Why in updated version Museum rules mention a tour group consisting of one person.
“What confuses many people about our rules is that we do not allow unregistered excursions even for one person. This is a forced measure - there are people who do not hesitate to catch visitors by the sleeve as they walk down the street towards the entrance to the Gallery and offer just such a “private” excursion for one or two people. And in the halls, when asked by museum employees, they answer that they are not giving a tour, but are simply communicating with friends,” the press service reported and noted that gallery employees have sufficient competence to distinguish a group of friends from persons engaged in illegal commercial activities.
Employees of the Tretyakov Gallery began to expel groups of people from the museum who were simply talking to each other, commenting on the paintings they saw. Meduza talks about several such cases.
The Tretyakov Gallery is actively fighting against so-called illegal excursions. On June 15, historians from Moscow State University Oleg Airapetov, Maxim Shevchenko and Fyodor Gaida and several graduate students and students who came to the exhibition of the artist Vasily Vereshchagin were approached by a security guard with the words “excursions without accreditation are prohibited.” Visitors responded that they did not conduct excursions, but simply shared their impressions of the paintings with each other. They tried to find out from the gallery employee what the excursion was, but the guard avoided answering, saying only that it was forbidden to talk loudly in the museum. After this, the group began to whisper.
At the exit they were met by a senior lieutenant of the Ministry of Emergency Situations and a museum employee, who tried to prove to them that their actions were illegal. The historians were told that if a group of one to 20 people enters the gallery, they are required to request permission from the museum according to email address Tretyakov Gallery. There was no answer to the question of what a one-person excursion was. This whole story is told in open letter to the Ministry of Culture. As a result, on June 19, the director of the Department of Museums, Yuri Evtyukhin, sent a letter general director Tretyakov Gallery to Zelfira Tregulova with a request to look into this situation.
Second similar case in the Tretyakov Gallery happened June 20 with Tim Ilyasov, editor-in-chief of Fashionograph magazine. He and five friends came to the museum building on Lavrushinsky Lane and commented on the elements of clothing in the paintings. The reaction to his explanations was the indignation of museum staff, who noted that excursions could only be conducted by full-time museum guides. In response to Ilyasov’s words that he does not conduct excursions and only communicates with his friends, the employees replied: “We don’t know anything, it’s impossible.” Then Ilyasov was asked to give him the badge of a guest guide, about whom he had never heard anything before.
Same request presented and a Facebook user with the nickname Tnargime Rǝnni (in other social networks he is registered under the nickname Innər Emigrant) at the same Vereshchagin exhibition on July 2. He, like the rest of the victims, simply talked with friends, telling “far from art” friends the biography of the artist. The user noted that on the Tretyakov Gallery website, the regulations on excursion services do not say what exactly is meant by the word “excursion”.
Deputy Director of the Tretyakov Gallery Marina Elzesser explained that from May 15, 2018, a new rule has been in effect at the museum. According to it, a person telling a group of people information about a painting must notify the gallery in advance of his intention and receive a “guest guide” badge. Moreover, for such an “excursion” you need to pay 7.5 thousand rubles if the group size does not exceed five people, and 25 thousand rubles for a group of up to 20 people. She added that such a measure was taken as part of the fight against “illegal excursions.” According to her, guests often appear at the Tretyakov Gallery and voluntarily tell a group of people incorrect information about works of art.
Answering a question specifically about the case of historians from Moscow State University, Elsaesser explained: a study of recordings from video surveillance cameras showed that Moscow State University teachers “stood in a close-knit group and told their students about the paintings.” That is why the management decided that a group of people conduct a lesson, for which, according to the new museum regulations, it is necessary to pay 7.5 thousand rubles.
However, Afisha Daily found an inconsistency in Elsaesser’s words: the provision on issuing permission to conduct training session in Tretyakovskaya really exists, but in New Tretyakov Gallery on Krymsky Val, where Vereshchagin’s exhibition is being held, the class is held free of charge, and not for a fee. In the gallery on Lavrushinsky Lane, the ticket price for a group of no more than 20 people is 5,310 rubles.
Museum visitors met such innovations with disapproval. There were a lot of angry comments under the Tnargime Rǝnni Facebook post. Some users noted the general inappropriate behavior of Tretyakov employees, others spoke about similar cases in Pushkin Museum, St. Basil's Cathedral and Alexander Nevsky Lavra. However, many noted that the participants in the incident simply had a bad shift and no one kicked other people in similar situations out of the exhibition.
The Tretyakov Gallery almost lost one of its masterpieces. Repin's painting, popularly known as “Ivan the Terrible Kills His Son,” will have to be restored. A visitor tried to destroy it; during interrogation, he said that he drank vodka and was outraged by the canvas. This attempt is not the first.
Ilya Repin’s painting “Ivan the Terrible and his son Ivan” was on the wall, and the attacker hit the painting with a fence post. Now the pictures have been removed from the exhibition; it is in a restoration workshop. The hall is closed to visitors.
The attack took place in the evening, just before the Tretyakov Gallery closed. Glass that maintained the necessary climate to preserve the masterpiece, but did not protect against impacts.
