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Although highly intelligent, well-read, and deeply religious, Ivan the Terrible (1530-1584) favored a life of unbridled licentiousness and bestial cruelty for much of his reign. Proclaimed tsar in 1547, Ivan led Russia to power, but the interminable wars led to opposition at home, where he mercilessly tortured, executed, and massacred those who defied him - including the entire populaces of many villages and cities. In his most notorious and horrifying act, suffering from increasing fits of rage and paranoia, Ivan murdered his own beloved son.
Based heavily on original Russian sources, and offering a chilling portrait of the brutal age in which he lived, Ivan the Terrible is a rich and revelatory biography of a ruthless monarch who invoked terror in his subjects and enemies alike.
