About the book: 2014 / Ivan IV, nicknamed the Terrible, is perhaps the most controversial figure in our history. He, a passionate and artistic nature, received the heavy burden of caring for the young country, and he turned into a real scourge of the Russian people. A cunning politician and the leader of an unbridled oprichnina, a brave governor and a hysterical tyrant, a devout pilgrim and a bloody tyrant - which of these portraits is closer to the personality of the first Russian Tsar??