The vandal who tore the picture of Repin in the Tretyakov gallery, were sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison
The Zamoskvoretsky court of the capital of Russia has pronounced a Sentence to Igor Podporin that about a year ago I damaged the famous painting of Ilya Repin "Ivan the terrible and his son Ivan" in the Tretyakov gallery, reports journalist Last news .
The time man spent in prison, he read in time legally on the day and a half.
The prosecution asked him 3 years in a General regime colony, and the maximum Podporina threatened six years in prison.
Authorized gallery suggest to file another suit in civil proceedings, when the experts will evaluate the full Price of the restoration.
Vandal explained his actions by saying that Ivan the terrible, in his vision, canonized, and the picture offends the feelings of believers and is historically unreliable. In reality, the question of canonization of the monarch is controversial.
Podporin guilty that he ruined the canvas, but does not believe that it is of special cultural value. A psychiatric examination found him sane.
The verdict until not entered into force and has the ability to be appealed within ten days.
the incident occurred on the evening of 25 may 2018, before the closing of the Tretyakov gallery. Podporin broke in the empty room with paintings of Repin and banged on a glass canvas metal bar fence.
The picture painted by the artist at the end of the nineteenth century caused serious destruction: the canvas is torn in three places in the Central part of the figure of the Prince, from glass heavily damaged the author's art frame. The most valuable part of the canvas the images of the faces and hands of the king and the Prince is not damaged.
currently the painting is being restored. This gallery has purchased special equipment - a large format table-transformer, designed For major jobs.
attack Podporina - not the first. In 1913, the picture was even more serious destruction: the young believer Abram Balashov slashed the Central part of the canvas and had to completely rebuild the images of the faces of both characters.
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