The author of the portrait is yet to be established. Ivan the Terrible (1548-1574), the first Russian ruler to style himself a "tsar" (a rendering of the name Caesar), remains a controversial ...

Whether or not this war will be added to the list of Russian defeats remains to be seen. Under the reign of Tsar Ivan IV Vasilyevich, known to history as Ivan the Terrible, Russia went to war with ...

Here, Express.co.uk explores how Putin and others in Russia were inspired by the first Tsar and Grand Prince of Moscow whose antics earned him the nickname Ivan the Terrible. Tsar Ivan IV earned ...

Ivan the Terrible, Russia's first tsar, transformed his country into an ... Ivan the Terrible, who reigned as Ivan IV, was just three when he rose to power after the death of his father.

Ivan IV was neglected and mistreated by ... By 1547, at the tender age of 17, Ivan was crowned Tsar, the first to hold that title in Russia. His ascension to the throne in 1547 was characterised ...

The Russian Tsar died in 1584 ... According to the New York Post, the terror-loving tsar also killed his son and only viable heir Ivan IV in a fit of fury. Now, Cicero Moraes, a Brazilian graphics ...

Scientists have reconstructed the "cold" face of Russia's cruellest leader centuries after his death. Ivan the Terrible was Russia's first Tsar and turned ... who reigned as Ivan IV, was just ...