The prosecutor asked for three years in prison for the person who damaged Repin’s painting “Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan”

In the Zamoskvoretsky Court of Moscow, during the debate, the state prosecutor requested three years in a general regime colony for Igor Podporin, who damaged the canvas of the painting by artist Ilya Repin “Ivan the Terrible and his son Ivan on November 16, 1581,” reports . RIA Novosti

Podporin is accused under Part 2 of Article 243 of the Criminal Code (damage to particularly valuable objects of cultural heritage).

In May 2018, Podporin used a metal fence post to break the glass protecting the canvas. As a result, the canvas was torn in three places, but the images of the faces and hands of the Tsar and Tsarevich were not damaged, the gallery noted. Podporin then said that he was drunk at the time of the incident. “I came to look at her. At eight in the evening I went to the buffet, drank a hundred grams of vodka and something... I don’t drink vodka, so I got screwed,” the man said in the recording MIA . After being detained, he was arrested.

At first, the damage to the painting was estimated at half a million rubles, but then the case materials already stated that it was at least 30 million.

In January 2019, a visitor stole Arkhip Kuindzhi’s painting “Ai-Petri” from the Tretyakov Gallery. Crimea". The kidnapper turned out to be a businessman from Crimea Denis Chuprikov. He said he stole the painting to pay off his debts. Chuprikov was accused of stealing an item of special value (Article 164 of the Criminal Code) and was also sent to a pre-trial detention center. After this theft, the Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky reprimanded the general director of the gallery Zelfira Tregulova due to violations of the instructions for recording and storing museum valuables and the order on the protection of cultural institutions.