A portrait of Ivan the Terrible( Ivan IV Vasilyevich), who as Ivan IV of Russia became Tsar at the age of 17. His fearsome reputation was well founded and though intelligent and devout, he was also subject to outbreaks of paranoia with rages, and episodic outbreaks of mental instability that increased as he grew older.

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