Ivan IV of Russia has been know throughout the West as Ivan the Terrible. In Russia he is called Ivan Grozny, which would be better translated as Ivan the Awesome, but that is not what he is known as in the West. So the question arises, was Ivan truly the terrible murdered ruling his people with the sword and an iron fist, or was there more to his rule than violence?
Ivan was born August 25th, 1530 to Grand Prince Vasily III of Moscow and Yelena Glinskaya.
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