A visitor to the Tretyakov Gallery tried to destroy a painting by Ilya Repin. “Restoration may take several years”: in the Tretyakov Gallery, a vandal damaged the painting “Ivan the Terrible and his son Ivan

Unidentified man stabbed a man at the station "Tretyakovskaya" Kalininsko-Solntsevskaya metro line, representatives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Moscow reported "Moscow" .

"Tretyakovskaya" men with stab wounds. The police are investigating the incident.", the police said.

The chapter also noted that this moment steps are taken to find the attacker.

An unknown man attacked a man at the station with a knife "Tretyakovskaya" Moscow metro. This was stated in the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the capital.

The police are currently investigating the circumstances of the incident and are looking for the perpetrator.

Earlier it became known that employees of the Russian Guard detained a man who attacked several people in the Ostankino Park area in Moscow.

At the beginning of June, the TV channel “ 360 ” that in the south of Moscow two armed men attacked the businessman.

Passenger stabbed to death at subway station "Tretyakovskaya", says " RIAMO ”.

The incident occurred in a train carriage during a conflict between two passengers.

The victim was hospitalized with a neck wound.

The victim was taken to the hospital with a stab wound.

AT this moment police are identifying the attacker with video cameras.

According to preliminary data, on the morning of September 8, the injured man had a conflict with another passenger at the transfer hub. "China town " - "Tretyakovskaya". His opponent put a knife into action.

After inflicting a knife wound, the attacker got lost in the crowd of passengers.
The victim was taken to the hospital by ambulance.
According to REN TV, citing eyewitnesses, traces of blood remained on the floor of the platform.
AT given time The police are looking for the attacker.
The circumstances of the incident are being investigated.

Became known the details of the morning incident in the subway on "Tretyakovskaya", after which a man with a wound was hospitalized in an ambulance. Eyewitnesses reported a conflict between two passengers and a pool of blood on the platform.

At first, the police received information, especially since on the platform "Tretyakovskaya" there were bloody traces, and this looks like the consequences of a knife blow.
But, as reported by RIA “ News " law enforcement source "A survey of eyewitnesses showed that no one saw the knife".
Witnesses recalled that on the finger of the hand with which the attacker hit his opponent's head, something like a brass knuckles ring or signet was put on.
The suspect in the attack is still being sought.

Eyewitnesses spoke of bloody" incident at the metro station "Tretyakovskaya" in Moscow. As transmits “Moscow speaks”, presumably, a man was hit by a mirror of a passing train.

Another eyewitness reports that police officers are at the scene of the incident.

There is no official confirmation of the information yet.

On May 26, in one of the halls of the Tretyakov Gallery, a resident of Voronezh, Igor Podporin, broke the protective glass of Ivan Repin's painting "Ivan the Terrible and his son Ivan" with a protective column. Then the man slashed the canvas three times with a knife. Cuts remained on the image of the prince's torso, the most important parts of the picture - the faces of the main characters and the hands of Ivan the Terrible - were not affected.

Podporin admitted that he was originally going to just look at the canvas, but went down to the buffet and drank vodka. Igor could not satisfy his thirst for justice with vodka. Previously, he claimed that he damaged the canvas due to "the unreliability of the historical facts depicted on the canvas."

Igor Podporin

Experts believe that the restoration of the picture should not take much time. We decided to recall two more cases and figure out what did not please the vandals and other survivors of Repin's work.

Reason one: too much blood

The incident in the Tretyakov Gallery is not the first knife wound» for a picture. Back in 1913, the icon painter Abram Balashov made an attempt on Repin's creation.

“He repeatedly visited the Tretyakov Gallery, looked at paintings, but no one suspected that he was an abnormal person, since he always behaved modestly and quite correctly. Having passed several halls, he looked at the painting “Boyar Morozova” and whispered something in front of her, and at the entrance to the hall where Repin’s painting “John the Terrible” is located, he suddenly rushed to the painting with a frantic cry, jumped over the barrier and the cord enclosing the painting , and with the words: “Enough blood” - he slashed the picture three times with a knife. All this happened so quickly that the attendant, who was watching Balashov and immediately rushed at him, did not have time to prevent a knife from hitting the picture, but only managed to disarm him when the cuts were already made.

Abram Balashov and the damaged fragment of the painting

From the "flagrant act of vandalism" the faces of both heroes of the picture suffered. Then Balashov was sent to psychiatric clinic where his father took him three weeks later. The restorer Bogoslovsky came to restore the painting. Recovery took 4 weeks.

An illustration of the restoration process in 1913

Repin's painting was accused of excessive naturalism - it was argued that, using this style to depict the terrible, the artist does not evaluate the events, but simply copies them.

Reason two: the artist slandered the king

The second time attacks on Repin's canvas began a century after the first assassination attempt. In 2013, a group of Orthodox activists turned to the Tretyakov Gallery with a demand to remove the painting from the exhibition. In addition to the gallery, the appeal was addressed to the Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation Vladimir Medinsky.

