Ivan the Terrible Essay

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.

Ivan was, however, a complicated man who was full of contradictions. He was a very intelligent and effective ruler; however, he was almost certainly insane. In addition to all of the positive changes that were made under his rule, he also tortured and killed thousands of people, many of who were innocent citizens (Ivan the Terrible). The conflict that I have found is that on one hand he was a very good asset to the wellbeing of the state, but on the other hand he often acted irrationally and as a danger to the general population. Interestingly, in addition to his negative

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

That was led to because Ivan IV died without a heir. The Swedish and Polish attacks on Russian territory was also a key factor in the time of troubles. 5. Romanov Dynasty The Romanov Dynasty was a family that ruled Russia until 1917.

    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.

However, Nicholas’s personality was not the sole reason why the Old Regime collapsed. Chubarov argues that “another Peter the Great could have saved the Romanovs and Imperial Russia. It is obvious though that the last tsar could not” . Nicholas’s lack of

Then his older brother, Constantine, second in line to the throne, formally abdicated any share in the line of succession. Now, should anything happen to Alexander, the entire Russian Empire would fall into Nikolai's lap.

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

Ivan IV Vasilyevich crowned as Tsar of Russia at the age of 16 was the first ruler to carry the title Czar. Ivan the Terrible successfully made a lot of changes to Russia for the progression from medieval times to an Empire. Ivan was a patron of the arts, he also was the founder of Russia’s very first publishing house and the Moscow Print Yard. Ivan was very cruel to the people that disagreed with him earning the nickname Ivan the Terrible. Ivan was also considered to be mentally unstable and very paranoid, so much so that he killed his own son.

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.

Boris Godunov started by being appointed by Ivan IV as one of the two guardians for regents. After his sister’s wedding to Feodor I, Godunov is legitimized as regent for Feodor I. Then, after Feodor’s death in 1598 Godunov is elected unanimously by the land assembly. During his reign he exiles an illegitimate son of Ivan IV’s, Dimitri, to prevent rebellion. Later on in 1591, Dimitri dies at age seven. Godunov is rumored to have killed Dimitri. The lands that were lost to Sweden in 1583 (the Livonian War) are recovered under his rule. Godunov increases the Russian presence in the conquered Siberia. Godunov also introduces a new act to strengthen rural stability. It denied the peasants any right of transferring their labor from one landowner

We will begin with an analysation of his family situation. Praskovya, his wife, had been a love constructed from the start of an economic and sociological expectation rather than that of a true courtship. The happiness therefore of the union was derived solely of a necessity to fulfill a desire on the part of others for a “success” of sorts, surely her desire as well. “Ivan Ilyich could have counted on a more illustrious match, but even this one was quite good. He had his salary, and her income, he hoped, would bring in an equal amount. (Tolstoy, 56)” Tolstoy goes on to make several remarks on the benevolent nature of the relationship between he and his wife. The arrival of his children creates no great marker in his life, and proves to be little more than a factor in his ever-lengthening retreat into his life of solitude and work.