As a child, he threw dogs against the walls of the Kremlin. As an adult, he killed thousands of people and then prayed for them. Ivan the Terrible was the most infamous czar of Russia. He may have been so terrible because he had so much power. When he was three years old, his father died and he became czar, although his mother ruled until she died when he was seven. It seems that she was poisoned by the nobles.
Strangely, his first marriage was happy, but his wife Anastasia died after 13 years of marriage. Ivan believed that his advisors had poisoned her and he had everybody killed. Later he killed his own son. It seems to be the only occasion that he felt remorse and for months his howls of grief were heard coming from the royal palace. He and his people had been the victims of a personality distorted by fear, hate and unlimited power.
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