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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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Ivan Iv Russian History
1,519 wordsThe Oprichnina (1565 - 1572) was one of the saddest and most terrifying episodes in Russian history, this fire of cruelty, formed by Tsar Ivan IV (also known as Ivan the Terrible) with the purpose of strengthening of his reign with autocracy and preventing of noble interference, cost thousands of human lives to the country. He included to the Oprichnina the best and the most valuable lands of Russia, such as Moscow and some large central cities that covered about 60 % of the country. The rest of...
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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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Rest Of Europe Louis Xiv
1,441 words1. Louis XIV lived up to the title? Le Grand Monarch? by building the great place of Versailles and by bring the arts back to France. He surrounded himself with luxury and had only the finest things money could buy. Yet he probably still hurt his country more than he helped it and I don? t think he was worthy of the title? Le Grand Monarch? Versailles what the palace that was ordered to be built by Louis XIV. Versailles was the most luxurious palace of its time. The palace itself stretched an as...
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Ottoman Empire Illegitimate Son
2,270 words-The Real Prince Dracula- Yes, there was a real Dracula, and he was a true prince of darkness. He was Prince Vlad III Dracula, also known as Vlad Types, meaning Vlad the Impaler. The Turks called him Kaziglu Bey, or the Impaler Prince. He was the prince of Walachia, but, as legend suggests, he was born in Transylvania, which at that time was ruled by Hungary. A Transylvanian named Radu Near, or Rudolph the Black founded Walachia in 1290. It was dominated by Hungary until 1330, when it became ind...
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First World War 20 Th Century
3,857 wordsPublishing's one-man band In the shabby back room of John Calder's bookshop on The Cut in south London, an intriguing literary event is about to begin. The shop itself is an anachronism, one of those tiny havens that once populated Charing Cross Road before the arrival of megawatts such as Waterstones and Borders. Where you might normally expect to see Man and Boy or White Teeth displayed are copies of Louis-Ferdinand Celine's Journey to the End of the Night, the collected works of Antonin Arthu...
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