This ruler unified the Church through the Council of the Hundred Chapters and established an assembly known as the Zemsky Sobor.
This ruler unified the Church through the Council of the Hundred Chapters and established an assembly known as the Zemsky Sobor. This founder of the streltsy, he was aided by political policemen known as oprichniks, who helped in his fight against the boyars, whom he suspected of poisoning his first wife. He caused a (*) miscarriage in his stepdaughter by beating her, and also killed his son with a blow to the head. Name this first Czar of Russia, nicknamed for his ferocity.
This ruler unified the Church through the Council of the Hundred Chapters and established an assembly known as the Zemsky Sobor.
{Ivan the Terrible} [or {Ivan IV}; or {Ivan Grozny}]