After Steiniger came Dick Bator, who was, to put it mildly, a bit of an eccentric. He took his job so seriously that he had a ...

Tsar Ivan IV Vasilyevich - Ivan the Terrible - was the first grand prince of Moscow from 1533 to 1547 and later ruled as the “Tsar of all Russia” until his death in 1584.

In 1547, Ivan IV (“the Terrible”) pulled off one of history’s greatest cons. Crowning himself “Tsar of All Rus,” he declared Moscow the rightful heir to Kyivan Rus, vaulting over five ...

Man of the Year (See Cover) On the year's shortest day, 60 years ago, in Gori, near Tiflis, a son was born to a poor, hard-working Georgian cobbler named Vissarion Djugashvili. The boy's ...

View The Tsar Ivan IV and the Hermit Nicholas Salos Episode of the Expedition of the Tsar Ivan, the Terrible, to Pskoff by Petr Isakovich Geller on artnet. Browse upcoming and past auction lots by ...

In 1547, Ivan IV (Ivan the Terrible) was crowned as the first Tsar of Russia, marking the official establishment of the Tsardom.

Ivan the Terrible was the first Tsar of Russia and his reign was characterised by brutality and paranoia. Now, 500 years after his death, scientists have reconstructed his face.

A period of relative peace followed, but as he entered his 30s, Ivan IV was plunged into paranoia by a double blow. First his wife died in 1560, apparently by poisoning.

The face of 'Ivan the Terrible', Russia's cruellest tyrant, has been reconstructed by scientists 440 years after his death. The Russian Tsar, who died in 1584, was just three years old when he ...

Using data gathered from a scientific excavation of the Tsar’s grave by Soviet researcher Mikhail Gerasimov, Moraes was able to gain a clearer picture of how Ivan IV’s lifestyle likely ...