Ivan IV the Terrible, the Grand Prince of Russia renowned as a vicious tyrant, has had his face reconstructed by scientists - ...
Centuries after his death, scientists have managed to reconstruct the "cold" face of Ivan the Terrible, Russia's cruellest ...
Why was Tsar Ivan known as "The Terrible"? His mental health issues, that made him prone to paranoia and rage among other things, caused him to leave a high death toll and general destruction ...
Ivan the Terrible is one of the most controversial ... For example, (French king) Charles IX caused the death of about 30,000 Huguenots (French Calvinist Protestants) in just a few days, mainly ...
The last tsar of the previous dynasty, a weak son of Ivan the Terrible, died in 1589 ... One", ascended to the throne after his fatherÍs death, and son followed father generation after generation ...
When forced to compete on the open market, Ivan can be a terrible salesman. The Russians’ profit from their splashy fair at Kuala Lumpur came chiefly in the form of experience. They crammed ...
An imagined chat with Pooh commemorates the 100th anniversary of A.A. Milne’s “When We Were Very Young.” David Orr is the ...
Three years after his death, Stalin’s legacy was denounced ... The Russian statesman also announced plans to unveil a statue for Ivan the Terrible, who killed tens of thousands of people as ...
His paternal grandfather, Count Ilya Tolstoy, was governor of the city of Kazan (now the capital of Tatarstan), the place enshrined in Russian memory as the location of Ivan the Terrible’s ...
In this part, as Ivan the Terrible attempts to consolidate his power by establishing a personal army, his political rivals, the Russian boyars, plot to assassinate him.
Once the richest family in the world, the House of Romanov was Russia's ruling dynastic family for over 300 years from 1613 until its deposition in 1917.
It's kapooey (death) for you!" Ivan recalls a final exchange of words ... but not the legacy of the terrible hours at 144 Yablunska. The office building at 144 Yablunska Street where the killings ...