Ilya Repin insulted the feelings of believers ... Bashny.Net

The group of public figures and historians took up arms against the artist Ilya Repin. The painting "Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan on November 16, 1581," they need to remove from the Tretyakov Gallery, because it "offends the patriotic feelings of the Russian people," reports "NTV".





The request to remove the exposure of one of the most famous paintings of the Tretyakov public figures to the Minister of Culture Vladimir Medina and the director of Gallery Irina Lebedeva.

From the appeal: "In a remarkable collection of the gallery there are a number of paintings containing slander against the Russian people, in the Russian state, on Russian pious kings and queens. That is clearly not the paintings in this collection of masterpieces of Russian paintings. First of all, it is a vile, slanderous and false in both its plot and its picturesque playback picture Repin "Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan on November 16, 1581" ».

The story of the murder of his son Ivan the Terrible authors of the appeal called a smear. According to them, the picture is a "blatant slander not only king John, but also on the Russian Orthodox autocracy and the entire Russian people».

From the reference: "Modern historical scholarship has been firmly established that the first Russian Tsar Ivan did not kill his son. There are no reliable information about it in the original sources of the XVI century ... Version "synoubiystva" appears only as a hearing - with the prefix "glagolyut netsyi", in later written sources already XVII century, created during or after the Time of Troubles, and based on notes overt enemies of Russia ».

It seems that the authors of the letter are not too like the artist Repin in general. They remind us that "blessed in tsarist times," the artist imbued with revolutionary ideas and godless, and began to treat with disdain to the Russian Orthodox tradition. As an example they cite another picture Repin - "Religious Procession in Kursk Province».

From the appeal: "But if in the painting" Religious Procession in Kursk Province ", he expressed opinion revolutionaries and Russophobes the Orthodox faith, the Russian clergy, on the tradition of religious processions in Russia, the painting" Ivan the Terrible and his son Ivan on November 16 1581 "is outright slander not only king John, but also on the Russian Orthodox autocracy and the entire Russian people ».

In connection with all this, historians and community activists asked Medina and Lebedev "before the final settlement of the question of the fate of the painting" to remove it from the Tretyakov Gallery to the store.

The first letter was signed by the entrepreneur, the owner of the agricultural holding "Russian milk" Vasily Boiko-Veliky, who is also chairman of the organizing committee of the movement "Holy Russia." The appeal posted on its official website. Among the other signatories: archpriest Aleksei Averyanov, a history professor from the University of St. Petersburg Igor Froyanov, social activist Leonid Bolotin, head of the publishing house "Royal house" Ksenia Lebedeva and lawyer Alexei Averyanov.

Original article: NTV

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