Ivan the Terrible
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Ivan IV Vasilyevich, commonly known as 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 158
Forensic facial reconstruction of Ivan IV by Mikhail Gerasimov, 1963
16th-century portrait of Ivan by Hans Weigel
Portrait of Ivan IV by Viktor Vasnetsov, 1897 (Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow)
The Oprichniki by Nikolai Nevrev (1888). The painting shows the last minutes of boyarin Feodorov, who was arrested for treason. To mock his alleged ambitions on the tsar's title, the nobleman was given the tsar's regalia before his execution.
Feodor I of Russia
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Feodor I Ioannovich or Fyodor I Ivanovich, nicknamed the Blessed, was Tsar of all Russia from 1584 until his death in 1598.
Ivan the Terrible
…heir, Ivan Ivanovich; he might also have caused the miscarriage of the latter's unborn child. This left his younger son, the politically ineffectual Feodor Ivanovich, to inherit the throne, a man whose rule and subsequent childless death led to the end of the Rurik dynasty and the beginning of the Time of Troubles…
Forensic facial reconstruction by Mikhail Gerasimov, 1963
Coronation order of Feodor, 1584
Feodor Ioannovich presents a golden chain to Boris Godunov by Aleksey Kivshenko
Depiction of Feodor on the Tsar Cannon