Martin Antonenko
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Assassination attempt on one of Russia's most famous paintings!
The famous painting "Tsar Ivan IV with his dying son" by Ilya Repin...
...is badly damaged by a drunk on May 25, 2018 in Moscow's Tretyakov Gallery.
The man hits a bollard (seen in the foreground!)...
...several times with full force on the painting, the protective glass pane in front of it breaks and the canvas is perforated in three places.
The perpetrator can be arrested immediately afterwards...:
In handcuffs, he asks himself questions from a reporter who happens to be present and her television team from the broadcast station "rtw"...:
When asked about his motive, the man replies that he had previously drunk 100 grams of vodka in the museum restaurant (that's about a toothbrush glass full!) - and then it "suddenly came over me"...
The picture is hurriedly taken down and taken to the museum's own restoration workshop...:
After a detailed appraisal, a museum spokesman explains that they were lucky in their misfortune.
Neither the faces of the tsar nor his son nor their hands were damaged!
The picture - not yet protected by a pane - had already been attacked in the same place in 1913 by a religious fanatic with a knife.
The faces of the people depicted were severely damaged...:
The people in the picture had living models when Repin painted it! As with other paintings, he chose portraits of his friends for his protagonists:
The trains of the "Ivan IV." show those of his painter friend Grigorij Mjassojedow...
... the dying son is based on the composer Pawel Blaramberg...:
Trotz der relativ geringen Schäden durch das Attentat dauerte es lange, bis das Meisterwerk wieder der Öffentlichkeit zugänglich war...
The famous painting "Tsar Ivan IV with his dying son" by Ilya Repin...
...is badly damaged by a drunk on May 25, 2018 in Moscow's Tretyakov Gallery.
The man hits a bollard (seen in the foreground!)...
...several times with full force on the painting, the protective glass pane in front of it breaks and the canvas is perforated in three places.
The perpetrator can be arrested immediately afterwards...:
In handcuffs, he asks himself questions from a reporter who happens to be present and her television team from the broadcast station "rtw"...:
When asked about his motive, the man replies that he had previously drunk 100 grams of vodka in the museum restaurant (that's about a toothbrush glass full!) - and then it "suddenly came over me"...
The picture is hurriedly taken down and taken to the museum's own restoration workshop...:
After a detailed appraisal, a museum spokesman explains that they were lucky in their misfortune.
Neither the faces of the tsar nor his son nor their hands were damaged!
The picture - not yet protected by a pane - had already been attacked in the same place in 1913 by a religious fanatic with a knife.
The faces of the people depicted were severely damaged...:
The people in the picture had living models when Repin painted it! As with other paintings, he chose portraits of his friends for his protagonists:
The trains of the "Ivan IV." show those of his painter friend Grigorij Mjassojedow...
... the dying son is based on the composer Pawel Blaramberg...:
Trotz der relativ geringen Schäden durch das Attentat dauerte es lange, bis das Meisterwerk wieder der Öffentlichkeit zugänglich war...
