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It was the first painting to be censored in the Russian Empire
This was not the first censored painting in the Russian Empire. Tretyakov's own official history notes that Vasily Perov's 1861 "Easter Procession in a Village" had already been banned by censors decades earlier.
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The claim says Repin's Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan was the first painting censored in the Russian Empire. That is contradicted by the Tretyakov Gallery's own historical materials.
In the Gallery's official magazine, its history states that Pavel Tretyakov's collecting strategy changed when he bought Vasily Perov's "Easter Procession in a Village" (1861), "which had been banned by the censors." A separate official Tretyakov/Lavrus publication explains that Perov exhibited the finished painting in St. Petersburg and that within 24 hours it was banned by synodal censorship and removed from the exhibition.
Since Perov's painting was censored in 1861, decades before the 1885 ban on Repin's painting, Repin's work cannot accurately be described as the first painting to be censored in the Russian Empire.
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- The Tretyakov Gallery. YESTERDAY, TODAY, TOMORROW | The Tretyakov Gallery Magazine
His collecting strategies noticeably changed when he bought Vasily Perov's "Easter Procession in a Village" (1861, Tretyakov Gallery), which had been banned by the censors.
- Лаврус - Отвергнутые шедевры Вызов Павла Третьякова. Первая часть //Видео
В течение 24 часов картина была запрещена синодальной цензурой и снята с выставки. (Within 24 hours the painting was banned by synodal censorship and removed from the exhibition.)