The painting — titled "Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan on November 16, 1581," depicts Russia's first czar cradling his dying son after striking him in a fit of rage.

No, not Ivan the Terrible — he beat her, with his walking stick, until she miscarried. When his son tried to defend his pregnant wife, Ivan beat him to death, with the same walking stick.

Jason Reitman posted a heartfelt tribute to his father Ivan Reitman on social media Monday, after the Ghostbusters filmmaker died Saturday at age 75 Jason Reitman is mourning his father and "hero ...

Another traces the conflict to Ivan the Terrible’s rage against his son’s third wife: when the tsar discovered her dressed immodestly for the royal court, the story goes, he beat her, causing a ...

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 ...

A painting of Ivan the Terrible cradling his dying son [Artsapien] This event, and many more, showed the extent of Ivan's unpredictable and violent nature, even towards his own kin.

True face of Ivan the Terrible revealed 440 years after 'cruellest man's' death Researchers have reconstructed the face of the first Russian Tsar widely known for his brutal regime after his grave ...

Ivan, the King, and the cook took a ride, and Ivan pushed the cook to his death, torn apart by wild beasts on the ground. The King told Ivan that if he could break in a wild stallion for him, he would ...

Nazi war criminal John Demjanjuk’s death was not hastened by medication administered at a nursing home in Bavaria, prosecutors said. Ulrich Busch, an attorney for Demjanjuk, who died in March ...

He never found that. His father tried hard to form such a bond, and only after Max’s death realized that he had when he least expected it, through a poignant letter his son wrote as a 14-year-old.

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.