Ivan IV Vasilyevich was just a teenager when he was crowned czar and grand prince of all Russia on January 16, 1547. Today, ...

Prior to that alteration of Russian historical memory, only one other Russian head of state had held Ivan in such high esteem: Josef Stalin. Even so, no public monuments to Ivan existed until 2016 ...

For Stalin, Ivan did not kill enough of the boyars, his“only complaint” about the Tsar, Sir Beevor explained. He continued: “Its also the view of quite a lot of Russians today including Putin.

FUTURE students of international history will regard the West's canonisation of Boris Yeltsin during the 1990s with appalled disbelief, much as, in… ...

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As one of his ministers told me, Putin would ask the visitor to open the book and they would look together at whatever marginalia Stalin had written: sometimes it was a grim laugh: “xa-xa-xa!”; ...

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.

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Dina Khapaeva, Georgia Institute of Technology (THE CONVERSATION) Beginning in ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Beginning in September 2025, Russian middle and high school students will be handed a new textbook titled “My Family.” Published in March 2025, the textbook’s co-author ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Beginning in September 2025, Russian middle and high school students will be handed a new textbook titled “My Family.” Published in March 2025, the textbook’s co-author ...

Prior to that alteration of Russian historical memory, only one other Russian head of state had held Ivan in such high esteem: Josef Stalin. Even so, no public monuments to Ivan existed until 2016 ...