Man who destroys famous painting

It was one day in the early summer of 2018, and an unemployed man walked into the Tiyakov Gallery and grabbed a stick and smashed it at a famous painting: "Ivan the Terrible Kills the Son" by the famous Russian painter Repin. The painting was severely damaged.

　　The police immediately arrested the unemployed man, who claimed that he drank a lot of vodka at the "Nora Cafe" near the gallery and went to wreak havoc because he was drunk. Under current law, unemployed men can only be sentenced to up to three years in prison.

　　Destroying famous paintings will only be locked up for three years! This caused an uproar, with people protesting and calling on all businesses around the gallery to ban the sale of alcohol **.

　　On this day, Danny, the public relations manager of Tiyakov Gallery, found Zobrin, the owner of Nora Cafe, and hoped that he would stop selling wine **. Of course, the gallery would give the cafe some financial compensation.

　　Unexpectedly, Zoblin listened to Danny's words and said with a smile: "You came just in time. To be honest, I'm about to move the store near the gymnasium. I think people who go to the football must like to drink more than people who look at oil paintings."

　　Danny said: "Great idea! You're sure to make a fortune! But as far as I know, your cafe has been here for a hundred years, it's a landscape next to the Tiakov Gallery, and your family has been here for generations. Generations have made a living from this, why smash this sign?"

　　Zobrin took a sip of wine and said, "You might as well listen to me tell a story."

　　Then, Zobrin explained. More than a hundred years ago, Repin created the painting "Ivan the Terrible Kills the Son", which was regarded as a criticism of the Tsar's reign of terror after it was exhibited, and was ordered to be strictly prohibited from exhibition. In 1913, when the tsarist rule was about to collapse, the painting reappeared, but in February of the same year, a lunatic came to the Tiyakov Gallery and cut three large holes in the painting with a knife. Repin was sixty-nine years old at the time, and his heart ached after learning about this, and it took twelve years to finally restore the painting to its original appearance. Communication was underdeveloped at that time, and many people did not know about it, let alone that the director of the Tiyakov Gallery committed suicide under pressure.

　　Hearing this, Danny asked in surprise, "Is your great-grandfather the curator?"

　　Zobrin nodded and said: "My great-grandfather died because of this painting, and our family was reduced to traders, and I hated this painting for good reason. My great-grandfather also left a last word that this painting was painted by the devil holding Repin's hand, and we must find a chance to destroy it. Four generations of our family have stuck here just to find a chance to destroy this painting."

　　Danny was stunned: "That unemployed man was instructed by you?"

　　Zobrin shook his head and said, "Of course not, but he is indeed my accomplice, but he doesn't know it himself. Don't you think he's really just drunk?"

　　Danny said: "Of course, the drunkenness is just his self-defense. When the unemployed man destroyed the painting, he shouted'Ivan the Terrible didn't kill his son ', I think that's the truth, he hated this painting. Paintings that don't fit historical facts. Art may originate from history, but it's not the same thing as history. But for an uneducated drunk, he can't figure it out."

　　"Hmph," Zobrin sneered and said, "That unemployed man is not as shallow as you think."

　　Danny spread his hands and said, "If he wasn't drunk and he wasn't stupid, why would he destroy this masterpiece?"

　　"Actually, he's an Avenger like me, but my revenge took a hundred years, and he took five hundred years." Then, Zobrin told another story.

　　Five hundred years ago, Ivan the Terrible led an army to attack the Kazan Khanate. The war was extremely cruel. After Ivan the Terrible won, he killed all the Tatars in the city of Kazan. To commemorate that battle, Ivan the Terrible built Vasily's Ascension Cathedral in Moscow. After the church was built, Ivan the Terrible ordered the eyes of all the designers to be gouged out, lest they create the same exquisite buildings again...

　　One spring five hundred years later, an unemployed man came to Zobrin's shop. He ordered a glass of vodka and chatted with the boss. The unemployed man clutched a wine glass and said that his ancestors had their eyes gouged out by Ivan the Terrible. When he saw the painting "Ivan the Terrible Kills His Son", he was very angry. If he was born five hundred years ago, he must go assassinate that tyrant. These words reminded Zobrin of his great-grandfather's last words, and he suddenly woke up: the family cafe has been operating here for a hundred years, just waiting for this unemployed man to appear!

　　Zobrin told the unemployed man that this famous painting is beautifying the tyrant and destroying it, which is more meaningful than assassinating Ivan the Terrible. Everything Ivan the Terrible did back then, whether it was expanding the territory or tyrannical atrocities, has been forgotten. If it weren't for the existence of this painting, he would have been like the hundreds of thousands of anonymous Tatars he slaughtered. Like the people, completely forgotten. You know, being forgotten is a sadder thing than death. If anyone can destroy this famous painting, he will definitely be remembered by the world.

　　The unemployed man was about to do it after listening. Zobrin gave him two pieces of advice: first, drink more vodka to increase his courage and strength; second, let others believe that what he hated was not the painting, but Ivan the Terrible himself.

　　Zobrin showed a smug smile and said, "The unemployed man really did this, and he succeeded."

Danny pondered for two minutes, picked up his glass and drank it, saying, "It seems that there is never anything for no reason in this world, everything is arranged by fate. But in any case, Repin's painting is indeed A masterpiece that should not be destroyed..."

　　A month later, Zobrin and the unemployed man were sentenced to ten years in prison for conspiring to destroy cultural relics.

　　In court, Zobrin learned that Danny's family background was not simple. Danny's great-grandfather was one of the prototypes of the painting "Tracker on the Volga River" and had long received financial support from the painter himself.

　　The author of the painting "Tracker on the Volga" is the famous painter Repin.