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Jan 27, 2017 · Stressing that the paranoid has the ability to function completely rationally and normally in spheres not affected by his delusional system, Richard Hellie posited Ivan's use of the ideology of sacred kingship elaborated under the Metropolitan Macarius to justify his actions to himself (ibid., 217). 10.
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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...
May 23, 2018 · Ivan IV (1530-1584), known as Ivan the Terrible, was the first Russian sovereign to be crowned czar and to hold czar as his official title in addition to the traditional title of grand duke of Moscow.
Ivan established his famous oprichnina, an aggregate of territory separated from the rest of the realm and put under his immediate control as crown land, in 1564; this was the device through which he expressed his rejection of the established government.
In order to understand how Ivan IV arrived at his mythology of kingship, it is important to remember that ritualized behavior, which saturated the life of a tsar, was a "reactualization" of Christian myth,
Ivan IV Vasilyevich (Russian: Иван IV Васильевич; 25 August 1530 – 28 March [O.S. 18 March] 1584), commonly known as Ivan the Terrible, was Grand Prince of Moscow and all Russia from 1533 to 1547, and the first Tsar and Grand Prince of all Russia from 1547 until his death in 1584.
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Jan 23, 2011 · Ivan wanted something that was unlike anything that had preceded it; he reformed and changed Russia in an attempt to unite it under the supreme sovereignty of an absolute Machiavellian ruler—the Tsar.
