Vlad The Impaler

Vlad Dracula formed an alliance with Hunyadi, in the hopes of persuading him he was the rightful heir to the throne, but it wasn't until 1456, that Vlad Dracula would make his move, killing his father's murderer, and defeating Vladislav II, to take over as the new ruler of Wallachia. In 1569, following an Easter Sunday feast, Vlad Dracula had all the boyar families who had been attending arrested. Those who were in good health were condemned to a life of slavery, and put to work on the construction of his Poenari Castle on the Arges river. Those who were old and weak were impaled for all to see. Thus began Vlad the Impaler's reign of blood and terror.

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).

To begin with Vladek did not want to go to the war but he was forced to go to. Vladek was forced to shoot somebody and was forced to do things he didn’t want to do during the

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

Russia emerged as a significant power during the 1500s through war. It fought its neighbors and expanded its territory aimlessly. Ivan the Terrible’s expansion brought him into contact with both Western Europe and the Ottoman Empire. Aiming to gain a port and outlet to the Baltic,

Due to Louis being connected to the Habsburgs through his own marriage and that of his sister Anne, the Habsburg Archduke of Austria Ferdinand I was elected King of Bohemia. He moved to secure his title as King of Hungary and was crowned King by a minority group of nobles on December 16th 1526. However, he was not uncontested. János Zápolyai was also elected King by the majority of the nobility on November 11th. In order to cement his rule, Zápolyai was encouraged by a Polish noble and the French ambassador to Poland to enter an agreement with the Ottoman Sultan. As a result, Suleiman I supported Zápolyai and had him become his vassal. Suleiman then moved to expand further into Hungary and marched west, reaching Vienna in 1529. After the siege, heavy snowfall forced the Ottomans to retreat on October 14th, while Ferdinand secured the western province of Hungary. It was this division which remained the status quo until our period being studied, due to the exhaustion of the Ottoman machine of expansion. The result was the split of Hungary by the seventeenth century into the Habsburg controlled Royal Hungary in the west, the rival Principality of Transylvania in the east and the Ottoman controlled lands of the south and centre. This made sure that the Habsburg could consolidate power in Hungary while it was so divided.

Ivan life began in the same fashion it would continue: in a tempest. His father murdered when he was three years old, his suspected murderer-Ivan's uncle. Following this disaster Ivan succeeded to the throne. His mother, Jelena Glinsky, crowned herself "regent" and "protector", an ambitious choice that would prove deadly to her self, and detrimental to

Ivan IV also mainly known as Ivan the Terrible was a famous Russian born monarch that used the name czar as a title of his reign. He granted a lot of power in 1543 by killing a Shuisky member and letting his family known as Glinsky, have more power in the Russian government. In January of 1547 he gained full power and a few months after, Moscow caught fire and killed more than 1,700 people making many protests go against the Glinsky family making Ivan IV wanting an emergency reform (sauers.) He was very famous for his statebuilding and reforms of the Russian empire during the Modern Era because it was needed to save Ivan’s leadership profession. Statebuilding was important during this time because it would make in this case Russia more controlled

Until Ivan could rule, Yelena, his mother, ruled instead, until her death due to an attempted overthrow of noble families. Still, Ivan was too young to rule, so the boyars of Russia took his place instead. Two families among the boyars competed for power and Moscow became a place full of crime. Eventually,

Tepes and his brother were sent to the Turkish Sultan as ‘official’ hostages a year later, for education in change for loyalty to the Sultan. During a war with Hungary in 1447, Vlad II Dracul (Dracula’s father) and Tepes’s eldest brother were killed by Hungarian assassins. Wallachia was ruled by Hungary, and the Turks released and gave Tepes an army in order to capture Wallachia. He held the throne for two months before being forced to run away. He then abandoned Turkish ties and appealed to Hungary to become Prince of Wallachia. His following rule, though bloody, brought Romania together like never before. He was made famous by his rule as well since his name “Vlad the Impaler” came during this rule. He got this name from his use of torture as punishment; his ‘favorite’ act being using a large wooden stake to impale criminals from the groin to the mouth. Soon war began again with Turkey and Hungary, and he was removed and regained the throne a third time before he was killed in a war with the Turks, his head sent to the sultan as proof of his death.

In 1441, Hunyadi came to Targoviste and asked Dracul to join in on the holy war . Since it was not clear to Dracul who had the best chance of winning, he decided to stay neutral. The next year, the Turks raided Transylvania and Dracul just let them pass through. This infuriated Hunyadi and he had to fight and chase the Turks back through Wallacia and forced Dracul out of Tirgoviste. Dracul went back to the Turks but they were not happy with him either and put him in prison. While he was in jail, he made some promises the the Turks. He pledged to not go to war against the Turks, agreed to pay a sum of money every year and he would send some of his own Wallacian men to the Turks to be converted to Islam and trained as soldiers. The one promise that would change the life of Dracula forever and was forced to keep was giving up Dracula and Radu as hostages. In 1443, Dracul returned to Targoviste and became Prince of Wallacia while his sons were forced out and traveled 700 miles where they became prisoners of the Ottoman Empire.

Since his rise to fame, Dracula has been found to have many similar connections to Vlad the Impaler, a Romanian prince. However many of these connections made are merely coincidences and wishful thinking from fans around the world. If any connections are to be made, they should be made between Dracula and his creator, Bram Stoker. Many themes of the story reflect Stoker’s own life rather than Vlad the Impaler’s (Pitt). Even Dracula’s castle, Bran Castle, which was assumed to be where Vlad the Impaler had lived, was found to be false. In fact, historians have found that Vlad the Impaler actually passed through the town of Bran, in 1459, and destroyed everything in his path. Three years

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.

Blood sucking, shapeshifting, killer… These are just some of the myths attached to Count Dracula. Dracula is a vampire, and as we all know, vampires consume blood. In the novel, the author Bram Stoker never mentions how Dracula became a vampire (every other vampire was created off of Dracula), however Van Helsing thinks that he made a deal with the Devil and traded his mortality for that of a cursed soul in return for something else. A lot of myths are attached to Dracula, which is

Have you ever watched a movie that had the character dracula in the movie? Most of these characters in the movies or books were based off of Vlad the Impaler. There are even rumors saying that he dipped his bread into the blood of his victims, and that he drank the blood of his victims aswell. It was pretty gruesome on the way he killed his victims.Vlad the Impaler was an evil person, who was a violent, torturous dictator, and he was viewed as one of the most evil person in the world.