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What made Russian Tsar Ivan IV so terrible?
Overview of Ivan IV's reign.
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Ivan the Terrible
Ivan the Terrible (Ivan IV), portrait by Viktor Mikhaylovich Vasnetsov.
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Ivan IV
Ivan IV, icon, late 16th century; in the National Museum, Copenhagen.
The National Museum of Denmark, Department of Ethnography
Expansion of Russia, 1300–1796
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Ivan the Terrible statue in Oryol, Russia.
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