105 years later: "Ivan the terrible" Repin attacked again
ARTinvestment.RU   28 мая 2018

On Friday 25 may 37-летний a resident of Voronezh struck a metal column of glass in the painting of Ilya Repin "Ivan the terrible and his son Ivan on 16 November 1581". The canvas is damaged in three places

"By happy coincidence, the most valuable — the images of the faces and hands of the king and the Prince — was not injured," — stated in official statement of the Tretyakov gallery. The perpetrators of the attack the man was among the last visitors of the gallery. He broke past the officers already going to close the hall with the painting of Repin, and struck several blows on the glass of metal bar fencing. Broken glass (which is why-то was not anti-vandal) has damaged the canvas in three places in the Central part of the canvas — on the figure of the Prince. In addition, from-за fallen glass was badly damaged original chain frame.

the Assailant was immediately detained. They found 37-летний a resident of Voronezh Ivan Podporin. On questioning, he reported that he assaulted Repin, indignant its contents (the version about the murder of Tsarevich Ivan Ivanovich, the father in a fit of rage, previously common, now contested by many — in particular, a group of Orthodox activists in 2013 demanded to remove Repin's painting from the exposition of Tretyakov gallery as defamatory). Before the vandalism, according to Podporina, he drank in the canteen of 100 grams of vodka. "Do not drink vodka, that covered what-то", — says Podporin video clip interrogation uploaded to Youtube.

This is not the first attack on the painting "Ivan the terrible and his son Ivan". 16 Jan 1913 29-летний painter Abram Balashov, subsequently recognized as mentally ill, attacked Repin with a knife and managed to make three deep cuts on the faces of the king and the Prince. The restoration of paintings, he was engaged Repin and Igor Grabar.

After the attack last Friday, employees of the gallery was taken urgently to save the picture: extracted shards of glass from the canvas, the canvas removed from the frame and moved to the restoration workshops. Today, Monday, 28 may at 14:00 in the gallery will be a briefing for members of the press, which will be told all the details about its current status.

Sources: meduza.io, tretyakovgallery.ru, vesti.ru, interfax.ru, artinvestment.ru