The vandal was detained by the capital's police. The man is 37 years old, he came from Voronezh. At first information appeared that he tried to destroy the canvas because of the historical untruth of the image, allegedly he did not agree with the plot where Ivan the Terrible inflicts death blow son. But it turned out that alcohol was to blame for everything. The explanations of the riotous guest of the capital are also a masterpiece.
“I went, I came to look at her. I came in at eight in the evening and was about to go to the buffet. I drank 100 grams of vodka. I don’t drink vodka, so something hit me,” said the detainee.
“Are you aware of your actions?” the law enforcement officers asked.
“Yes,” he replied.
And for this act the man faces three years in prison. A criminal case has been opened under the article “Destruction or damage to objects cultural heritage" The detainee was taken to the Zamoskvoretsky court in Moscow, where a preventive measure must be chosen for him. And in the Tretyakov Gallery they are deciding how they will save one of the most famous masterpieces Russia. The general director of the gallery, Zelfira Tregulova, was on a business trip abroad at the time of the incident and is urgently returning to Moscow. She receives all information remotely
“The painting was seriously damaged. The canvas is torn in three places in the central part of the work on the figure of the prince. The original art frame was severely damaged by falling glass. By serendipity the most valuable things - the images of the faces and hands of the king and prince - were not damaged. Restorers of the Tretyakov Gallery immediately begin studying the consequences of the blows and developing a consistent program for restoring the work. Among the priority actions is holding an expanded restoration council with the invitation of leading experts from the country,” the gallery’s press service said in a statement.
According to preliminary estimates, the damage from the vandal's actions was estimated at half a million rubles. It is unclear how long the recovery will take. Sometimes such work takes several years.
“Restorers simply connect the canvas joint to joint and then, and then, using technology, they add soil and a picturesque restoration occurs. That is, they apply almost invisible tints that practically do not differ from the original ones,” said restorer Igor Borodin.
More than a hundred years ago, faces were actually recreated from scratch in the same painting. Then Repin himself did it, after the 29-year-old icon painter and Old Believer Abram Balashov cut the canvas. One of the gallery keepers could not bear the blow and committed suicide. Repin himself said that his painting is terrifying and inexplicably affects the psyche. The master had to stop working on the painting - he turned away and hid the canvas. Psychologists explain this seemingly mystical series of shocks with the so-called Stendhal syndrome, when art so greatly outrages, amazes and, in the literal sense, drives you crazy.
“This occurs when people find themselves near some very strong works art. Hallucinations or changes in consciousness may occur, and sometimes people destroy these objects,” noted psychologist Alexander Tkhostov.
Attacks on especially expressive masterpieces, unfortunately, happen quite often. One of the most known cases, when in 1985 in the Hermitage a mentally unstable man was doused with sulfuric acid and cut with a knife famous painting Rembrandt "Danae". Restorers worked for 12 years to preserve the masterpiece. A hole from a punch was left in the painting French painter Claude Monet is the work of a young vandal who snuck into the gallery at night.
And, of course, Leonardo da Vinci’s “La Gioconda” did not endure any kind of attacks. At the Louvre they threw stones at her and tried to throw paint on her. Some hatched a plan of attack for a long time, while others came up with it suddenly. Before or after the buffet, the man was outraged by the image, and whether he was sane has yet to be determined by law enforcement officers. Tomorrow the 30th hall of the Tretyakov Gallery will be open, but so far without a masterpiece.
The police detained a man who the day before damaged Ilya Repin's painting "Ivan the Terrible Kills His Son" in the Tretyakov Gallery. This was reported by the official representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation Irina Volk.
The night before on Friday, the police received a message from a security officer at the State Tretyakov Gallery about damage to the painting.
Police officers who arrived at the scene detained a citizen who had broken the glass of a painting with a metal fence post and damaged the canvas, Volk said.
The painting was seriously damaged. The canvas is torn in three places in the central part of the work on the figure of the prince. The original art frame was severely damaged by falling glass.
According to the press service of the Tretyakov Gallery, by a lucky coincidence, the most valuable things - the images of the faces and hands of the Tsar and Tsarevich - were not damaged. Upon completion of the initial operational and investigative activities, museum restorers carried out urgent emergency work. Glass shards were removed, the painting and frame were dismantled, after which the painting was removed from permanent exhibition and moved to the museum's restoration workshop.
According to Irina Volk, according to this fact a criminal case has been initiated under Part 1 of Article 243 of the Criminal Code “Destruction or damage to cultural heritage sites (historical and cultural monuments) of peoples Russian Federation included in a single state register objects of cultural heritage (historical and cultural monuments) of the peoples of the Russian Federation, identified objects of cultural heritage, natural complexes, objects taken under state protection, or cultural values)".
This article provides for liability ranging from a fine of up to 3 million rubles to imprisonment for up to 3 years.
The Tretyakov Gallery has released an official statement regarding the painting “Ivan the Terrible and his son Ivan November 16, 1581.”
