Russian man gets 2 1/2 years in jail for vandalizing painting

Russian man gets 2 1/2 years in jail for vandalizing painting | iNFOnews.ca
FILE - In this file photo taken Tuesday, May 29, 2018, A museum employee looks at the screen depicting the damage inflicted to a painting by Russian painter Ilya Repin in an attack at the Tretyakov State Gallery in Moscow, Russia. A court in Moscow on Tuesday April 30, 2019, sentenced a man to two and a half years in prison for vandalizing the famous painting by renowned Russian artist Ilya Repin. (Sergey Vedyashkin, Moscow News Agency photo via AP, File)

MOSCOW – A court in Moscow has sentenced a man to two and a half years in prison for vandalizing a famous painting by renowned Russian artist Ilya Repin.

The court on Tuesday found Igor Podporin guilty of damaging the painting, which depicts czar Ivan the Terrible cradling his dying son after striking him in a fit of rage.

The man attacked the painting with a metal stanchion at the Tretyakov Gallery in May last year. He claimed that he damaged one of the gallery’s most famous exhibits because he thinks it is historically inaccurate.

Repin’s 1885 canvas suffered several holes through it, but the faces of the czar and his son were undamaged. The restoration work is expected to take several more months.

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