num_pages: 10
description: The author of the best-selling Tolstoy, winner of France's prestigious Prix Goncourt, member of the Académie Française, and renowned expert on Russia paints yet another indelible portrait of one of Russia's imposing historical figures. Henri Troyat, author of acclaimed biographies of Catherine the Great, Tolstoy, and Turgenev, turns his attention to one of the most violent, demented rulers ever, Czar Ivan IV. Though this larger-than-life ruler inflicted torture on friends and enemies alike, destroyed villages and even killed his own son, he also forged what became 20th-century Russia.
language: English
title: Ivan the Terrible
titlecomplete: Ivan the Terrible
characters: Ivan the Terrible
genres: Russia, Biography Memoir, Russian Literature, Russian History, Nonfiction, History, World History, European History, Medieval, Biography
ratings_count: 547
publisher: Berkley