Today, Ivan is better known as Ivan the Terrible, though the name wouldn ... surpassing Peter the Great, Lenin, even Stalin.” Not long after his death, some held a positive impression of ...

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 ...

Vladimir Putin is merely the latest in a series of murderous modernizers stretching from Ivan the Terrible and Peter the Great to Catherine the Great and Stalin.