The 1906 caption reads “DEATH OF IVAN THE TERRIBLE.—This hideous tyrant in one of his rages slew his eldest and favorite son. Remorse for the deed weighed on him, he became subject to fainting spells, and finally expired in one of these. He had just interrupted a game of chess to berate his only surviving son, a half imbecile; and it may have been the mingled rage and despair at this incapable heir which overpowered the monarch. His son, protected able woman to whom he had been wedded, stares helplessly at his dying parent.” Ivan IV Vasilyevich, commonly known in English as Ivan the Terrible,
The 1906 caption reads “DEATH OF IVAN THE TERRIBLE.—This hideous tyrant in one of his rages slew his eldest and favorite son. Remorse for the deed weighed on him, he became subject to fainting spells, and finally expired in one of these. He had just interrupted a game of chess to berate his only surviving son, a half imbecile; and it may have been the mingled rage and despair at this incapable heir which overpowered the monarch. His son, protected able woman to whom he had been wedded, stares helplessly at his dying parent.” Ivan IV Vasilyevich, commonly known in English as Ivan the Terrible, was the grand prince of Moscow from 1533 to 1547 and the first Tsar of all Russia from 1547 to 1584. Ivan was the son of Vasili III, the Rurikid ruler of the Grand Duchy of Moscow.
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