Russia (Under IV) - Terrible (1 Jan 1533 Jahr – 1 Jan 1584 Jahr)

Beschreibung:

- Gave himself the name
- Nobels took "care" of Ivan as a child
- they were very cruel to Ivan
- led to his hatred of the Nobels
- takes power when he was 16 y/o

- He becomes the first Czar

Expansion
- Goes East for Central Fur Trade
- Volga River - links Moscow to the Caspian
- able to trade with the Ottomans
- Cossacks: where peasants were required to live in newly acquired lands

- reduced the boyars power

Oprichnina
- Takes land from Nobels
- Nobels were forced to live in Moscow
- Ivan has his own body guards
-> gave them the complete power to torcher or kill anyone that may be a treat to him

- Execution
1. Boiling
2. Drawn and quartered
3. Impalement
4. Roasting

- Novgorod
- Russia's second biggest city. His military Launched an attack against the people. The men were fried, and the Women and Children were thrown into a icy river (within a few weeks 12,000 people died).


Cultural contributions
- Introduced printing
- St Basil's Cathedral
-> Shows the power of Russia (and wealth).

Has no successor

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