Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Russian President Vladimir Putin has draped himself in old-fashioned, medieval conceptions of Russian history to add symbolic ...

Russian archaeologist Ignatius Stelletskii's efforts to locate the library of 16th century ruler Ivan the Terrible. The ...

Pro-Kremlin activists in the city of Astrakhan have unveiled a bust of Tsar Ivan IV, also known as Ivan the Terrible, on private land after the city's administration refused to locate it on a public ...

Ivan the Terrible is the most discussed Character in the Russian history. At the same time, Ivan is the most unsolved mystery of the Russian Czars. The scale of his political achievements has always ...

When you have been watching the weather as long as I have, you tend to be hard to impress when big storms come along. That's a fancy way of saying that in my eye not all storms are created equal. Sure ...

Ivan IV transformed Russia into an empire through force, reform, and fear. Early successes gave way to paranoia, betrayal, and mass terror under his personal police. Cities were destroyed, nobles ...

A two-part historical epic film about Ivan IV of Russia made by Russian director Sergei Eisenstein. Part 1 was released in 1944 but Part 2 was not released until 1958 due to political censorship. The ...