Ivan the Terrible

A Captivating Guide to the First Tsar of Russia and His Impact on Russian History

By: Captivating History

Narrated by: Jamie Peters

Length: 3 hrs and 6 mins

Publisher's summary

If you want to discover the captivating life of Ivan the Terrible, then pay attention...

Considering that he has gone down in history as Ivan the Terrible, the first tsar of Russia could hardly have been a boy scout. As his name suggests, Ivan had an utterly terrifying presence during his 37-year-long reign.

Ivan's story is not only one of brutality, it is also a tale of great suffering. It's the story of a little boy whose father died when he was just a toddler and a story of a child whose mother was poisoned when he was only seven years old. This was a boy who had to struggle to survive as the warring nobility threatened, molested, and harassed him endlessly while he tried to protect his only friend - his deaf and mute little brother.

This is also the tale of a young man who was desperate for power to defend himself and found it when he was made the tsar. And it's almost the story of a good and capable ruler whose wild temper was soothed by the presence of a tsaritsa who seemed capable of calming the storm that was Ivan's mind. But sadly, Ivan's beloved first wife was poisoned and died in agony, plunging him into a cauldron of darkness and depression that produced the tyrant that has gone down in history as a monster.

In this book, you'll discover his story.

In Ivan the Terrible: A Captivating Guide to the First Tsar of Russia and His Impact on Russian History, you will discover topics such as:

• Russia Before the First Tsar
• A Lineage of Heroes
• The Birth of an Emperor
• Assassination
• Becoming Terrible
• The Coronation of the First Tsar
• An Ambitious Young Ruler
• Death in the Family
• Betrayal
• Revenge
• Two Killings
• The Legacy of Ivan “The Terrible”
• And much, much more!

So, if you want to learn more about the history of Ivan the Terrible, click on the "buy now" button.

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Good One

You owe it to yourself to listen to this book, but you would be well-advised to save it for a day when you're more in the mood for intellectual stimulation than mere entertainment.

Well Written Book

Well written book. It is amazing how ridiculous people were with religion. Crawling through the streets ha!

Really Captivating

The author of this audiobook manages to make an interesting subject more captivating. Recommended to all.

Amazing Job

Amazing how so much information got packed into such a short audio. And the narrator was stellar with perfect pitch and flow. I loved it!

Five Stars

This audiobook is probably the closest history of Ivan; remember Eisenstein's films were subject to the propaganda of Stalin.

Well Written

A decent audiobook that covers the major points of the life of Ivan IV. More importantly, it provides the viewer with the life events forming the famous Tsar of Russia, from his troubled childhood, being surrounded by enemies, and his military/political exploits

Well Crafted

Thought-provoking audiobook on Ivan the Terrible (or Awesome, Fearsome, Formidable) - In the end, you can take all the information and try and figure out; was he a great founder of a nation, psychopathic ruler, both? Truth is often grey and this book does a great job of showing that.

Wonderful

A wonderful audiobook that skirts the bloody ruler portrait and creates a new profile of a ruler who becomes more and more psychopathic as his paranoia increases.

A Real Terrible

Amazing audiobook can get long at some points but a great depiction of an orthodox saint/ martyr and the crazy ivan the terrible.

well done

it provided the biography of Ivan the terrible. his reign his marriages. it was very rough time in Russia.