Tsar Ivan IV clutches his dying son on a blood-stained carpet, pressing a hand to the head wound he has just dealt him in a fit of rage. Repin, shaken by the assassination of Alexander II and the executions that followed, used the painter Grigoriy Myasoyedov and the writer Vsevolod Garshin as models. The canvas has been attacked twice, in 1913 and 2018.
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The heavy staff Ivan struck with lies on the floor beside them. A single tear runs down the tsarevich's cheek.
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