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Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan on 16 November 1581 [a] is a painting by Russian realist artist Ilya Repin made between 1883 and 1885. It depicts the grief-stricken Russian tsar Ivan the Terrible cradling his dying son, the Tsarevich Ivan Ivanovich, shortly after Ivan the Terrible had dealt a fatal blow to his son's head in a fit of anger.
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.
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According to Tolstoy, the action of drama takes place in 1584, the year of Ioann's death. Yet, Ivan's murdering his son, the abdication, the siege of Pskov, the fire in Aleksandrovskaya sloboda all relate to the second half of 1581. Tolstoy was improvising a lot when it came to motives and undercurrents, occasionally creating links between ...
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.
Thus, in April 1672, by order of the Tsar, two chess boards "written on gold with coloured paints" [43] were sent to the chambers of the Tsar's son, Tsarevich Fedor. It is known that in 1676 the painter Bogdan Saltanov painted with colours, gold and silver "small chessboards" for the four-year-old younger son of the tsar — tsarevich Peter ...
William Shakespeare (c. 23 [a] April 1564 – 23 April 1616) [b] was an English playwright, poet and actor.He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.