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The Illustrated Chronicle of Ivan the Terrible (Russian: Лицевой летописный свод, romanized: Litsevoy letopisny svod; 1560-1570s) is the largest compilation of historical information ever assembled in medieval Russia. It is also informally known as the Tsar Book (Царь-книга), in an analogy with Tsar Bell and Tsar ...
Nikolay Karamzin questioned the existence of Ivan Peresvetov and proposed the idea that it was a pseudonym for Ivan the Terrible himself, or a fabrication of later historiographers meaning to depict Ivan the Terrible and his reforms in a positive way. Most subsequent historians do not agree with the assumption that it is a pseudonym, and rather ...
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Ivan IV Vasilyevich (Russian: Иван IV Васильевич; [d] 25 August 1530 – 28 March [O.S. 18 March] 1584), commonly known as Ivan the Terrible, [e] 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. [3]
Later in the 1910s, Stelletskii began searching for the Library of Ivan the Terrible, even though historians doubted the existence of the supposed library. He attempted to obtain permission to conduct excavations in the Moscow Kremlin ; however, the Tsarist government did not allow him to.
The Lost Library of the Moscow Tsars, also known as the "Golden Library", is a library speculated to have been assembled by Grand Duke Ivan III (the Great) of Russia (r. 1460–1505) in the 16th century. It is also known as the Library of Ivan IV (Ivan the Terrible), who is
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Ivan then gifted it to the Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius, where it was kept until 1917. [1] It is now in the Russian State Library (inventory number Ф.304.3 No.7). [2] The book contains elaborate painted initials and, on some pages, decorative headpieces with architectural motives.