By my count, from 2009 to 2022, 12 state-sponsored films and TV series paying tribute to Ivan the Terrible and his rule aired in prime time on Russian TV channels. The post-Soviet rehabilitation of ...

Ivan the Terrible succeeded in taking a number of bold and decisive steps designed to strengthen the unity of the Russian state. During his rule, administrative reforms were implemented ...

The Romanov family ruled Russia from 1613 to 1917 ... The last tsar of the previous dynasty, a weak son of Ivan the Terrible, died in 1589. After which followed a period of foreign invasion ...

Archaeologists even discovered sturgeon fossils dating back to the 11th century during excavations ... was regularly served to Russian Tsar Ivan IV (Ivan the Terrible). In 1554, Dervish Ali ...

By my count, from 2009 to 2022, 12 state-sponsored films and TV series paying tribute to Ivan the Terrible and his rule aired in prime time on Russian TV channels. The post-Soviet rehabilitation of ...

By my count, from 2009 to 2022, 12 state-sponsored films and TV series paying tribute to Ivan the Terrible and his rule aired in prime time on Russian TV channels. The post-Soviet rehabilitation ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has draped himself in old-fashioned, medieval conceptions of Russian history to add symbolic weight to his authoritarian government. AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko ...