It was later renamed the Kazan Khanate and inherited both Bulgar and Mongol ethnic features, language, religious and cultural traditions. Ivan the Terrible fought for Kazan and slaughtered Tatars ...

A fourth map shows the Mongol Empire dwarfing early Russia—then the Principality of Moscow under Ivan the Great—as it appeared shortly after it gained independence from the Mongol Golden Horde ...

a powerful Mongol general who leads his massive armies west in search of new lands to conquer. Forced to protect their village, Zakhar and Rada send their sons, Ivan and Maksim, to ask for help ...

In 1223, Mongol chieftain Genghis Khan used a feint ... During the Livonian War in the 16 th century, Ivan the Terrible’s commanders won many battles against German, Polish and Swedish forces ...

Tsar Ivan the Terrible, who conquered the last Kazan khanate in the 1500s, incorporated the main Mongolian leaders into the Russian administration. The tsar of "Holy Russia", to whom many today ...