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Was Ivan the Terrible really just misunderstood?

In English we call him Ivan the Terrible, but his Russian moniker was Ivan Grozny, meaning mighty, powerful and strict. His father died when Ivan was four, making him the Grand Prince of Moscow until 1547 when he became the proper Tsar of Russia, at age seventeen. It seems the early years of his reign [...]

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