Torturing and killing people was his hobby, and he used to rape women for fun. In childhood, he used to kill birds by piercing their eyes an...
Torturing and killing people was his hobby, and he used to rape women for fun.
- In childhood, he used to kill birds by piercing their eyes and tearing off their feathers, just to feel relaxed.
- Throwing dogs and cats from the windows, to see them suffer was his pastime.
- He used to rape women and then kill them by burying them alive, or feeding them to starving dogs and bears.
- He formed an organisation, Oprichniki, with mostly criminals as its members, wearing black robes and riding black horses, whose main purpose was to serve his orders and to kill anyone he wanted.
- He used to have women stripped naked as the target for the practice of the Oprichniki.
- He once drowned hundreds of beggars in a lake on a daily basis.
- He killed his treasurer by boiling her in a cauldron.
- In Novgorod massacre, he had killed almost 20000 people by mutilating them, and roasting them in the fire.
- The banks of Volkohov river were filled with dead bodies of men, women and children, who were tied to sleighs and were made to run in the water.
- He killed his 7th wife by drowning her because she wasn't virgin.
- He had killed almost all his friends, giving them the most painful deaths.
- Once, he got angry with his pregnant daughter-in-law because of the dress she was wearing, and beat her up, resulting in her miscarriage.
- He had an argument with his son for the same, and for this, he killed his son.[1]
He was the “Tsar of all Russia”, Ivan IV, also known as Ivan the Terrible.[2]
He lost his father at the age of 3, and his mother at the age of 8, which is said to be responsible for his mental instability.
He is the one responsible for transforming Russia from a medieval state to an empire, but he destroyed the economic conditions of Russia, and “Time of Troubles” started after his death in 1584.
He is accountable for the death of more than 100,000 people.
The cruelest of that time, Ivan.
Images source: Ivan the Terrible.
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