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Repin began working on the painting in Moscow. [1] A first overall sketch, with the character of the Tsar turned to his right, dates from 1882. The idea of the painting, according to Repin, is linked to his confrontation with the themes of violence, revenge and blood during the political events of 1881; additional sources of inspiration were the music of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and the ...
Historians generally believe that Ivan killed his son in a fit of rage, [7] with the argument ending after the elder Ivan fatally struck his son in the head with his pointed staff. [70] Yelena also suffered a miscarriage within hours of the incident. [69] The event is depicted in the famous painting by Ilya Repin, Ivan the Terrible and His Son ...
Ivan Ivanovich was killed by his father in a fit of rage, [5] with the argument ending after the elder Ivan fatally struck his son in the head with his pointed staff. [6] Yelena also suffered a miscarriage within hours of the incident. [4] The event is depicted in the famous painting by Ilya Repin, Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan.
This painting, depicting the tsar, his face full of horror, just after he has killed his son with his sceptre in a demented rage. It caused a scandal. It caused a scandal. Some critics saw it as a veiled criticism of Tsar Alexander III , who had brutally suppressed the opposition after a failed assassination attempt.
Eisenstein contemplated several endings for Part III: while the published screenplay ends with the tsar walking triumphantly toward the sea, one ending had the aged tsar contemplating the future of Russia, a second had the tsar dying alone and regretful after his murder of his son, and a third would have had the tsar seeing a prophetic vision ...
They Did Not Expect Him is a painting by realist artist Ilya Repin made between 1884 and 1888. It depicts the return of a narodnik from exile and his family's reaction. The painting is part of Repin's "Narodniki" series, which includes four other artworks. Repin began working on early versions of the canvas in 1884, at his country house in ...
When Ivan began his sweeps of the surrounding churches, about two to four weeks later, his men set out to finish the job they started before the tsar's arrival. 'Every day he mounted and moved to another monastery, where he indulged his savagery.' His men took money, ransacked cells, tore down bells, destroyed equipment, and slaughtered cattle.
The painting reflects Repin's impressions from the artistic and social life of Montmartre in Paris. He described the concept in a letter to the art critic Vladimir Stasov : "The naive and inexperienced Sadko is enchanted, but keeps his promise to the holy man to choose the girl who comes last, the Russian peasant girl.