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Empress Anna Of Russia
1,377 wordsRussia is a nation with a rich past and a history of royalty that cannot be compared with any other in the world. There were memorable rulers, including Catherine and Peter the Great, and rulers that Russia and the rest of the world would like to forget, such as Ivan the Terrible. However short their reign, or how seemingly insignificant their actions, all have had an effect on Russias history and have left plenty of colorful images to be written down into history books. One can argue about how ...
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Struggle For Power Ivan The Terrible
1,404 wordsI'm doing my report on Ivan the Terrible. Ivan Vasiljevich the Terrible was born in 1530 and died in 1584. He was the son of the Grand Duke Vasili III. His mother Helena Glinsky was the daughter of a Lithuanian refugee who had found asylum in Russia. She was young, vivacious, intelligent, and beautiful. Vasili had married her after he tried to have an heir for 20 years with his first wife Salome. Vasili was in his 50 's, and Helena was 20 when Ivan was born. Ivan had another brother Yuri born 18...
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Social Democratic Party Ivan The Terrible
1,541 wordsRUSSIA IN THE 1800 S Since the reign of Ivan the Terrible, the Russian Tsars had followed a fairly consistent policy of drawing more political power away from the nobility and into their own hands. This centralization of authority in the Russian state had usually been accomplished in one of two ways either by simply taking power from the nobles and braving their opposition (Ivan the Terrible was very good at this), or by compensating the nobles for decreased power in government by giving them gr...
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Peter The Great Ivan The Terrible
1,425 wordsRussia is a nation with a rich past and a history of royalty that cannot be compared with any other in the world. There were memorable rulers, including Catherine and Peter the Great, and rulers that Russia and the rest of the world would like to forget, such as Ivan the Terrible. However short their reign, or how seemingly insignificant their actions, all have had an effect on Russia? s history and have left plenty of colorful images to be written down into history books. One can argue about ho...
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Ivan The Terrible Wife And Son
1,987 wordsIvan the Terrible was not always known as being terrible. When first reigning as Czar over Russia, he was a normal leader. It was after the five scars marking his journey through life that he had a mental breakdown and went out of control. Ivan was only three years old when his father, Vasili III, died in 1533. Since he was too young to reign, his mother Elena was made regent on his behalf. This was surprising because she was a woman, a commoner, and a foreigner by birth. Anxious to avoid a civi...
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Ivan The Terrible Evil Deeds
1,274 wordsIt is said that Russian rulers occurred in two contrasting types. They tended to be either extremely meek, or extremely self-assertive. In the case of Ivan IV, he was extremely self-assertive. At first this was a good thing he used it to his and the countries advantage via reforms etc However, Ivan experiences a turning point after which that self-assertion transforms into insanity, and completely destroyed all the positive things he built up. Ivan was a madman without genius, the quality ideas ...
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Ivan The Terrible Ivan Iv
444 wordsIvan IV, Tsar of Russia is better known as Ivan the terrible. In the following paragraphs I will depict major events in his life and the role he played in Russia. I will also exhibit the many positive things that he did. As well as the negative things that he did to Russian society during his reign of thirty-seven years. I will debate the fact that Ivan IV was nick named Ivan the terrible. Ivan IV was born on August 25, 1530, in Moscow. He was the son of Vasily III, the grand duke of Moscow, who...
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