Ivan Ivanovich was the second son of Russian tsar Ivan the Terrible by his first wife Anastasia Romanovna. He was the tsarevich until he suddenly died; historians generally believe that his father kil
Ivan the Terrible meditating at the deathbed of his son by Vyacheslav Schwarz (1861)
Shlem [ru] (helmet) of Ivan Ivanovich, before 1557
The wounded Ivan being cradled by his father in Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan, 1885 painting by Ilya Repin (Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow).