The King told Ivan that if he could break in a wild stallion for him, he would give him his daughter’s hand in marriage. Ivan told Vasilisa about this, and she told him he must go to the blacksmith ...

During a break in one of Podporin’s hearings—the case is ongoing—his brother conveyed this spirit of historiographical fanaticism. Ivan was a “great leader,” he said. “With all of the great figures in ...

Who was the son of Ivan the Terrible? Repin’s model for the Tsarevich was the mentally ill Russian writer Vsevolod Garshin, who later committed suicide by throwing himself down a staircase.

By 1547, at the tender age of 17, Ivan was crowned Tsar, the first to hold that title in Russia. His ascension to the throne in 1547 was characterised by both political reforms and progress.

The Oprichniki by Nikolai Nevrev (1888). The painting shows the last minutes of one of the aristocratic elite taken out by Ivan IV. Wikimedia Commons. Ivan IV Vasilyevich was just a teenager when ...