How Quickly They Forgot: Ivan IV in Muscovite Historical Memory
Journal: Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University History
Year: 2018

This article deals with the history and historical memory of medieval Russia. Because sources written after the death of Ivan the Terrible (1533-1584) figure prominently in historical studies of his life and times, the accuracy of information about him in Muscovite historical memory is a vital concern. Meanwhile, no one has systematically posed this question as far the corpus of relevant sources as a whole is concerned. A comprehensive survey reveals that late sixteenth-and seventeenth-century M