Ivan the Terrible

Ivan became Russia's first leader to be crowned tsar.

Ivan marries Anastasia Romanovna.

Ivan's first wife, Anastasia, dies. It sends him into a downward spiral of depression.

Ivan dies of an apparent stroke.

Ivan kills his son, Tsarevich Ivan Ivanovich, in a fit of rage.

Birth: Ivan was born to father Vasili III and mother Elena Glinskaya.

His mother, Elena, died. Bringing chaos into young Ivan's life.