Did Tsar Ivan IV really kill his heir, as depicted in the chilling painting ‘Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan’?

Ilya Repin’s 1885 painting “Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan” depicts Ivan IV, the first Russian Tsar, cradling his dying son after striking him down, but historians are divided over whether this murder ever actually took place.

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