Russian prosecutor asks three-year penitentiary term for man who vandalised Repin’s painting

37-12 months-historical Igor Podporin is charged with destructive the most valuable objects of cultural heritage

Ilya Repin’s painting Ivan The terrible and His Son Ivan on November sixteenth, 1581 all over restoration work. source: Tretyakov Gallery/Artguide

The prosecution asked three years in a minimal safety penal complex for Igor Podporin, the man who seriously broken Ilya Repin’s portray Ivan The awful and His Son Ivan on November sixteenth, 1581 (1885). The prosecutor said the defendant’s actions “cannot be described in any other case as barbarity. It isn't the fight for ancient justice, as Podporin himself claimed. You can not do like that whether the portray files old reality or now not. it's also no longer a criterion for picking out an artwork’s cultural cost,” Artguide studies.

A representative of the Russian Ministry of subculture testified in court docket that the painting is within the assortment of the Tretyakov Gallery, which means it is on the list of the most beneficial objects of cultural heritage.

Defendant Igor Podporin pleaded guilty to damaging an object of cultural heritage (half 1 of article 243 of the Russian crook Code), whereas investigators say his actions are labeled as destructive the most valuable objects of cultural heritage (half 2 of article 243).

A mental fitness assessment found Podporin is sane. He explains he attacked the portray because it distorts ancient statistics.

The damage to the portray is estimated at at the least 30 million rubles. The painting charge 1.044 billion rubles before the assault. The restore work may be subsidized via a Russian bank.

Moscow’s Zamoskvoretsky court left the defendant in custody unless August 14, 2019.

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