“In the wonderful collection of the gallery there are a number of paintings containing slander on the Russian people, on Russian state, on Russian pious Tsars and Tsarits. Such paintings clearly have no place in this collection of Russian pictorial masterpieces. First of all, we are talking about the vile, slanderous and false both in its plot and in its pictorial reproduction of the painting by I.E. Repin "Ivan the Terrible and his son Ivan November 16, 1581".

An excerpt from the appeal

The Tretyakov Gallery refused to comply with the demands of the activists, and its former director, Irina Lebedeva, noted that Repin is not a historian, but, above all, an artist who has the right to his own interpretation of historical events.

What will happen to those who want to "stab Repin" now?

After the incident, the Ministry of Culture and the Tretyakov Gallery asked the State Duma to toughen the punishment for damaging works of art. For Igor Podporin, who attacked the painting on May 26, Vladimir Medinsky has already demanded "the most severe punishment." Now restorers estimate the damage caused to the painting at 500 thousand rubles, and a criminal case has already been opened against Podporin. He faces a fine of up to 3 million rubles or imprisonment for up to three years.

But there is also good news.

On the evening of Friday, May 25, a visitor to the Tretyakov Gallery inflicted several blows on the glazed canvas of the painting “Ivan the Terrible and his son Ivan on November 16, 1581” with a metal fence post. The press service of the museum noted that the canvas was seriously damaged, but the most valuable elements of the painting, by a lucky chance, were not affected. According to the official representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, Irina Volk, the man who damaged the canvas was promptly detained by police officers.

“The painting has been severely damaged. The canvas is broken in three places in the central part of the work, on the figure of the prince. From falling glass. By a happy coincidence... the images of the faces and hands of the tsar and the prince were not affected, ”Interfax quoted the press service as saying.

The main curator, restorers, the management of the museum's security service, as well as employees of a specialized company that works with works of art, arrived at the scene. Immediate emergency actions were taken. Specialists removed glass fragments and dismantled the painting and frame. Then the work was transferred to the restoration workshop of the museum.

According to the press service, an expanded restoration council will be convened, where leading Russian specialists will be invited.

It's all about alcohol

Academician of the Russian Academy of Arts, Deputy Chairman of the Union of Artists of Russia Sergey Zagraevsky, in a conversation with RT, recalled that the painting “Ivan the Terrible and his son Ivan on November 16, 1581” had caused a mixed reaction in the past. In particular, the Ministry of Culture proposed to remove the work, which, according to some, discredits the image of the Russian Tsar, into the storeroom.

It was the alleged unreliability of the historical facts depicted by Repin that allegedly prompted a 37-year-old resident of the Voronezh region to commit criminal acts, TASS reports citing a law enforcement source.

According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, in relation to a man under Part 1 of Art. 243 of the Criminal Code of Russia (“Destruction or damage to objects cultural heritage"). Punishment under this article ranges from a large fine and compulsory labor to imprisonment for up to three years.

According to the detainee himself, he is aware of the gravity of his deed. The vandal explained his act by the influence of alcohol.

“I struck with a stand (blows. - RT), came to look at her (picture. — RT). At eight in the evening I went in, I already wanted to leave, went into the buffet, drank 100 g of vodka and something ... I don’t drink vodka, that’s covered, ”the man said.

"Restoration is like medicine"

The restoration of the painting will take from a month to a year, art historian and art restorer Yuri Langleben said in a conversation with RT.

“The Tretyakov Gallery has a very strong restoration department. In particular, there is a restoration department oil painting, there are specialists. If their qualifications are not enough, then, by decision of the restoration council, some more powerful forces. But I think that they can do it on their own,” said the art historian.

According to him, the Moscow museum has all the equipment necessary for holding restoration work. The expert stressed that experts are trying to use materials similar to those used by the author of the work.

“All methods proposed by restorers must be approved by the restoration council. Maybe, as in medicine, there are several options. Each professor has his own approach, when a council meets, one physician offers one course of treatment, and the second - another. The same is true for restoration. There are several approaches, and from them the optimal one is chosen, which is less traumatic. The same principle as in medicine: do no harm, ”concluded Langleben.

"Attack after a century"

Meanwhile, Sergei Zagraevsky noted that this was the second case of an attack on a painting by Ilya Repin - the first occurred more than 100 years ago. Then the canvas was cut with a knife for ideological reasons, and the artist-painter Georgy Khruslov, curator of the Tretyakov Gallery, committed suicide after the news of the damage to the work.

“This painting entered the history of Russian art as the first canvas to be attacked. This happened in 1913, when a certain Old Believer, for ideological reasons (they say, the Russian Tsar is shown this way), cut the picture with a knife in several places. Then there was no glass, and the picture was very seriously damaged. The faces of the king and prince were badly damaged. The restoration went on for many years. So now this is the second case, ”the expert said.

