Ivan the Terrible

Dan Snow's History Hit

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🗓️ 29 August 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

The name Ivan the Terrible is synonymous with brutality and ruthlessness. While Western scholars insist that the first crowned Tsar of all Russia did create a policy of mass repression and execution, others claim Ivan’s name has been tarnished by Western travellers and writers. How then should his complex and fascinating personality be understood?

In this episode of Not Just the Tudors, Professor Suzannah Lipscomb examines the evidence with Dr. Charles Halperin, one of the world's foremost historians of Ivan the Terrible.

This episode was edited by Joseph Knight and produced by Rob Weinberg.

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1:09.0	Hi, everybody. Welcome to Dan Snow's History Hit, Ivan the Terrible, such a fascinating figure in Russian history.
1:15.0	The time has come for a podcast on Ivan the Terrible.
1:18.0	You're going to be hearing from Professor Snow and Lipscomb.
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1:29.0	Ivan the Terrible, or more properly Ivan, is a name that conjures up brutality and ruthlessness in the popular imagination.
1:37.0	Over 60 million people have watched a video on YouTube, which is one of the epic rap battles of history,
1:44.0	in which Ivan boasts lyrically of his violence, including the death of his own son.
1:49.0	More seriously, Western scholars insist that Ivan did create the Aprasnima, a policy of mass repression and execution.
1:58.0	But in 2016, the Russian city of Aryal, inaugurated the first ever monument to the Tsar, celebrating how he protected his people and the Orthodox face from enemies and expanded the country's frontiers.
2:13.0	Russia's culture minister at the time argued that Ivan's violence was a myth, his name having been tarnished by Western travelers and writers.
2:22.0	Representations of Ivan Vasilievich, Grand Prince of Moscow and sovereign of all Russia from 1533 and Tsar Ivan IV from 1547 are evidently not clear cut.
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