Ivan The Terrible Research Paper

Ivan IV or Ivan the Terrible was born in 1530 in Moscow Russia. Ivan was the first to have Czar as his official title as well as the Grand Duke of Moscow. Not much is known of Ivan’s early years except that his father, Vasily III, died when Ivan was three and his mother, Jelena Glinsky, died when he was Eight. After his parents died the members of the nobility treated Ivan very poorly with lack of nourishment and with lack of love. Ivan’s terribleness is sought to have came from his childhood. Since he was hardly looked after as a child he took part in cruel and unusual things. He wasn’t able to act out with the nobility so he took his frustrations out on innocent animals; he tortured them till death. Ivan always killed and harmed people in various ways like hanging, beatings, and sometimes buried alive. …show more content…
Although he was smart, he did have strong outbreaks of uncontrollable rage. Ivan and his eldest son got into a disagreement one day and he struck him dead with a pointed- metal staff. There is a ton of favorable evidence showing that he had abnormal psychology throughout his lifetime. Ivan was married to Anastasia and he loved her greatly; her death in 1560 filled him with great sorrow. He was married at least five more times after her, but he didn’t really feel the same love for them as he did for Anastasia. (Historians don’t know the exact amount of wives he had, but they can agree with more than five.) Then in 1584 he died from fainted/ a stroke. Ivan IV is called “The Terrible” in English but in all actuality, his name in Russian translated to “The Awesome”. Terrible was a name given to Ivan as respect saying that he was