Catherine The Great Ivan The Terrible

Catherine the great was the russian empress from 1762 to 1796.

Catherine the great ivan the terrible. His wife anastasia calmed him a little bit but after she died ivan went totally insane. Ivan the terrible was sure that boyars had poisoned his mother when he was just eight. I was born on august 25 1530 and died on march 18 1584. They were relatively lucky.

Fine art images heritage images getty images. She showed spectacular aptitude in foreign policy expanding her country by 200 000 square miles during her reign. Ivan the terrible deliberately killed people in horrible ways often because he was angry. Russia s absolute monarchs ivan the terrible.

Ivan vi is the prisoner catherine ii encounters in the first scene of hbo s catherine the great. He slaughtered thousands in his own city of novgorod on the basis of treason. In the 1530s the crimean khan formed an offensive alliance with safa giray of kazan his relative. Peter iii was murdered on the orders of his own wife who ruled for 30 years as catherine the great.

Under her leadership the domain of the russian empire was noticeably expanded. This painting by mikhail petrovich klodt titled ivan the terrible and the ghosts of his victims shows the tsar surrounded by the ghosts of some of the many many people he had killed. Feodor ii lasted seven weeks on the throne before he was strangled. She reformed the administration of the government bureaucracy.

She made many improvements to the russian government. Ivan iii vasilyevich russian. Cross over crescent variation of the christian cross which was devised by ivan the terrible after he had conquered kazan while ivan was a child armies of the kazan khanate repeatedly raided northeastern russia. During my early tenure on the throne i changed the law code of the country provided an army for my.

He was the grand prince of moscow from 1533 to 1547 and the first tsar of all the russias from 1547 until his death in 1584. 22 january 1440 moscow 27 october 1505 moscow also known as ivan the great was a grand prince of moscow and grand prince of all rus ivan served as the co ruler and regent for his blind father vasily ii from the mid 1450s before he officially ascended the throne in 1462. Ivan s siblings who were born in prison were released into the custody of their aunt the danish queen dowager juliana maria of brunswick wolfenbüttel on 30 june 1780 and settled at horsens in jutland. Information on the rapper ivan vasilyevich russian.

When i was three i came to the throne and at sixteen had myself crowned tsar of russia. Their meeting occurs after catherine had taken at least two pages from russian history and staged. I am ivan the terrible.