Ivan the TerribleYale University Press, 25 Sep 2006 - 526 halaman Ivan IV, 'the Terrible' (1533-1584), is one of the key figures in Russian history, yet he has remained among the most neglected. Notorious for pioneering a policy of unrestrained terror—and for killing his own son—he has been credited with establishing autocracy in Russia. 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. |
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The Historical Background | xvii |
The Reign of Vastly III | 17 |
Ivans Birth Childhood Adolescence Coronation and Marriage | 33 |
The Era of Aleksei Adashev | 54 |
The Government of Compromise | 69 |
The Conquest of Kazan | 86 |
The Dynastic Crisis of 1553 Domestic and Military Policy and the Arrival of the English | 101 |
The War in Livonia and the End of the Chosen Council | 117 |
Armageddon | 238 |
Foreign Policy and the Tatar Invasions | 257 |
The End of the Oprichnina and the Succession to the PolishLithuanian Crown | 274 |
Grand Prince Simeon Bekbulatovich | 294 |
Peace Negotiations | 313 |
The Truce of Yam Zapolsky | 330 |
The Death of Ivan | 347 |
Ivans Legacy to Russia | 363 |
The Death of Anastasia and Ivans Second Marriage | 136 |
Tsar Ivan and Prince Andrei Kurbsky | 152 |
The Setting Up of the Oprichnina | 168 |
War in Livonia and the Zemskii Sobor of 1566 | 183 |
The Boyar Plot 1 the Letters to King Sigismund | 200 |
The Boyar Plot 2 the Executions of Ivan Fedorov Metropolitan Filipp and Vladimir of Staritsa | 219 |
Abbreviations | 379 |
Notes | 381 |
Brief Glossary | 441 |
Select Bibliography | 442 |
Index | 459 |