Ivan The Terrible Research Paper

Unfortunately, Ivan's condition gets worse and he enters the cycle of depression. This is when an individual realizes that their death is certain. Signs of this cycle include becoming silent, refusal of visitors, and spending most of their time crying and grieving. In the book, Ivan is shown casting away his wife and his fellow magistrates. The only one he allowed to visit him was his servant, Gerasim. “And he ceased crying...during that loneliness Ivan Illych had only lived in the

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.

The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate is about Ivan, a silverback gorilla who is raised by a human and lives in captivity at the Exit 8 Big Top Mall and Video Arcade. Ivan is brought to the Exit 8 after being captured and separated from his family while living in the wild. Ivan considers his new habitat a “domain” and refuses to admit that he is living in a cage. However, when Stella, an elephant, dies as a result of neglect, Ivan is forced to accept his situation. Moreover, he has to fight to keep the promise he made to save Ruby, a young elephant, from going down the same path as the rest of them. In her novel, The One and Only Ivan, Applegate uses characterization, setting, and plot to convey Ivan’s determination to become a protector.

Had Ivan not been paranoid and power hungry, the Russian State would not have been nearly as powerful and developed as it had become under Ivan’s rule. I believe that Ivan had some sort of mental illness and he directed his violent rage toward the boyars because of how they treated him during his childhood after the passing of his parents. Despite the fact that they should have been loyal to the then crowned Prince, they ignored his wishes, mistreated him, left him without enough food, and did not provide him with an education (Carswell

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

    In the face of Morrie's overwhelming compassion and tenderness, Ivan Ilych presents an opposite lifestyle. After a pleasantly carefree childhood he turned towards ambition and pursued an ever-larger salary and an ever-increasing social rank. Ivan lived without values and without attachments, easily moving between cities and jobs. He cared little for the great inconvenience of his family, and even less for his wife: "he hate[d] her with his whole soul" (Ivn, 139). Commitment was a prison to be avoided at all costs, a detriment to his proper and official existence. Genuine love touched Ivan only rarely and certainly not during the dying moments when he needed it the most.

the people’” but many others disagreed . They felt that he was manipulating the family. This only added to the discontent and secrecy surrounding the family. Many people did not like how isolated the family was, not only from everyday Russians, but also the aristocracy. This made Nicholas an incapable leader because he separated himself to a large extent from Russian society. His shyness added to the list of reasons why he was a bad leader for Russia which lead to the end of the Old Regime.

He also expanded Russia to the East and into Siberia, making the country even larger. In 1560, Ivan’s wife died and that changed him entirely. He suspected “the nobles of poisoning Anastasia and plotting to remove him from the throne, Ivan embarked on a campaign of oppression and killings against the hereditary nobility” (Ivan the Terrible). This means that since his wife died and nobles were always fighting for power and Ivan has always had a hatred for them, he thought that the nobles were the ones who planned to kill his wife and be-thrown him from his throne.

In 1153 Ivan suddenly became ill, he demanded allegiance to his oldest son Dmitri. The boyars balked. Ivan recovered but his mistrust of the nobility grew. Dmitri was dropped into a river and drowned, Anastasia died in 1560. These two events snapped Ivan's mind out of the harmony it for thirteen had enjoyed. It also marked the beginning of the second half of Ivan's reign, split like so much else about Ivan's person.

People are shaped by the times in which they live and the events they experience. No one can blame, for instance, that friend who is wary of relationships after a bad breakup, or that uncle who won't eat fish after it made him sick that one time. What is true for most people is also true for monarchs. Indeed, the events in 19th century Europe and his early life largely shaped the reign of Czar __Nikolai I__, who had to quash a rebellion immediately upon taking the Russian throne.

The time between his mother’s death and his crowning in 1547 were very violent as he grew up. A very high social class of nobles known as the boyars disputed among themselves as to who should rule ensued and as for Ivan he was constantly neglected and mistreated by these boyars who had looked after him, and occasionally tortured small animals for entertainment as a result. As the first tsar of Muscovy, Russia Ivan also married his wife Anastasia Romanovna during the year of his crowning. The time period between his crowning and his wife’s death in 1560 was considered his most constructive during which he expanded his control over independent territories and instituted laws, a tax collection and ordered the construction of St. Basil’s Cathedral in his kingdom. After his wife’s death he quickly began to decline and during the next twenty-four years of his rule he earned his name as Ivan the Terrible

As Ivan grew older, he began to under stand the benefits of being a prince Czar. Because Ivan grew up the way he did was why he became the ruler that he did. He knew from experience what would happen if he wasn't a strong ruler. As a Czar, when Ivan met someone new, he would look for the thing to fear in that person, then, he would do whatever it took to minimize whatever that something was that he was afraid of. It might require taking harsh action, but then Ivan wouldn't have to worry about that person becoming too powerful.

During Stalin’s reign, there were many problems in the USSR: economic problems, social problems and political. Due to these problems Stalin developed many domestic policies in order to counter these problems and try to avoid an uprising. These plans were put into motion almost immediately during Stalin’s reign, but they proved unsuccessful and Stalin was unable to solve the problems that existed within the Soviet Union.