Ivan the Terrible swung his staff and accidentally smashed his son’s head before desperately trying to stem the blood flow, but to no avail.

Ivan the Terrible’s pointed staff was a symbolic object and appears in other paintings of him by various artists. It is believed that Ivan the Terrible killed his son with this staff.

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 the Terrible and His Son Ivan" by Ilya Repin GL Archive / Alamy Stock Photo Staff at Moscow’s State Tretyakov Gallery were preparing to close the museum last Friday night when a man ran ...

Ivan the Terrible died in 1584, leaving behind a legacy of bloodshed and upheaval. The circumstances of his death remain unclear, with theories ranging from a stroke to assassination.

The face of 'Ivan the Terrible', Russia's cruellest tyrant, has been reconstructed by scientists 440 years after his death.

On Wednesday, Russia's deputy foreign minister Oleg Syromolotov told reporters that Britain has been Russia's enemy since Ivan the Terrible, whose real name was Ivan IV Vasilyevich, ruled as Tsar ...

The Devil Next Door on Netflix gets to the bottom of a twisty story about Ivan the Terrible, John Demjanjuk, and Ivan Marchenko.

Ivan faces down Philip and lets loose his private force, the Oprichniks, on the boyars. Led by the Tsar's aunt, Euphrosyne, the boyers plot to assassinate Ivan and enthrone her son, Vladimir.

The painting depicts Ivan the Terrible mortally wounding his son Ivan in a fit of rage, and it is considered the most psychologically intense of Repin’s paintings -- an expression of the artist ...