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Jan 27, 2017 · Ivan IV's Personal Mythology of Kingship - Volume 52 Issue 4. 1. For instance, during the sack of Novgorod, Ivan was said to have hosted the Archbishop Pimen's “marriage” to a mare and to have forced him to ride her backwards to Moscow with his legs tied together, strumming on the bagpipes and playing on the zither (the instruments of the skomorokhi), where he was to enter his name in the ...
- “An Evil Act Will Spawn An Evil Son”
- Building The Third Rome
- The Oprichnina
- War Is Over
On August 25, 1530, Vasili III gazed out the window of his palace as a terrific storm battered Moscow. It was twenty years since the Grand Prince had come to the throne, twenty long years in which he’d tried fruitlessly for an heir. Now, nearing the end of his life, his desperation had got the better of him. He’d divorced his first wife and remarri...
On December 29, 1543, a group of guards marched into the quarters of one of the cruelest boyars in Muscovy. Saying they were following the Grand Prince’s orders, the guards arrested the man, dragged him away…and fed him alive to a pack of wild dogs. It was the Middle Ages equivalent of walking into the prison yard and punching the biggest, meanest ...
Shortly after, Ivan divided his nation into two parts: the Zemschina and the Oprichnina. The Zemschina was where things carried on as before, almost unchanged. The Oprichnina was where Ivan’s darkest impulses came out to play. The Oprichnina covered about a third of Muscovy’s territory, but it wasn’t as simple as drawing a line on a map. Ivan was a...
The Oprichnina’s end came suddenly, in spring, 1571. There were rumors that a Crimean Tartar force was marching toward Moscow, but Ivan barely bothered to prepare. After all, his Oprichniki spies had told him the force was a few thousand strong at best. In fact, the advancing army contained over 120,000soldiers. By the time Ivan got the news, any c...
In the name of community, Ivan's mythology of kingship jus- tified a form of government in which the sovereign was completely identified with the state, was an end in himself and his own judge. Ivan's inner dynamic, meant to heal both tsar and people, in fact set. in motion a vicious cycle of escalating violence.
The pretender entered Moscow in triumph, was crowned, and married Maryna Mniszchówna. Russia - Ivan IV, Tsardom, Expansion: Vasily had been able to appoint a regency council composed of his most trusted advisers and headed by his wife Yelena, but the grievances created by his limitation of landholders’ immunities and his antiboyar policies ...
Ivan IV (1530–1584) Ivan IV (1530–1584), tsar of Russia, 1533–1584. Known as Ivan the Terrible, Ivan IV was the first Russian sovereign to be crowned tsar and to hold tsar as his official title in addition to the traditional title of grand duke of Moscow. The reign of Ivan IV was the culmination of Russian historical developments that ...
May 23, 2018 · Ivan IV (the Terrible) (1530–84) Grand Duke of Moscow (1533–84) and tsar of Russia. Ivan was crowned as tsar in 1547 and married Anastasia, a Romanov. At first, he was an able and progressive ruler, reforming law and government. By annexing the Tatar states of Kazan and Astrakhan, he gained control of the Volga River.
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Ivan Vasil’evich, the future Ivan IV ‘the Terrible’ (Groznyi), was born into the family of Grand Prince Vasilii III of Moscow, the head of the ruling branch of the Riurikid dynasty, on 25 August 1530. Ivan’s mother was Elena Glinskaia, the niece of Prince Mikhail L’vovich Glinskii, who came to serve Vasilii III from Lithuania in 1508.
