Ivan the Terrible killed his son

Authority has a special luster and pushes the rule to matters of the utmost insanity, it may reach the matter. The father said to his son and the son kills his father, and this is evidence of what Harun al-Rashid said to his son when he threatened him if he took power and killed the king futile.
Meaning that he is ready to fight even with his son for the rule

One example is The Madness of Power, a well-known painting by a Russian artist named "Ilya Repin between 1883 and 1885."

A dazzling mixture of dread, astonishment and horror appears on the plate, after the Tsar of Russia killed his son Tsarevich Ivanovich when he put him on the head of his killer so that he then showed signs of remorse while embracing him.

• Evan the Terrible

Ivan the Terrible was the first tsar of Russia and was known as the Terrible, because of his domestic policy, which he followed, in which he carried out many massacres, and he became one of the cruelest rulers in the history of the world and not just a history related to Russia only

• heir to the throne

Ivan the Terrible gave birth to his first son, Ivan Ivanovich, in 1554 AD. From a young age, he accompanied his father in his military campaigns and was a witness to his massacres, especially the Novgorod massacre in 1570. Therefore, he was seen as the expected military leader.

And Ivan was not only known to his people with love, but also that his father loved him, especially after he saved his father from certain death, as he managed in one of the battles to confront an attempt to kill his father and stabbed a man who wanted to assassinate Tsar's mother

• The first nail in the coffin

With the successive defeats that Russia received in the Livonian War, Ivanovich demanded his father to hand him command of the army so that he would lift the siege of the city of Pskov, but his father strongly refused.

The struggle for power began between the son and the father. The son saw in himself the readiness to rid Russia of the shame of defeat, so the father saw that his son’s request himself was an attempt to seize power for himself and remove him.

• Ivanovic's end

In the political struggle for power between Ivan and his son. The tsar was walking into the palace one day when he saw his pregnant daughter-in-law. She wears light, inappropriate clothes. Ivan, the religious man, was very angry. And he beat her. She kept screaming and asking for help. And here Tsarevich tried to save his wife from him, but he prevented her from the tsar.

Days later, Yelena died as a result of the Tsar's beating of her. And her son died in her womb without coming out into the light

• end scene

After Jelena's death, Ivanovich resented and hated his father and blamed him for Jelena's death. The speech then touched upon the shame of defeat in the war in which his father refused to lead the army during the siege of Pskov. Ivan, angry, accused his son of treason, then took his wand and hit his son on the head with it. Pride above the ground.

When Ivan the Terrible saw the scene, he fell to the ground, carried his son's body, and cried: “You killed my son! You killed my son!

• After the accident

Tsarevich died at the age of 27. His father is on his deathbed, praying and supplicating

After his death, the show's heir turns to his younger brother, Fyodor, who they think is mentally ill. With his rule, Russia began a great state of chaos.

• Ilya Repin's painting

Ilya Repin says in his memoirs that the scene of the murder was inspired by the assassination of Tsar Alexander II of Russia. Music by Nikola Rimsky-Korsakov.

Ilya completed his painting in 1885 and it is still displayed in the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow.