Ivan The Terrible

It all began in 1894 when a man named Alexander III (Tsar of Russia), died leaving his son Nicholas II to become the tsar of Russia at the age of 26. In 1894 Nicholas married Alexander the princess of Germany; they had 5 children, 4 girls and a boy. There only son Alexei was born with hemophilia.

During his 72 year reign he began a golden age for France in art, culture, and literature, he expanded France through fighting in many wars, and made an aggressive foreign policy. While Ivan the Terrible, began his reign at 8 years old after his two parents died. He became the first Tsar of Russia. The reconstructive period is when he married his wife, Anastasia Romanovna, he made reforms in government,law, tax, and church. However, after his wife died he turned “evil” and reigned in terror.

How does a leader gain and maintain the love of his people when he is killing them in mass numbers? Joseph Stalin was successful in this by following the political tactic of using fear to gain love. A tactic that was highly valued by Nicolo Machiavelli in his work The Prince. “In Arthur Koestler’s Darkness at Noon, the main character, and Old Bolshevik, Nikolaiz Rubashov, declares that “Number one” (Stalin) kept Machiavelli’s The Prince as his favorite night-table book” (Tisemanean). Stalin’s strategy of leadership can be closely compared to the strategies that Machiavelli describes in The Prince. A work that received much controversy over the lessons it preached to political leaders. It coined the phrase “the end justify the means” which follows as a consequence of considering vice a virtue. Stalin used many vices to gain and maintain his state till the day he died. Alexsandr Solzhenitsyn work, The First Circle, showcased how even on death’s door Stalin still used traits treasured in a Machiavellian prince. This paper will assess how Stalin follows Machiavelli’s guidelines for a prince in the areas of war, fear, crime, and in dealing with the people.

The lower class of Russia, which was composed of the working people felt misrepresented- or not represented at all.Nicholas II was the son of Alexander III of Russia, who was also the Emperor of Russia, before Nicholas. He was the heir of approximately 200 years of Czarist rule in Russia.Coming from a very rich family, Nicholas could hardly relate to the lower class. He had inherited Russia’s rule from his dad, and was not elected, which meant he was not necessarily qualified to correctly rule Russia, as he later proved through his actions.After he had angered the working class by slaughtering their own people, losing major battles in the war with Japan as well as in WWI, there was no way for him to amend for the mistakes he had made. Therefore, had the people been given the choice of taking down the Czar, they would have not hesitated.Their anger was represented through Lenin, with whom they felt they could connect to.Due to their dislike for the Czar, not many were dissatisfied when he was overthrown, and lated ordered to be executed by

Ivan IV, also known as “Ivan the Terrible,” lived from 1530 to 1584 and was the first Tsar of Russia. He officially reigned from the age of three; however, he did not have any real power until he crowned himself “Tsar” of Russia in 1547. He went on to conquer vast amounts of neighboring territories, eventually controlling the largest empire in the world at the time. In addition to increasing the Russian Tsardom’s size, he also completely restructured the political system. He took away all power from the noble boyar elite, and became an absolute monarch. This was good because the boyars at the time had been corrupt, and more interested in their personal interests than the interests of the state (Ivan the Terrible).

A shocking number of 40 million people were executed during Joseph Stalin’s reign of Soviet Russia between the years 1924 to 1953. Stalin, the leader of the Soviet Union, plays an important role in George Orwell’s novel 1984. Orwell’s novel depicts a totalitarian government that controls the lives of the people in Oceania by supplying false propaganda and monitoring their everyday life. As a matter of fact, Orwell writes his novel based on the events that occurred in Soviet Russia during the reign of Joseph Stalin. The author includes similar aspects to that of Soviet Russia in his novel to warn his audience the dangers of a totalitarian state. George Orwell’s dystopian society illustrates the negative effects that a totalitarian government

The first half of Ivan’s reign was positive for the Russian people. Ivan reformed Muscovy’s legal system and administrative structure as well as reforming the army. That army he then used to conquer more land for the Russian state, notably the Khanate of Kazan. Ivan’s undoing was the death of his first wife Anastasia. She stabilized his mind in the early part of his reign so after

