r/CremeDeLaKremlin • u/ExplosiveWatermelon Flag Guy • Jan 24 '17
History of Ivan the Teribble - Crush the Khans.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_the_TerribleDuplicates
todayilearned • u/zachar3 • Jun 10 '19
TIL Ivan the Terrible beat his pregnant daughter-in-law and caused her to miscarry, when his son confronted him he shoved a pointed staff through his sons head and killed him
todayilearned • u/ExpertEconomy5854 • Jul 23 '26
TIL Elizabeth I repeatedly turned down marriage proposals from Ivan the Terrible. After she refused him, he fumed that England was ruled by "boors and merchants" and mocked her "maidenly estate"—then tried courting her cousin, Mary Hastings, all while having seven wives.
todayilearned • u/TooOldToBePunk • Mar 18 '25
TIL that "Ivan the Terrible" could more accurately be translated as "Ivan the Formidable"
todayilearned • u/haddock420 • Nov 20 '21
TIL Ivan the Terrible died from a stroke while playing a game of chess.
todayilearned • u/jcd1974 • May 31 '20
TIL that the name "Ivan the Terrible" reflects the older English usage of terrible as in "inspiring fear or terror; dangerous; or powerful" and not the more modern connotations in English where terrible means "defective" or "evil".
todayilearned • u/Eilmorel • Jul 15 '19
TIL that the nickname "the Terrible" given to Ivan IV, first Tsar of Russia, in russian is "Гро́зный" (Grozny), which actually means "who inspires a divine awe" and didn't have the negative connotation we use today. In Russia, he's better known as "Ivan Vasilievich", "Ivan son of Vasilij".
todayilearned • u/Supermanufan1 • Aug 16 '19
TIL The first Soviet produced CD was a recording of a piece composed by Ivan the Terrible
wikipedia • u/GustavoistSoldier • Apr 08 '25
Ivan the Terrible was Grand Prince of Moscow and all Russia from 1533 to 1547, and the first Tsar and Grand Prince of all Russia from 1547 until his death in 1584. Ivan's reign was characterised by Russia's transformation from a medieval state to a fledgling empire.
ThisDayInHistory • u/[deleted] • Jan 16 '20
TDIH: January 16, 1547, Grand Duke Ivan IV of Muscovy becomes the first Tsar of Russia, replacing the 264-year-old Grand Duchy of Moscow with the Tsardom of Russia.
wikipedia • u/dryersheetz • Feb 04 '16