About the book: year / In the terrible days of the war, when the Germans were rushing to Moscow, A. N. Tolstoy’s play about Ivan the Terrible came to Joseph Stalin’s desk. After reading it and, apparently, thinking about something, Stalin wrote one word on the back side several times - “Teacher”. Teacher... but in what?.. Stalin’s love for Grozny is connected with a certain most important question that our great historian Karamzin once asked. In this book, Edward Radzinsky talks about two of the most mysterious bloody Russian tsars…