Born in 1530 to Grand Prince Vasily III and Princess Elena Glinskaya, Ivan's childhood was marked by turbulence and the turmoil of Moscow's power struggles. His father's death when he was only three ...

Ivan IV Vasilyevich was just a teenager when he was crowned czar and grand prince of all Russia on January 16, 1547. Today, ...

Why was Tsar Ivan known as "The Terrible"? His mental health issues, that made him prone to paranoia and rage among other things, caused him to leave a high death toll and general destruction ...

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 ...

Ivan the Terrible is an American sitcom that aired on CBS for five episodes during 1976. The short-lived series parodied American attitudes toward the Soviet Union during the height of the Cold War.

It may have been a slip of the tongue on the part of Patriarch Vladimir Kirill, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, but Vladimir Putin appeared to enjoy it. The Russian president smiled after the ...

The Oprichniki by Nikolai Nevrev (1888). The painting shows the last minutes of one of the aristocratic elite taken out by Ivan IV. Wikimedia Commons Ivan IV Vasilyevich was just a teenager when he ...