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Ivan the Terrible

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Ivan the Terrible: see Ivan IV Ivan IV or Ivan the Terrible, 1530–84, grand duke of Moscow (1533–84), the first Russian ruler to assume formally the title of czar.
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Ivan IV

 Russian Ivan Vasilyevich known as Ivan the Terrible

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Ivan IV, icon, late 16th century; in the National Museum, Copenhagen.
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(born Aug. 25, 1530, Kolomenskoye, near Moscow—died March 18, 1584, Moscow) Grand prince of Moscow (1533–84) and first tsar of Russia (1547–84). Crowned tsar in 1547 after a long regency (1533–46), he embarked on wide-ranging reforms, including a centralized administration, church councils that systematized the church's affairs, and the first national assembly (1549). He also instituted reforms to limit the powers of the boyars. After conquering Kazan (1552) and Astrakhan (1556), he engaged in an unsuccessful war to control Livonia, fighting against Sweden and Poland (1558–83). After the defeat and the suspected treason of several Russian boyars, Ivan formed an oprichnina, a territory separate from the rest of the state and under his personal control. With a large bodyguard, he withdrew into his own entourage and left Russia's management to others. At the same time, he instituted a reign of terror, executing thousands of boyars and ravaging the city of Novgorod. During the 1570s he married five wives in nine years, and, in a fit of rage, he murdered his son Ivan, his only viable heir, in 1581.


Ivan the Terrible
(1533–1584) his reign was characterized by murder and terror. [Russ. Hist.: EB, 9: 1179–1180]


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The Kremlin Ballet Theatre will also show two of his ballets: Ivan the Terrible and Romeo and Juliet.
During his reign, he tried to strengthen the state and the military, but his methods and acts were so horribly cruel that he was later called Ivan the Terrible.
The man who was Ivan the Terrible at Treblinka was a certain Machenko.
 
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