Download or read book The Terrible Czar written by graf Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ivan the Terrible written by Robert Payne and published by Cooper Square Press. This book was released on 2002-10-01 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Czar Ivan IV (1530-1584), the first Russian ruler to take the title czar, is known as one of the worst tyrants in history, but few people among the general public know how he got such an infamous reputation. Relying on extensive research based heavily on original Russian sources, this definitive biography depicts an incredibly complex man living in a time of simple, harsh realities. Robert Payne, the distinguished author of many historical and biographical works, and Russian scholar Nikita Romanoff, describe in vivid and lively detail Ivan's callous upbringing; the poisoning of his second wife and the murder of his son; his obsession with religion and sin; his predilection for mass murder, evidenced by his massacre of 30,000 citizens of Novgorod; yet his remarkable intelligence as a ruler, supporting the growth of trade and expanding Russia's borders.
Download or read book Ivan the Terrible written by Isabel de Madariaga and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2006-09-25 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ivan IV, 'the Terrible' (1533-1584), is one of the key figures in Russian history, yet he has remained among the most neglected. Notorious for pioneering a policy of unrestrained terror—and for killing his own son—he has been credited with establishing autocracy in Russia. This is the first attempt to write a biography of Ivan from birth to death, to study his policies, his marriages, his atrocities, and his disordered personality, and to link them as a coherent whole. Isabel de Madariaga situates Ivan within the background of Russian political developments in the sixteenth century. And, with revealing comparisons with English, Spanish, and other European courts, she sets him within the international context of his time. The biography includes a new account of the role of astrology and magic at Ivan's court and provides fresh insights into his foreign policy. Facing up to problems of authenticity (much of Ivan's archive was destroyed by fire in 1626) and controversies which have paralyzed western scholarship, de Madariaga seeks to present Russia as viewed from the Kremlin rather than from abroad and to comprehend the full tragedy of Ivan's reign.
Download or read book Ivan the Terrible written by Don Nardo and published by Blackbirch Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 2006 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the infamous czar.
Download or read book The Terrible Czar written by Aleksej Konstantinovitsj Tolstoj and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ivan the Terrible written by Sean Price and published by Wicked History. This book was released on 2008 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of Russia's first tsar Ivan the Terrible that describes his life, cruelty, andvictims.
Download or read book Ivan the Terrible written by Henri Troyat and published by Buccaneer Books. This book was released on 1988-12 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of the best-selling Tolstoy, winner of France's prestigious Prix Goncourt, member of the Académie Française, and renowned expert on Russia paints yet another indelible portrait of one of Russia's imposing historical figures. Henri Troyat, author of acclaimed biographies of Catherine the Great, Tolstoy, and Turgenev, turns his attention to one of the most violent, demented rulers ever, Czar Ivan IV. Though this larger-than-life ruler inflicted torture on friends and enemies alike, destroyed villages and even killed his own son, he also forged what became 20th-century Russia.
Download or read book The Terrible Czar written by graf Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Terrible Czar written by graf Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ivan the Terrible written by Francis Carr and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Image of Ivan the Terrible in Russian Folklore written by Maureen Perrie and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-04-11 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of Ivan the Terrible's depiction in Russian folklore, and the controversies surrounding it.
Download or read book Ivan the Terrible written by Kazimierz Waliszewski and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ivan the Terrible written by R. G. Skrynnikov and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Portrays Ivan the Terrible with his many contradictions: as an outstanding military leader, diplomat, and man of letters, and as a savage and almost insane tyrant. -- Author's introduction.
Download or read book Ivan the Terrible written by Sergeĭ Fedorovich Platonov and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ivan the Terrible written by Alexander Filjushkin and published by Frontline Books. This book was released on 2008-08-30 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ivan was also the first Russian ruler to invade Europe, and his Campaigns against the Livonian Confederation were initially very successful. In 1558, Russian soldiers occupied Dorpat and Narva, and laid siege to Reval, creating vital trade routes over the Baltic Sea. At the Battle of Ergema the Russians defeated the knights of the Livonian Order, fuelling Ivan's dreams of a Russian Empire. However, as Erik XIV of Sweden recaptured Reval, and the Poles joined forces with the Lithuannians, the war began to turn against Ivan. In 1571, an army of 120,000 Crimean Tatars crossed the River Ugra, crushed the Russian defences, and burned Moscow to the ground. As Ivan became increasingly paranoid and violent, he carried out a number of terrible massacres. It is thought that more than forty thousand were killed when the Russians sacked the town of Novgorod in 1570, and many were tortured and murdered in front of Ivan and his son. Ivan the Terrible describes the organisation and equipment of the tsar's army and the forces of his enemies, the Poles, Lithuanians, Tatars and Livonian Knights. The narrative examines all of Russia's military campaigns in Eastern Europe and Western Siberia during the period of 1533 to 1584. This is the first specialist study of Ivan the Terrible's military strategy to be published in English.
Download or read book The Origins of Autocracy written by Alexander Yanov and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1981-01-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the role of Ivan the Terrible in Russian history and the thinking of Russian historians, emphasizing the political actions and ideals of the sixteenth-century czar as they have shaped Russia's development through the present