Vladimir of Staritsa
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Vladimir Andreyevich was the last appanage Russian prince. His complicated relationship with his cousin, Ivan the Terrible, was dramatized in Sergei Eisenstein's 1945 film Ivan the Terrible.
Goritsy Monastery near Vologda was built by Vladimir's family.
Ivan the Terrible is a two-part Soviet historical drama film produced, written and directed by Sergei Eisenstein. The film chronicles the reign of 16th-century Russian Tsar Ivan IV and details his for
Vladimir of Staritsa
…was the last appanage Russian prince. His complicated relationship with his cousin, Ivan the Terrible, was dramatized in Sergei Eisenstein's 1945 film Ivan the Terrible. The only son of Andrey of Staritsa and his wife Yefrosinya Staritskaya (née Khovanskaya), Vladimir spent his childhood under strict surveillance in…
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Sergei Eisenstein c. 1940
A 1942 drawing of Queen Elizabeth I made by Eisenstein for the film. Elizabeth was intended to have been portrayed by Mikhail Romm.
Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan on 16 November 1581 by Ilya Repin, made in the 1880s. Eisenstein considered writing an ending where Ivan dies alone after murdering his son.