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6 days ago · Ivan the Terrible, Russian Ivan Grozny, byname of Ivan Vasilyevich, also called Ivan IV, (born August 25, 1530, Kolomenskoye, near Moscow [Russia]—died March 18, 1584, Moscow), grand prince of Moscow (1533–84) and the first to be proclaimed tsar of Russia (from 1547). His reign saw the completion of the construction of a centrally ...
- Carolyn Zygmont
- 2020
4 days ago · Ivan The Terrible, Part I (1944) by Sergei Eisenstein. Public domain in Russian and in USA. 1080p from BluRay
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4 days ago · Operation Barbarossa. World War II. Ivan Stepanovich Konev (born Dec. 28 [Dec. 16, Old Style], 1897, Lodeino, near Veliky Ustyug, Russia—died May 21, 1973, Moscow, Russia, U.S.S.R.) was one of the outstanding Soviet generals in World War II, who was a leader of the offensive against the Germans. Of peasant birth, Konev was drafted into the ...
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1 day ago · The 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt, also known as the August Coup, [b] was a failed attempt by hardliners of the Soviet Union 's Communist Party to forcibly seize control of the country from Mikhail Gorbachev, who was Soviet President and General Secretary of the Communist Party at the time. The coup leaders consisted of top military and ...
1 day ago · Ivan III tripled the territory of his state, ended the dominance of the Golden Horde over the Rus', renovated the Moscow Kremlin, and laid the foundations of the Russian state. Biographer Fennell concludes that his reign was "militarily glorious and economically sound," and especially points to his territorial annexations and his centralized ...
