The narrative examines all of Russia's military campaigns in Eastern Europe and Western Siberia during the period of 1533 to 1584. This is the first specialist study of Ivan the Terrible's military strategy to be published in English.
Ivan IV, the first Grand Duke of Moscow to take the title Czar, was one of the most violent and demented rulers in history. Both sadist and mystic, he claimed...
This is the first major re-assessment of Ivan the Terrible to be published in the West in the post-Soviet period.
A biography of the infamous czar.
Ivan the Terrible is infamous as a sadistic despot responsible for the deaths of thousands of innocent people, particularly during the years of the oprichnina, his state-within-a-state.
Robert Payne, the distinguished author of many historical and biographical works, and Russian scholar Nikita Romanoff, describe in vivid and lively detail Ivan's callous upbringing; the poisoning of his second wife and the murder of his son ...
“This significant biography of the 16th-century Russian czar…is likely to become the definitive work on Ivan for some time” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
Henri Troyat, author of acclaimed biographies of Catherine the Great, Tolstoy, and Turgenev, turns his attention to one of the most violent, demented rulers ever, Czar Ivan IV. Though this larger-than-life ruler inflicted torture on friends ...
This story of an intriguing_though chilling_ruler will captivate readers as well as give them an understanding of the conflicts in Europe and Asia at this time.
No tsar of Russia has been more widely known by name than Ivan the Terrible.
A biography of Russia's first tsar Ivan the Terrible that describes his life, cruelty, andvictims.
Ivan the Terrible.
Ivan the Terrible
As Russia's first tsar, this ruthless ruler forced thousands from their homes, tortured spies, executed enemies, and even killed his own son. Will anyone ever really know what made Ivan...
This is the first attempt to write a biography of Ivan from birth to death, to study his policies, his marriages, his atrocities, and his disordered personality, and to link them as a coherent whole.
This is the first major re-assessment of Ivan the Terrible to be published in the West in the post-Soviet period.