Work by Ilya Repin torn in three places by man who become ‘overwhelmed’ after drinking in Moscow galleryOne of Russia’s most famous paintings, which depicts tsar Ivan the Terrible cradling his dying son, has been badly damaged after a man attacked it with a metal pole. Russian new agencies sited police sources saying he was a 37-year-old man from the city of Voronezh about 460km (286 miles) from Moscow. “I came to look at the painting,” the man told the police. I don’t drink vodka and became overwhelmed by something.”Some Russian media cited him as saying he had attacked the painting because he thought its depiction of Russian history was inaccurate. The canvas was also attacked in 1913 by a mentally ill man who slashed it with a knife three times.

Source: The Guardian May 27, 2018 02:03 UTC