Repin's famous painting
On May 25, 2018, the famous 19th-century painting Ivan the Terrible Killed by Ivan the Terrible was destroyed for the second time in the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow.
The vandal claimed to have gone to the gallery to watch Ivan the Terrible Kill, and after reading it, he went to the gallery café and drank "100 grams of vodka", because he "never drank vodka", so he was "a little delirious", which led to aggressive behavior.
The vandal, Baudborin, told police he disagreed with Repin's approach to expression, arguing that the painting deserved to be destroyed because it did not correspond to historical facts.
Some Russian historians have expressed a similar view that Ivan the Terrible did not kill his son with his own hands.
Saboteur Podbov
The painting was first destroyed on February 16, 1913, when a man armed with a sharp knife came to the Tlychakov Gallery and made three large cuts in the painting, and the painting was rudely destroyed, directly leading to the suicide of the curator at the time.
Fortunately, Repin was alive at the time and spent 12 years restoring the painting. Subsequently, the gallery installed a glass protective cover for the painting.
Ivan the Terrible was the first Tsar in Russian history (reigned 16 January 1547 – 28 March 1584), Grand Duke Vasily III of Moscow, and his second wife, Elena. Son of Grimskaya.
His mother, Yelena, a descendant of the Great Khan of the Mongolian Golden Horde, finally gave birth to an heir after marrying Vasily III, who was nearly 50 years old and childless.
The white part is where it is scratched
Ivan the Terrible ascended the throne at the age of three, and his mother temporarily became regent, at a time when the various groups were fiercely fighting for power, falling and murdering.
It had a profound influence on the formation of Ivan the Terrible's character and his activities, and from an early age he developed a strong-willed and ruthless character, agitated, cruel, and severely suppressed the nobles.
In the winter of 1564, Ivan the Terrible suddenly left Moscow with his family and went to the village of Alexanderrov near the capital, where he had a letter delivered back: "Because I cannot tolerate the betrayals around me, I no longer govern the country, but follow the path god has shown." ”
His actions caused panic in Moscow, and he returned to Moscow after receiving the archbishop's promise to him that he had the right to execute any traitor who wanted to be executed.
Subsequently, he introduced his original "special jurisdiction" in the country, dividing the national territory into two parts, one of which was a special jurisdiction: mainly the territory of the heart of Russia, ruled by the special jurisdiction appointed by the Tsar;
One is the ordinary area: mainly for the remote and backward areas, under the administration of the noble lords, many large nobles have been driven from the special jurisdiction to the ordinary area, greatly weakening the strength. At the same time Ivan the Terrible formed a special army that was absolutely loyal to the Tsar and ruthless and arbitrary to his subjects.
Ivan the Terrible
Subsequently, massacres began, mainly against feudal princes and nobles who had the strength to resist the Tsar.
In 7 years, about 4,000 great nobles were killed.
Ivan the Terrible, while eradicating the great nobility, fostered the power of the minor nobles and citizens, and the positive effect of the special rule was to eliminate the hidden dangers of the division of local lords and strengthen the centralization of power.
But other tyranny of Ivan the Terrible can only be explained by the tyranny of the autocratic monarch.
His army looted Novgorod, which had always had independence and republican tendencies, estimated tens of thousands of people, and massacred the kazan people during the annexation of the Kazan Khanate.
Only nine of the ancient lords' families survived, and most of the land was confiscated; Bishop Philip of Moscow was strangled to death for denouncing the cruel reign of Ivan the Terrible.
The landmark Vasily Ascension Cathedral in the corner of Moscow's Red Square was built to celebrate his conquest of Kazan, and after the church was rumored to have been repaired, Ivan the Terrible ordered the architect to be blinded to prevent him from devising the same exquisite building.
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The painting selects Ivan the Terrible's atrocities in everyday life, and during a quarrel with his son, Ivan the Terrible hit his son's temple with a wat staff, an accidental impulse that killed his son.
The painter used this tragic scene as a subject, the Tsar on a crimson carpet, clinging to his bloodied son, who had lost his life because of himself. On Ivan the Terrible's thin face, he stared at two large, terrified eyes.
It's like regretting it, and it's like praying for his son not to die, and what we see is the irreversible pain of killing the son.
Through this work, the painter, on the one hand, foreshadows the imminent demise of Ivan's rule and shows the world that the brutal Tsar is doomed to failure; on the other hand, it also shows the complexity of human emotions, the intertwining of human and animal nature.
When the Russian literary hero Tolstoy saw the work, he praised: "Good, great, so skillful, without showing any traces." ”
Ivan the Terrible Kills
The painting was so contagious that the critic Stasov collected reactions from all sides in newspapers almost every day.
The astonishing events depicted in the paintings provoked official protests.
In his note to the Emperor, the Chief Prosecutor of the Holy Patriarchate of Russia, Bobidnoszev wrote that art today is really incredible, and that it is not a good example, but a naked realist feeling with a tendency to criticize and expose.
What is puzzling is that the painter prefers to depict these events in full reality, what is the purpose of this? Why paint Ivan the Terrible? There is no reason other than a certain tendency.
I wonder which master can fix this masterpiece this time? Will the audience still be able to see this authentic painting in the future?