We all know Ivan IV’s sobriquet, but the story is more complicated than it might seem Teresa Nowakowski Daily Correspondent The Oprichniki by Nikolai Nevrev (1888). The painting shows the last ...

Read more about Tudor History Elizabeth I and the Tudor ... and poet Just as Hitler had a passion for painting, Joseph Stalin was a serious poet and Saddam Hussein was a prolific novelist, Ivan the ...

Probably no tsar of Russia has been more widely known by name than Ivan the Terrible. But he has remained a nebulous figure, seen through a haze of blood and savagery. Most historians, like Karamzin ...

Ivan the Terrible is one of the most controversial figures, but at the same time one of the most prominent in Russia’s history, the culture minister said in his welcome address ORYOL ...

Moscow City's Zamoskvoretsky district court has authorized the arrest of Igor Podporin, who is charged with attacking and damaging the canvas 'Ivan the Terrible ... in the painting ran counter ...

On October 2nd, 1552, a Muscovite army led in person by Ivan the Terrible captured Kazan, the capital of the Kazan Tartars. The importance of this victory in Russian history can scarcely be ...

Ivan IV Vasilyevich was just a teenager when he was crowned czar and grand prince of all Russia on January 16, 1547. Today, Ivan is better known as Ivan the Terrible, though the name wouldn’t be ...

When Ivan the Terrible died in 1584, Russia was left in a state of almost total political and economic ruin. Sign up now to receive email updates on new series, features, and more from your favourite ...