The Image of Ivan the Terrible in Russian Folklore (Cambridge Studies in Oral and Literate Culture)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: April 11, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 279
ISBN-13: 9780521891004
Subjects: European history: c 1500 to c 1750; Folklore; c 1700 to c 1800; c 1800 to c 1900; History: World; History; History - General History; Russia; Europe - Russia & the Former Soviet Union; History / Europe / General; History / Russia (pre- & post-Soviet Union)
First sentence: Historians in nineteenth-century Russia regarded Ivan IV as a complex and contradictory character.