Tretyakov Gallery’s Conservators Talk About Repairing Slashed Portrait Of Ivan The Terrible And His Son

Last May, a drunken nationalist attacked Ilya Repin’s famous painting of the crazed tsar cradling the body of the son he just murdered. “The good news is that the specialists at the museum believe that they can fully restore the painting. The bad news is that it will take years.” – The Moscow Times