Repin's painting "Ivan the Terrible and his son Ivan" returned to the Tretyakov Gallery

The painting "Ivan the Terrible and his son Ivan" by Ilya Repin, which was damaged in 2018, returned to the permanent exposition of the Tretyakov Gallery after restoration. This was announced on Monday, December 16, by the Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation Olga Lyubimova.

"The restored masterpiece was presented at the focus exhibition, which shows the stages of restoration and the history of the canvas's creation. The work is reliably protected: it is now exhibited in a specially designed climatic vandal-proof capsule," she wrote in her Telegram channel.

The painting has been under restoration for several years since 2019 in a special workshop of the museum. The masters who worked on it not only repaired the damage, but also brought back the lost colors.

Ilya Repin painted the canvas in 1883-1885, and entrepreneur Pavel Tretyakov bought it from the artist in 1885.

In late May 2018, a visitor to the Tretyakov Gallery damaged a Repin painting exhibited there. Igor Podporin broke the protective fence, and afterwards spoiled the canvas. Initially, the attacker claimed that he took this step because he was drunk and he was outraged by the subject of the painting. However, he later changed his testimony, saying that he had only drunk compote. A criminal case was opened against him under part 2 of article 243 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Destruction or damage to objects of cultural heritage, committed against especially valuable objects").