The first of these tsars, Ivan III, also known as “Ivan the Great”, defied Mongol control and declared the autonomy of Moscow. Ivan III was soon followed by Ivan IV, also known as “Ivan the Terrible”, who declared his power by pushing aside his advisors, crowning himself tsar and crushing boyars, who were Russian nobles. At first, Ivan’s reign was successful as he added vast new territories to the Russian empire. Later, after his wife’s death, Ivan’s power and prosperity declined because he started persecuting those whom he believed opposed him. This resulted in the execution of many nobles and their families, friends, servants and peasants, in which he replaced with a new service nobility, whose loyalty was “guaranteed by their dependent on the state for land and titles.” [1] Ivan the Terrible nor Ivan III were never absolute rulers- their ways of ruling just helped lay the foundation for Russian absolutism. After Ivan IV and his successor died, Russia entered a “Time of Troubles”, which lasted from 1598-1613, in which the peasant warrior bands known as Cossacks, rebelled against their nobles who fought back and defeated the Cossacks. Ivan’s grand-nephew, Michael Romanov, was soon elected by the Zensky Sober- a body of nobles, and placed efforts toward state-building. He was succeeded by “Peter the Great”, the Russian king that truly consolidated Russian

He added vast new territories to the realm by successfully defeating Mongol power. He layed the foundation for a huge, ethnic Russian empire. After Anastasia, his beloved wifes death, he threatened to jail and execute anyone who tried to oppose him. Lots of boyar familes were executed and also their familes, friends, servants and peasants. The rest of what was left of the broken up estates were given to the service nobility. These people got this name from serving in tsar's army. All commoners who were trying to be forced to be servants fled to the conquered territories to the east and south. After their arrival they joined all the free people and outlaw armies living there. They were known as Cossacks. Russia entered yet another chaotic period following the death of Ivan IV. This period was known as the "Time of Troubles." During this time the Cossacks and peasants rebelled against all nobles and officials. This explosion brought the nobility together and they elected ivans grandnephew as the new hereditary tsar. Social and religious uprisings continued after his election. After a long war, Russia was able to gain a large amount of the ukraine because of wesk and decentralized Poland in

During these happy years of marriage Anastasia acted as quieting force in Ivan's life. It was in these years that Ivan would consolidate Russia, he ruled advisory counselor, and dispel corruption and excesses from his courtiers. It is a misconception that Ivan is known as the terrible, a glitch in translation. Ivan was known as "Grozny", the awesome, and it was in these years that he earned the title.

Rasputin’s influence over Alexandra allowed him to promote political allies to high-ranking state positions, leading to a massive reorganization of bureaucracy in 1915-1916 (Massie 389). Government officials soon believed that Rasputin’s presence was the source of too many of the troubles of the empire and posed a threat to the Romanov Dynasty. In December 1916, a group of nobles led by Prince Felix Yusupov plotted Rasputin’s death. After inviting him to a dinner party, they brutally murdered Rasputin, shooting him several times, beating him, poisoning him with cyanide, and finally throwing him into the Neva River (Rasputin 235; King 182). The Romanov Dynasty would collapse in the following year 1917 in the February.

Peter I of Russia more commonly known as Peter the Great, was the Tsar of Russia from 1682 until his death in 1725. From 1682-1694 he shared the throne with his half brother Ivan. His older half-sister ruled as regent, but when Ivan died Peter ruled alone from that point onwards.

Due to the fact that Ivan the terrible only appointed people who were submissive to his authority, killed land owners to increase his own power, and controlled the church, Ivan truly was an absolute monarch. To begin, even though Ivan was the heir to the throne, he was treated like a peasant. However, when he was finally crowned czar, he acted very fair and non-power hungry, but when his first wife, Anastasia, died, this all changed. Before his wife, Anastasia, died Ivan had advisers, which included priest Sylvester and Nobleman Alexis Adashev, yet when his wife died, the anger that originated by the way he was poorly treated as a child led to him having these advisers killed. He later appointed new advisers that would allow Ivan to do

When he was crowned the very first Czar of all of Russia, he expanded his empire tremendously, executed thousands of people, and later, even killed his own son. Cool dude, huh? To better relate to Ivan the Terrible and see why he is off important significance, we’ll look at his background and history, and the research that supports the reasoning that Ivan is of importance to this world. According to History Channel, Ivan the Terrible

I’m doing my report on Ivan the Terrible. Ivan Vasiljevich the Terrible was born in 1530 and died in 1584. He was the son of the Grand Duke Vasili III. His mother Helena Glinsky was the daughter of a Luthuanian refugee who had found asylum in Russia. She was young, vivacious, intelligent, and beautiful. Vasili had married her after he tried to have an heir for 20 years with his first wife Salome.