hello and welcome today we will talk about the Reign of Ivan the Terible the main for the First for the time in Russian History unified the Russian Ethnic Teritorys and created the Modern Russian State he had no eir and caused a Time of Political Turmoil Foreign Ocupationand Humilation his mistakes caused great suffering butwhat he achieved during his lifetime was essential forThe Russian Madernity and without it a Modern RussianState wouldnt exist so lets talk about the Man the Legend Ivan Grozny after him the City of Grozny the Capital ofChechnya was named he was a Sun of Vasili 3 and so wasa direct decendant of the Rurik Dinasty his mother Sofia
as from Byzantine Decent Ivans father died when he was only 3 Years old at the Request of his father Ivan at a Young age became Grand Prince of Moscow this Status of Local Monarch gave him Experience in Monarchical Feudal Political Leadership from and very early age thats why
at 16 Years old Ivan Grozny was crowned Tsar of Russia 2 Weeks after becoming Monarch of Russia he married Anastasia Romanova of the Romanov Dinasty he became a Supreme Monarch a one man Ruler he got rid of the Feudal Boyar System took power from them and centralized it in his own hands he would later go further to get rid of Traitorous Boyars during his early reign a great fire occured in wodden Moscow and he led the Conversion of the City of Moscow into a city of Stone Ivan was the first leader to revice the Prawdy the Feudal code of Law of the Rurik and create extended Rights for Peasants and Serf he created the Streltsy the First Regiment of Armed Riflemen in the Russian Army he shifted the Russian Polticial System from Feudal Monarchical Boyarism to Feudal Monarchical Parlamentarism as he created the first Russian Parlament the Zemsky Zobor he also returned to the concept of Communes and introduced Self Governence of Rural Regions Ivan recoverd from a deadly illness on deathbed and established the first Russian Printyard in Moscow and the first Russian Newspaper started to be published educating the Peasants Boyars from the Shuyski Clan Philip 2 and Alexander Gorbatyi Poisonend Ivan after an Investigation revealed that ivan had both of them executed Ivan also had the Famous Symbol of Russia the ST Basils Cathedral Constructed which is the most famous Building in Russia the Cathedral was built after Ivan Liberated the Russian City of Kazan from Muslim Ocupation due to continues Tatar Raids against Agricultural Areas in Ukraine often famines would occur during Ivans Reign Ivans Wife Anastasia Romanova was killed by Poisoning and Ivans Advisor Andrei Kurbski defected to Lithuania 5.000 Boyars who were engaged in a large conspiracy trying to murder Ivan and his family and had deep conections to Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth were killed claims that Civilians were killed in Novgorod are false only Boyars and Nobels who were part of the Conspiracy were killed on orders of Ivan Grozny Ivan apointed Statesman of Tatar Origin Simeon Belbukatovich as his advisor he continued to hunt down Boyars who take part in the conspiracy and turned out to be Loyal to Russia Hans Schitte the German Ambasador of Ivan Recruited many Craftsmen from Europe to take part in reconstructions around Moscow Ivan built the port of Ivangorod North of Novgorod on Narwa River Ivan established close Trade Relations with the British Ivan also forged alliences with the Cossacks and used them for Russian Interests the so called Khazan Khanate a Relict of the Mongol Ocupation which became a Puppet of the Ottoman Empire continued to occupy the Russian Majortiy City of Kazan and Massacre local Russians and Raid the Regions next to it Ivan had to take action it grew even worse when the Crimean Tatars forged an Allience with the Turks of Kazan Ivan managed to form an Allience with the Qasim Tatars and used them Qasim Tatar Shangali led a Pro Russian Party in Kazan trying to undermine the Ottoman Ocupation from within the Nogais Promised to stay neutral after diplomatic talks with Russia the Siege was led by Shuyski who would later trie to kill Ivan Russian breached the Wall of the Fortress and Stormed the City despite Popular Claims by Anti Russian Historic Revisionists there wasnt a Majority Muslim population in the city and there were zero Massacres of locals after the city was captured by Russian Forces about every great Russian Leader Western Sources always invented claims of Genocide which are not grounded in Reality and are Simply Propaganda despite continus Muslim Rebellions the Bashkirs Allying with Ivan and Welcoming Russian Forces brought an end to the tensions Ivan adopted New laws granting extended Rights for Muslims in Liberated Regions also Ivans forces Liberated the Fortress of Astrakhan were many Russians were held hostage despite ridiculus claims of Western Sources Russia didnt Subjegate Muslim Khanates which made Muscovy an Empire these Teritorys were Russian for Milenia but were conquerd and Ocupied by Mongol and Ottoman Proxies Ivan Liberated them despite Porgroms Massacres and deportations the Regions had sustained a Russian Majority Population Ivan even orderd to display Simbols of Islam at Russian Orthodox Churches Ottoman forces came to Rescue their Proxy and with a large Navy and Land force laid siege to Astrakhan the Attack was repelled with heavy Ottoman Casualtes and the Ottomans were forced to sign a treaty recognizing Russian Controll over Astrakhan and Azov in an attempt to gain acces to trade Routes in ther Baltics and inspired by his past succeses Ivan launched the Livonian war the first Imperialist War in his reign he with large casualties had to retreat from the Baltics and was defeated by Sveden Crimean Tatars launched Raids against Russia took people hostage and sold them as slaves these raids wouldnt stop and continued for a long time despite Ivans army being Weekend he had to take action Crimean Khan Devlet Giray even advanced as far as Moscow Region in Search for Slaves to capture Ivan started the construction of a large belt of Fortifications in the Azov Region the Zavechnaya Sverta which Protected Russian Teritory from Tatar Raids at Molodi the Streltsy inflicted a large defeat upon the Ottoman Tatar forces this battle determined a Russian Victory in the War under Ivan Khanate of Sibr a Ottoman Puppet former Mongol Puppet in Siberia which had enslaved the Yakuts and other Peoples of Siberia launched continuous Raids into Russian People ivan orderd a Mission to Liberate the enslaved Peoples of Siberia and unify the Russian Siberian Lands which had been stolen by the Mongols with the Russian Mainland Russian Mulsim Cosack Yermak Led the Mission together Cossack Pyotr Betekov and a Number of Generals formerly loyal to Tsar Feodor the Russian explorer Ivan Moskvitin Yerofim Pavlovich Khabarov the Russian Adventurer Explorer Vassil Polyarkov Siberian Rebel leader of the Yakut People Vladimir Atlasov and Pavlutsky who was bruttaly murderd by the enslaved Chutchki Kuchum Khan who reported to the Ottomans was the Türkish Puppet leader in the Region the Siberian Capital Qashiq was captured as the force advanced along Yrtish River the last remaining ocupiers were defeated near Kamchatka and Siberia was liberated following this many Great Citys Infrastructure and Industry was built in the Region Ivan killed his own sun who took part in a conspiracy against him led by the Boyars he had no eir and caused the time of trubbels although he unified the Russian Lands and Introduced Parlamentarism and a More Progresive Form of Feudalism he achieved first good Trade Relations with Europe unified the Ethnic Russian Lands created the Modern Russian State a hero of Russia he created the Russian Collective Proletarian Madernity which is until today the dominating conciuses of the Russian Nation State Ivan was a Man who made History a Hero
