Screen LibraryIvan the Terrible：first tsar of Russia
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Yale University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | New Haven [Conn.] London |
| Publication Dates: | 2005. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | xxi, 484 p., [16] p. of plates: ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: | 0300097573 (cl. : alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | K835 |
| CLC: | K835.127 |
| Call Number: | K835.127/I932M |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [452]-468) and index. 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. |