Naming your son after his dead half-brother was something ... but there’s little to no evidence of that. Anyway, Tsar Ivan IV then had enough on his plate as it was: Fyodor was stricken with ...

Tsar Ivan IV admires his sixth wife Vasilisa Melentyeva ... Ivan the Terrible killing his son by Ilya Repin. It shows Ivan, an old man with mad bulging eyes, embracing his dying son, having ...

He is also believed to have murdered his son—and only viable heir—in a fit of rage. Russian nationalists, however, have trumpeted an alternative set of events: that Ivan IV was not a ...

In 1547, Ivan IV (1530-1584), archduke of Moscow ... Chief among them are his aunt, who wants to advance the fortunes of her son, a simpleton, and Kurbsky, a warrior prince who wants both power ...

The Oprichniki by Nikolai Nevrev (1888). The painting shows the last minutes of one of the aristocratic elite taken out by Ivan IV. Wikimedia Commons Ivan IV Vasilyevich was just a teenager when ...