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Ivan the Terrible
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  • Farmer had said he thought it one of the world's most beautiful buildings, but marred by the fact that it had been built to celebrate Ivan the Terrible's bloody victory over the Tartars.†  (source)
  • Ivan the Terrible, isn't that a work of genius?†  (source)
  • Oprichniki-security troops of Ivan the Terrible.†  (source)
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  • Piedmont did not realize that his staff reserved the same affection for him that Russian peasants held for Ivan the Terrible.†  (source)
  • , and Francois-Villon Gant, and Ahasuerus Gant, and Mithridates Gant, and Artaxerxes Gant, and Edward-theBlack-Prince Gant; Stilicho Gant, and Jugurtha Gant, and Vercingetorix Gant, and Czar-Ivan-the-Terrible Gant.†  (source)
  • The chauffeur, a Russian Czar of the period of Ivan the Terrible, was a self-appointed guide, and the resplendent names—Cannes, Nice, Monte Carlo—began to glow through their torpid camouflage, whispering of old kings come here to dine or die, of rajahs tossing Buddha's eyes to English ballerinas, of Russian princes turning the weeks into Baltic twilights in the lost caviare days.†  (source)
  • Is the movement of the Russian people eastward to Kazan and Siberia expressed by details of the morbid character of Ivan the Terrible and by his correspondence with Kurbski?†  (source)
  • Didn't Ivan the Terrible contain scenes so comically overwrought, amid the undeniable power of the montage, that you laughed and caught your breath more or less simultaneously?†  (source)
  • He was known among the defense bar as Ivan the Terrible because of his complete lack of compassion for criminal defendants and because he treated defense attorneys almost as badly as he treated their clients.†  (source)
  • He was even the author of two books, one on the land policies of Ivan the Terrible, the other a study of Saint-Just.†  (source)
  • If the conditions under which power is entrusted consist in the wealth, freedom, and enlightenment of the people, how is it that Louis XIV and Ivan the Terrible end their reigns tranquilly, while Louis XVI and Charles I are executed by their people?†  (source)
  • Some believe Ivan the Terrible was mad from syphilis.†
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