According to him, it is necessary to establish the degree of damage caused to the painting in order to more accurately determine the timing of the restoration, which can stretch for several years.

“There is a lot of work to be done. Perhaps we will not see this picture for several years if it is decided that a comprehensive restoration should be done. Since the canvas has been torn, in any case, quite painstaking work remains to be done to stitch it together, as well as to restore the paint layer, ”the interlocutor explained.

The painting "Ivan the Terrible and his son Ivan on November 16, 1581" (also known as "Ivan the Terrible kills his son") was painted by Ilya Repin in 1885. The canvas depicts the famous episode from the life of the king, when he, according to one version, in a fit of anger inflicted death blow to his son, Tsarevich Ivan.

The Tretyakov Gallery almost lost one of its masterpieces. Repin's painting, popularly known as "Ivan the Terrible kills his son", will have to be restored. A visitor tried to destroy it, who, during interrogation, said that he had drunk vodka, and the canvas outraged him. This attack is not the first.

The canvas by Ilya Repin "Ivan the Terrible and his son Ivan" was on the wall, and the attacker hit the painting with a fence post. Now the pictures have been removed from the exhibition, it is in the restoration workshop. The hall is closed to visitors.

The attack took place in the evening, just before the closing of the Tretyakov Gallery. Glass that maintained the right climate to preserve the masterpiece, but did not protect against impacts.

The vandal was detained by the Metropolitan Police. The man is 37 years old, he came from Voronezh. First, information appeared that he was trying to destroy the canvas because of the historical untruth of the image, allegedly he does not agree with the plot where Ivan the Terrible inflicts a mortal blow on his son. But it turned out that alcohol was to blame. The explanations of the roaming guest of the capital are also a masterpiece.

“I went, I came to look at her. At eight in the evening I went in, I already wanted to go to the buffet. I drank 100 grams of vodka. I don’t drink vodka, so something has covered it,” the detainee said.

“Are you aware of your act?” the law enforcement officers asked.

"Yes," he replied.

And for this act, the man faces three years in prison. A criminal case has been opened under the article “Destruction or damage to cultural heritage sites”. The detainee was taken to the Zamoskvoretsky Court of Moscow, where he should choose a measure of restraint. And in the Tretyakov Gallery they decide how they will save one of the most famous masterpieces Russia. The general director of the gallery, Zelfira Tregulova, was on a business trip abroad during the incident and is urgently returning to Moscow. All information is received remotely.

“The painting has been severely damaged. The canvas is broken in three places in the central part of the work on the figure of the prince. The author's artistic frame was badly damaged by the fall of the glass. By a happy coincidence, the most valuable thing - the images of the faces and hands of the king and prince - were not affected. The restorers of the Tretyakov Gallery immediately begin to study the consequences of the strikes and develop a consistent program to restore the work. Among the priority actions is the holding of an expanded restoration council with the invitation of the country's leading specialists, ”the gallery’s press service said in a statement.

According to preliminary estimates, the damage from the actions of the vandal was estimated at half a million rubles. How long the recovery will take is unclear. Sometimes such work takes several years.

“The restorers simply join the canvas butt-to-butt and further, and further, according to the technology, the ground is brought in and a picturesque restoration takes place. That is, they apply almost invisible tinting, which practically does not cast off from the author's ones, ”said restorer Igor Borodin.

More than a hundred years ago, in the same picture, faces were actually recreated anew. Then Repin himself did it, after the 29-year-old Old Believer icon painter Abram Balashov cut the canvas. The blow could not endure one of the curators of the gallery and committed suicide. Repin himself said that his canvas is terrifying and inexplicably affects the psyche. The master had to stop working on the picture - he turned away, hid the canvas. Psychologists explain this seemingly mystical series of shocks by the so-called Stendhal syndrome, when art so outrages, strikes and, in literally, drives you crazy.

“It occurs when people are near any very strong works of art. Hallucinations or changes in consciousness can occur, sometimes people destroy these objects, ”said psychologist Alexander Tkhostov.

Attacks on particularly expressive masterpieces, unfortunately, are not uncommon. One of the most known cases when in 1985 in the Hermitage a mentally unbalanced man doused with sulfuric acid and cut with a knife famous painting Rembrandt "Danae". Restorers worked for 12 years to save the masterpiece. A punch hole was left in the painting French painter Claude Monet is the work of a young vandal who made his way into the gallery at night.

And, of course, what kind of attacks did not endure the "La Gioconda" by Leonardo da Vinci. In the Louvre, they threw stones at her, tried to pour paint over her. Some of them hatched a plan of attack for a long time, while others suddenly came up with it. Before or after the buffet, the man was outraged by the image, and whether he was sane has yet to be established by law enforcement officers. Tomorrow the 30th hall of the Tretyakov Gallery will be opened, but so far without a masterpiece.