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Article: Ivan the Terrible: First Tsar of Russia.(Book review)
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- The Historian
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- December 22, 2006
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Ivan the Terrible: First Tsar of Russia. By Isabel de Madariaga. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2005. Pp. xxii, 484. $35.00.)
Ivan IV of Russia [1533-1584], has been a controversial figure since the sixteenth century. His usual epithet, "The Terrible," derived from the Russian word "groznyi", best translated as "The Awe-Inspiring," has turned Ivan into the butt of many jokes and the source of much mythmaking in Russian history. Beyond doubt, Ivan's reign was one of the bloodiest in Russian history, but historians are divided on almost everything else about his reign, including, most especially, his personality and whether his policies, in spite of ...
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