Ivan the Terrible

Ivan IV Vasilyevich (1530-1584), known in English as Ivan the Terrible, was Grand Prince of Moscow from 1533 until his death. The first ruler to be crowned Tsar of All Russia, his reign saw the transformation of Russia into an emerging power. 
==References==
* In the Sesame Street book Monsters, Monsters!, he is spoofed as Cookie the Terrible, who cleaned out every cookie jar in Europe before he was caught red-handed in Chocolate Square.
* Pepe the King Prawn dresses as Ivan the Terrible in a pitch for a sketch on Up Late with Miss Piggy in The Muppets episode "Pig Girls Don't Cry". The idea is that he'd dance with Rizzo the Rat as Catherine the Great in "Dancing with the Czars" with Tom Bergeron.
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