Ufa
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Ufa is the capital and largest city of Bashkortostan, Russia. The city lies at the confluence of the Belaya and Ufa rivers, in the centre-north of Bashkortostan, on hills forming the Ufa Plateau to th
Ufa view from Belaya river 2022 05
Lalə Tulpan məscidi 1
Monument to Salawat Yulayev, Ufa 2
Уфа с высоты птичьего полёта на закате
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
Ufa
…and the fourth-most populous city in the Volga Federal District. The city was founded in 1574, when a fortress was built on the site by the order of Ivan the Terrible. Ufa was made capital of Ufa Governorate in 1865 when the governorate split from Orenburg Governorate. Ufa's population expanded during the early 20th…
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.