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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 the elder Ivan had dealt a fatal blow to his son's head in a fit of anger.
- 199.5 cm × 254 cm (78.5 in × 100 in)
- Ilya Repin
- 1883–1885
Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan on 16 November 1581 is a painting by Russian realist artist Ilya Repin made between 1883 and 1885. The picture portrays a grief-stricken Ivan the Terrible cradling his mortally wounded son, the Tsarevich Ivan Ivanovich. The elder Ivan himself is believed to have dealt the fatal blow to his son.
- Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Oct 14, 2023 · Whilst historians have given conflicting accounts of his father's behaviour, most tend to confirm that it was he who murdered his son, probably on the 19th of November, 1581. As part of the reality of growing up in a powerful family in the 16th century, the young Ivan was regularly lined up for politically-advantageous marriages to various ...
‘Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan on 16 November 1581’. Ilya Repin/Tretyakov Gallery. It’s thought Ivan the Terrible killed his son during a family row after Ivan Jr.’s...
Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan on November 16, 1581. The painting shows Ivan the Terrible cradling his mortally wounded son, having struck him with his sceptre in a fit of rage.
- Russian
- July 24, 1844
- Chuhuiv, Russian Empire
- September 29, 1930
Jun 6, 2023 · Ivan the Terrible himself mentioned in a letter from 1581 that his son was in a severely ill state. Numerous historians suggest that the quarrel between Ivan Ivanovich and his father may have had more political undertones than familial ones. Politics.
Oil on canvas, 199.5 x 254 cm. Tretiakov Gallery, Moscow. This famous work of Repin, Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan: November 16, 1581 , was painted in 1885. Repin started thinking about the painting as early as in 1881, the year of the bloody assassination of Alexander II, when, after a concert of Rimskii-Korsakov's Sweetness of Revenge ...
