The Tretyakov Gallery wants to recover 20 million rubles for the cost of restoration from Repin, who damaged the painting.
The Tretyakov Gallery intends to recover from Igor Podporin, who damaged the painting by the artist Ilya Repin "Ivan the Terrible and his son Ivan", about 20 million rubles - this is the cost of restoring the canvas. It is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to legal adviser Yevgeny Melnikov. “In theory, we should file a lawsuit to reimburse the cost of restoration, but the documents, estimates of work, and so on are not yet ready,” he said in the Zamoskvoretsky Court of Moscow.