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Ivan IV

Type Figure Region Grand Principality of Moscow Time 1530–1584 Also known as Ivan the Terrible

Ruler of the Grand Principality of Moscow, born in Moscow in 1530, he succeeded as Grand Prince of Moscow at age three.…

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  1. 1530Moscow · MoscowBorn in the Moscow Kremlin in 1530, son of Vasily III; after his father's death in 1533, Ivan succeeded at only three years of age with the support of his mother Elena and a regency council of nobles, and the Moscow court entered a long period of regency and factional struggle.

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