians still mistakenly believe him to be Russian. Ilya Repin has long been ...
Ilya Repin’s Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan (1885) will be the glaring omission from the New Tretyakov Gallery’s vast survey of 180 paintings and 130 graphic works by the Russian artist opening ...
In addition to being a major topic of discussion in last night’s debate among Republican presidential hopefuls, Russian president Vladimir Putin is in the news for a more unusual reason today. Putin ...
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. The ...
In what appeared to be a nationalist outburst, the man nearly destroyed Ilya Repin's 1885 painting of Ivan the Terrible. Ilya Repin, Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan (1885). Collection of the ...
The vandal recanted an earlier claim that he attacked the painting because he drank too much vodka. Russian State Tretyakov Gallery officials attend a press conference after Ilya Repin's world famous ...
The damage to Ilya Repin’s famous painting, “Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan on November 16, 1581,” is apparently much worse than the Tretyakov Gallery first thought. The museum’s experts now say ...