• mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    19 days ago

    I have a hard time wrapping my head around the fact that Ivan the Terrible posed/modelled for the painting that depicted the evebt

    • crater2150@feddit.org
      2·
      19 days ago

      From the Wikipedia link above:

      Repin used Grigoriy Myasoyedov, his friend and fellow artist, as the model for Ivan the Terrible, and writer Vsevolod Garshin for the Tsarevich.