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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. Along with the early influences of the boyars, also came the influence of ideas gained from the books that Ivan read. He read everything that he could get his hands on. Although there wasn't much to read, he read it, including the Bible, religious books, and some of the Western books that had

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. 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

Tsar Ivan the Terrible established the state policy oprichnina in 1565-72 Russia as a response to the drawn-out, expensive and failing Livonian War, the suspected treason of the boyars (Russian nobility), and the consequential defection of Prince Kurbsky. Initially implemented as a reform, the oprichnina turned into a madness of secret police, public executions, mass oppression, and the seizures of Russian aristocratic estates. Claiming tens of thousands of lives, the oprichnina, born of the paranoia

reins of government to the detriment of the realm made a profound impression on Ivan and imbued him with a lifelong dislike of the boyars. -One object of the reforms was to limit the powers of the hereditary aristocracy of princes and boyars (who held their estates on a hereditary basis) and promote the interests of the service gentry -The increasingly resentful boyars had indeed opposed Ivan and plotted against him on occasion, but the reign of terror that Ivan initiated by the oprichnina proved

illusion of autocracy. In its place, some have proposed that an oligarchy ruled by consensus. The relationship between the Tsar and the Boyars is the subject of much debate and varied based on the time in history and the personality of the Tsar. However, in general, the trend is towards autocracy. There are a few reasons for this. The first is that the importance of the Boyars is often overstated in relation to the political power of the Tsar. The second is that the policies, as much in fact as in law, are

died surprisingly from either a heart attack or poison. Vasily Shuisky took the regency and showed no sympathy to Ivan. He threw his mother’s lover, Ivan Obolensky, into prison and ordered his nurse, Agrafena Cheliadnina, into a nunnery. The feuding boyar families of Belsky and Shuisky battled over power while Ivan was left neglected and served only to be a figurehead to whomever was in control of the Regency. On December 29, 1943, the current Regent, Andrey Shuisky, was arrested on the orders of Ivan

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). Ivan was, however, a complicated man who was full of contradictions. He was a very

The evolution of Russian absolutism brought a new era of social and cultural expectations that drastically altered the life and society of Russia until the twentieth century. The impact the evolution of absolutism had on Russian life cannot be understated nor can it be overlooked. Therefore, it is important for us to look at three key defining eras during which absolutism was strongest in Russia: the Mongols, Ivan IV, and Peter the Great. These three rulers helped to shape much of what would be

named The Boyars’ Plot was banned by Stalin because it depicted the Tsar as a “mentally unstable” character in accordance with the origin of the name “Terrible” [Terrible is a mistranslated of the Russian word Grozniy,

reaction of inexperienced Czars. Due to Ivan’s chaotic childhood, he has bestowed many acts of evil and left a terrible impact on russia. Due to Ivan’s exposure of death and the Boyars mistreating him, his early life was terrible, filled with hatred, and was traumatized during his early childhood. When Ivan was little, the Boyars, which were the second ruling to the prince, never payed attention to Ivan when he was little. Ivan was given severe punishments. They wouldn’t