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| | REPIN: IVAN THE TERRIBLE |
 | | This famous work of Repin, Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan: November 16, 1581, was painted in 1885. |
 | | Ivan the Terrible's murder of his own son seemed to be the most fitting pretext to express the artist's rejection of all violence and bloodshed. |
 | | And the son cannot any longer control the pupil of his eye; he breathes heavily, feeling the grief of his father, his horror, his shriek, and he, like a baby, wishes to smile at him as if to say: "It's nothing, father, do not be afraid". |
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