Maestro Riccardo Muti will lead the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in Prokofiev’s “Ivan the Terrible,” Feb. 23-25. (Photo: Todd Rosenberg Photography) Share If you are to fully capture the ...

But Friday marked the unveiling of Russia's first statue to Ivan the Terrible, ... a Russian city of about 310,000 that was established as a fortress to defend Moscow's southern borders.

Ivan the Terrible, Russia's first tsar, transformed his country into an empire, expanding its borders eastwards into Siberia, and south to the Caspian. But he's better remembered for his barbarity ...

Ivan the Terrible, Russia's first tsar, transformed his country into an empire, expanding its borders eastwards into Siberia, and south to the Caspian. But he's better remembered for his barbarity ...

Enter Ivan the Terrible, ... The fall of the U.S.S.R. in 1991 caused Russian territory to shrink again, with its European borders ending at Estonia, Latvia, Belarus, Ukraine, ...

Ivan the Terrible is one of the most controversial figures, ... the Oryol fortress was founded in 1566 at the behest of Ivan the Terrible in order to protect the southern borders of the state.

Ivan IV Vasilyevich was just a teenager when he was crowned czar and grand prince of all Russia on January 16, 1547. Today, ...

Today, Ivan is better known as Ivan the Terrible, though the name wouldn’t be attached to him until much later. Ivan ruled as Russia’s first-ever czar for nearly four decades.