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Ivan IV Vasilyevich (Russian: Иван IV Васильевич; [d] 25 August 1530 – 28 March [O.S. 18 March] 1584), commonly known as Ivan the Terrible, [e] was Grand Prince of Moscow and all Russia from 1533 to 1547, and the first Tsar and Grand Prince of all Russia from 1547 until his death in 1584. [3]
Ivan IV became Grand Prince of Moscow in 1533 at the age of three. The Shuysky and Belsky factions of the boyars competed for control of the regency until Ivan assumed the throne in 1547. Reflecting Moscow's new imperial claims, Ivan's coronation as Tsar was a ritual modeled after those of the Byzantine emperors.
At the age of three, Ivan IV (r. 1533–1584) acceded the throne in 1533, when his father Vasily III died. On 16 January 1547, Ivan IV was the first to be crowned tsar, at the age of 16; his ceremony drew upon Byzantine precedents deliberately. [17] The consent of the patriarch of Constantinople to use the title was eventually given. In 1561 ...
The modern city was created by merging the old flax-processing village Ivanovo with the industrial Voznesensky Posad in 1871. [3] Yakov Garelin—a patron of arts, historian, manufacturer, and public figure—is considered to be the founder of the city and its second head. Under his leadership, the city began to develop, industrialise, and grow.
Charles J. Halperin (born 1946 [1]) is an American historian specialising in the high and late medieval history of Eastern Europe, particularly the political and military history of late Kievan Rus', the Golden Horde, and early Muscovy.
Ivan IV under the walls of Kazan by Pyotr Korovin. End of the 10th — beginning of the 11th century - the city was founded; End of the 14th — beginning of the 15th century Kazan becomes a capital of Kazan khanate; 1408 - starts to mint own coins; 1552 Kazan was seized by Ivan the Terrible and Kazan khanate became a part of Russian state
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In August 1552, forces of Ivan the Terrible, operating from the Russian castle of Sviyazhsk, laid siege to Kazan. The Russians defeated the Tatar inland troops and burnt Archa and some castles. On October 3, after two months of siege and destruction of the citadel walls, the Russians entered the city. Some defenders managed to escape but most ...