Ivan the Terrible Essay Examples

25 August 1530

March 18, 1584 (aged 53)

Tsar (1547-1584), Russia

Rurik dynasty

Ivan the Terrible, grand prince of Moscow (1533–84) and the first to be proclaimed tsar of Russia (from 1547). His reign saw the completion of the construction of a centrally administered Russian state and the creation of an empire that included non-Slav states.