The Terrible Greatness Of Ivan the IV The era of Ivan the IV is one that triggers some of the most horrific nightmares to surface. It was a reign that spread a blanket of terror throughout Russia as Ivan the IV took his role as the first tsar to be bloody and tyrannical. Claims of pathological elements in his character cannot be denied as many lives were doomed to the fate of unnecessary death and …showed first 75 words of 663 total…

…showed last 75 words of 663 total…its share of positive developments: obtaining the Volga route from the Mongolians, establishing a link with England through the White Sea route, acquiring a small hold on the Baltic coast- all are factors that built the strong foundation of the growth of the trading world of Russia. Ivan IV’s success in prying open the doors to a foreign frontier enabled the seventeenth century to be marked with the importance of a beginning business economy.