Tsar ivan iv vasilyevich the terrible. 1533-1584. Impressionable by nature, but not having received a proper upbringing, from childhood a witness to the tyranny of the boyars, ivan iv in the first period of his reign was active and kind: he convened a zemsky sobor, conquered kazan, where he erected a cross for the first church, established relations with england, but after the death of his first wife, anastasia romanovna, and with the removal of sylvester and adashev, the oprichnina and executions was terrible for everyone. During his reign, yermak conquered siberia. Date: 1896.
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