If most people think that the atrocities committed by those in power are history and are over, most of you are wrong, and today we're going to be presenting the most important stories of history about Ivan the Terrible, He's a medieval figure, particularly from ancient Russia, whose life was full of violence and blood, and that life was the cause of his acquiring heart and it started in the 14th century.
Who is Ivan the Terrible?
Ivan IV, the son of the Prince of Moscow, Vasily III, was born in 1530. After his father's death, Ivan became governor at the age of three. His mother, Elena, was his guardian, and upon reaching the age of eight, his mother died by poison. This influenced the personality of the child, Ivan. After this, he took over the Assembly of Choice, a group of allies. Ivan did not leave the government in their hands much. Ivan, at the age of 14, took over in 1547, and declared himself the first czar in Russia.
Ivan the Terrible and the Story of His Rule
His announcement that he was the first czar to send a message about his power and the power of the empire before long, was well-known to Ivan the Terrible, who was a staunch follower of Orthodox Christianity and had contributed much to his strong personality and believed that he had a divine right to have unlimited power after the war. His first act was to get rid of the members of the council chosen as the ultimate authority.
In 1553, something strange happened, which made him the most powerful czar in Russian history. Ivan the terrible one and one of his advisers quarreled. Because of this disagreement, the chancellor broke away from the royal palace and joined the ranks of enemies, the Lithuanians. This made Ivan the terrible distrust of any of the nobles around him, and committed a lot of brutal massacres, killing a large number of his nobles. One of the most brutal methods he used was to break the victim's bones and throw them on the ice.
He also had many brutal methods such as burning and slaughter. He did not abandon his dream of expanding his empire, so he carried out many wars that drained many human and material resources. He occupied Kazan, executed all Muslims there, demolished mosques, built churches in its place, then occupied many other countries. He fought a three-year war with the Ottomans and could not achieve any victory, so he decided to make a peace treaty between him and the Ottomans.
The terrible Ivan, his cruelty, and the great carnage
In 1570, Ivan the Terrible committed a massacre that earned him the moniker Ivan's monstrous nickname. He committed this massacre simply out of doubt, after the plague spread in Russia, and famines and poverty spread because of the plague and wars that were carried out by Ivan the Terrible, who was suspicious of the nobles in the city of Novgorod. They prepared to turn against him. Ivan the Terrible robbed the city, then destroyed it, and he stayed for five days, massacring men, children and women. This altar killed sixty thousand victims.
The story of Ivan the Terrible and his eight wives
Ivan the Terrible married eight times:
The first wife is Anastasia Romanov, and Ivan's terrible livelihood is with six children, four of whom died. Thirteen years later, the marriage ended because his first wife died in 1560. He was convinced that members of the aristocracy poisoned his wife, and he carried out many massacres.
The second wife, Princess Maria Temryukovna, died after eight years of mysterious marriage. This prompted Ivan the Terrible to accuse the Poyaar class, as he paid him today with massacres to kill his wife.
The third wife was married in 1571 to Ivan the Terrible from Marva Sopakina, who had a sudden fever a few days after the marriage. This reason did not convince Ivan the Terrible to do another massacre against the Poyaar class.
The fourth wife is Anna Koltovskaya, who was banished by Ivan the Terrible in 1574 to the nunnery two years after the marriage because she had no children.
The same fate occurred in 1576 when the fifth wife, Anna Veselchikova, was exiled for the same reason.
The sixth wife has not been named by history because she betrayed the terrible Czar Ivan and her lover was brutally executed in front of her and then she was banished to the convent until she died there.
The seventh wife, María Dugurcía, also betrayed the Kaiser, but this time Ivan the Terrible threw his wife into the frozen river.
The eighth wife was Maria Nagia, whose child was born and named Dimitri, but this time the Kaiser died in 1584. His wife was banished to the monastery, and his son, Dimitri, was killed by his enemies in 1591.
Ivan the terrible and the story of his favorite son
His favorite son, Ivan Ivanovich, was named in 1554. He was his father's secret. He used to accompany his father through all wars and attend the great slaughter in 1570. This gave him an advantage over his older brother. Ivan the Terrible married his son three times, and the first and second wives were banished because they had females, not males.
In 1581, his son's wife, Belina, was wearing clothes that Ivan Al-Ruhaib considered unsuitable for power. Ivan Al-Ruhaib beat the pregnant wife, and Ivan Al-Juneeb tried to save her. The baby died, and there were conflicts between the father and the son. Politics entered into the dispute, but Ivan Al-Ruhayeb severely beat his son until he lost consciousness and tried to save his son, but this was useless. The son died in 1581.
The terrible death of Czar Ivan
The fate did not give much time to the terrible Ivan, and three years after his death to his son, the terrible Ivan Caesar died of a stroke during a chess game with one of his closest friends in 1584, bringing to an end the most bloody people in history.
This story introduced us to some forgotten history, and the story tells us about what power can do, how power can be loved, how it can be sought, what happens through uncertainty and paranoia, gets to the killing of those closest to us, and the insanity of massacres, and that's called power obsession.