It notes that on May 25, 2018 at 20:55, right before the museum closed, a man from among the last visitors broke into the already empty I. E. Repin hall through a group of Tretyakov Gallery employees who were conducting a routine inspection of the halls before their closure, and struck the glass panel of the painting “Ivan the Terrible and his son Ivan...” several blows with a metal fence post. The painting suffered serious damage: as a result of the blows, the thick glass that protected the work from fluctuations in temperature and humidity conditions was broken. The canvas is torn in three places in the central part of the work on the figure of the prince. The original art frame was severely damaged by falling glass. By a lucky coincidence, the most valuable things - the images of the faces and hands of the Tsar and Tsarevich - were not damaged.
Museum caretakers, together with security officers from the Tretyakov Gallery, neutralized the vandal, detained and handed over law enforcement agencies. Investigations are underway with him.
The General Director of the Tretyakov Gallery is on a business trip abroad, but has operational information, is constantly in contact with museum employees by phone, and reports what is happening to the leadership of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation.
To take urgent measures to save the painting, the chief curator, restorers, the management of the museum's security service, as well as employees of a specialized company for working with works of art arrived at the scene.
After the initial operational and investigative measures, the museum restorers carried out urgent emergency work: they removed glass fragments, dismantled the painting and frame, after which the work was removed from the permanent exhibition and transferred to the museum’s restoration workshop.
Restorers of the Tretyakov Gallery immediately begin studying the consequences of the blows and developing a consistent program for restoring the work. Among the priority actions is holding an expanded restoration council with the invitation of the country's leading specialists.
A pitching session will be held especially for the press on Monday at 2 p.m., where museum employees will tell how the restoration of the painting will take place.
Shocking incident at the Tretyakov Gallery: the gallery almost lost famous masterpiece. Repin’s painting, popularly known as “Ivan the Terrible Kills His Son,” was attempted to be destroyed by one of the visitors. It happened in the evening, before closing. The canvas is now being saved by restorers, and the police are trying to understand what was in the mind of the attacker. The power of art, apparently, has nothing to do with it - the detainee himself blames vodka for everything.
Ilya Repin’s painting “Ivan the Terrible and his son Ivan” was on the wall, and the attacker hit the painting with a fence post. Now the pictures have been removed from the exhibition; it is in a restoration workshop. The hall is closed to visitors.
The attack took place in the evening, just before the Tretyakov Gallery closed. Glass that maintained the necessary climate to preserve the masterpiece, but did not protect against impacts.
The vandal was detained by the capital's police. The man is 37 years old, he came from Voronezh. At first, information appeared that he tried to destroy the painting because of the historical untruth of the image, allegedly he did not agree with the plot where Ivan the Terrible deals a fatal blow to his son. It was fiction Repina. But it turned out that alcohol was to blame for everything. The explanations of the riotous guest of the capital are also a masterpiece.
“I went, I came to look at her. I came in at eight in the evening and was about to go to the buffet. I drank 100 grams of vodka. I don’t drink vodka, so something hit me,” said the detainee.
“Are you aware of your actions?” the law enforcement officers asked.
“Yes,” he replied.
And for this act the man faces three years in prison. A criminal case has been opened under the article “Destruction or damage to cultural heritage objects.” The detainee was taken to the Zamoskvoretsky court in Moscow, where a preventive measure must be chosen for him. And the Tretyakov Gallery is deciding how they will save one of the most famous masterpieces in Russia. The general director of the gallery, Zelfira Tregulova, was on a business trip abroad at the time of the incident and is urgently returning to Moscow. She receives all information remotely.
“The painting was seriously damaged. The canvas is torn in three places in the central part of the work on the figure of the prince. The original art frame was severely damaged by falling glass. By a lucky coincidence, the most valuable things - the images of the faces and hands of the Tsar and Tsarevich - were not damaged. Restorers of the Tretyakov Gallery immediately begin studying the consequences of the blows and developing a consistent program for restoring the work. Among the priority actions is holding an expanded restoration council with the invitation of leading experts from the country,” the gallery’s press service said in a statement.
In addition to holes, experts also count cuts from broken glass. It is unclear how long the recovery will take. Sometimes such work takes several years.
“Restorers simply connect the canvas joint to joint and then, and then, using technology, they add soil and a picturesque restoration occurs. That is, almost invisible tints are applied that practically do not differ from the original ones,” said restorer Igor Borodin.
More than a hundred years ago, faces were actually recreated from scratch in the same painting. Old Believer Abram Balashov cut the canvas. One of the gallery keepers could not bear such a blow and committed suicide. Repin himself said that his painting is terrifying and inexplicably affects the psyche. The master had to stop working on the masterpiece - he turned away and hid the canvas.
Such attacks, unfortunately, happen quite often. In 1985, in the Hermitage, a mentally unstable man doused Rembrandt’s famous painting “Danae” with sulfuric acid and cut it with a knife. Restorers worked for 12 years to restore the masterpiece. And, of course, she didn’t endure any kind of attacks famous painting Leonardo da Vinci "La Gioconda". At the Louvre they threw stones at her and tried to throw paint on her. Whether the attacker of Repin's painting was sane remains to be established.
