Was he claiming the throne of the neighboring Polish-Lithuanian state? Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan, Ilya Repin,1883–1885 Most historians mention conflicts between father and son, whether due to ...

In the same year, the czar also killed his son, Ivan, in a fit of rage. When Ivan the Terrible died in 1584, Russia was left in a state of almost total political and economic ruin. Sign up now to ...

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 and the hand of Anastasia. Ivan deftly plays to the ...

hit his son over the head so hard that he collapsed and died several days later. Nobody, not even his own family, was safe from Ivan the Terrible. Ivan died from a stroke while playing chess with a ...