Ivan the Terrible

Name: Ivan the Terrible
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ISBN: 9780300119732

ISBN-10: 0300119739

ISBN-13: 9780300119732

Edition: 2006

Authors: Isabel de Madariaga

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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. Isabel de Madariaga situates Ivan within the background of Russian political developments in the sixteenth century. And, with revealing comparisons with English, Spanish, and other European courts, she sets him within the…

Book details

List price: $37.50
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 9/25/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 526
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.21" long x 1.40" tall
Weight: 1.738
Language: English

Isabel de Madariaga is professor emeritus of Slavonic Studies at the University of London.



List of Illustrations


List of Maps


Foreword


Acknowledgements



The Historical Background



The Reign of Vasily III



Ivan's Birth, Childhood, Adolescence, Coronation and Marriage



The Era of Aleksei Adashev



The 'Government of Compromise'



The Conquest of Kazan'



The Dynastic Crisis of 1553: Domestic and Military Policy, and the Arrival of the English



The War in Livonia and the End of the 'Chosen Council'



The Death of Anastasia, and Ivan's Second Marriage



Tsar Ivan and Prince Andrei Kurbsky



The Setting Up of the Oprichnina



War in Livonia and the Zemskii Sobor of 1566



The Boyar Plot: 1) the Letters to King Sigismund



The Boyar Plot: 2) the Executions of Ivan Fedorov, Metropolitan Filipp and Vladimir of Staritsa



Armageddon



Foreign Policy and the Tatar Invasions



The End of the Oprichnina, and the Succession to the Polish-Lithuanian Crown



Grand Prince Simeon Bekbulatovich



Peace Negotiations



The Truce of Iam Zapol'sky



The Death of Ivan



Ivan's Legacy to Russia


Abbreviations


Notes


Brief Glossary


Select Bibliography


Index