ivan the terrible

Novgorod and its surrounding regions had a distinct history from the rest of Russia until fairly recently in the grand scheme of things. Until the fall of the Republic of Novgorod in 1478 its political institutions were drastically different from the ones found further south, as a Merchant...

The last Grand Prince of Moscow and first Tsar of Russia, Ivan IV's reign started on a promising note, with the conquest of the khanates of Kazan and Astrakhan, before taking a turn for the worst with the outbreak of the Livonian War and ending with self-harming actions like the Massacre of...

The Livonian War was a 25 year long conflict caused by tsar Ivan IV's ambition to expand Russia's territories in the Baltic Sea, which pit it against Sweden, Denmark and Poland, and eventually ended with a Russian defeat. What if war never broke out? According to wikipedia, one of the events...

Can boyars create a aristocratic republic during time of troubles instead of crowning Michael I ? will it become more liberal ? will it be stronger than the empire be more successful in expansion to europe ? or will it succumb to peaseant revolts abolishing serfdom ?

Could Ivan IV, tsar of Russia, somehow be elected king of Poland and grand Duke of Lithuania after Sigismund II's death in 1572? Assuming the answer is yes, could such an union spark a war in Eastern Europe? I doubt states like Sweden, the Habsburg dominions and the Ottoman Empire would like...

So let's say that Ivan IV either decided not to try to kill his son or his son missed the killing blow. Now that a reliable heir is in line for the throne, how does Ivan Ivanovich (now Ivan V) rule the country? Does he have the potential to be a competent ruler? And with the Time of Troubles...

In 15 of November 1581 Ivan IV (the Terrible/Formidable/Fearsome) ended up causing his daughter in-law to miscarriage (she was the third one, as he sent the 2 first to convents for no reason) and ended up having a fight with his estranged son, beating him in the head and causing him to colapse...

Good day fellow alternate history debaters, I have a simple question, what if, after his first attempted abdication, Ivan the terrible didn't retake the thrown?

I think it goes without saying that Ivan the Terrible was a complicated man. On the one hand, he was intelligent, devout and strong-willed. On the other, he was prone to paranoia, rages, and bouts of mental instability. While he certainly accomplished a lot, his achievements are overshadowed in...

I can honestly say I'm surprised that I'm the first (or at least I think I'm the first) to ask about this topic, considering how many threads there are on the pretender/false Dmitris. Anyway, for those of you who don't know, Dmitri of Uglich was the youngest surviving son of Ivan the Terrible...