Ivan the Terrible is perhaps one of the most ambiguous and odious personalities in Russian history. Talented statesman, wise reformer and … A bloody tyrant, a man who plunged his people into the chaos of monstrous repression What was he like, Ivan the Terrible, the founder of the Moscow kingdom, a sovereign who had a great and very ambiguous influence on the course of historical events? What role did he play in the formation and decline of a powerful state?The course of his thoughts and desires could not be predicted by anyone. He combined a cruel tyrant and a naive child, and his associates were called servants of the devil. He gave orders for executions, and then spent long nights in penitential prayer, he wore monastic robes and changed seven wives... The day of his death was predicted by the Lapland witches... The great sovereign of a great country who is he really?