Ivan IV

American  

noun

1. Ivan the Terrible, 1530–84, first czar of Russia 1547–84.

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Ivan IV British  

noun

1. known as Ivan the Terrible. 1530–84, grand duke of Muscovy (1533–47) and first tsar of Russia (1547–84). He conquered Kazan (1552), Astrakhan (1556), and Siberia (1581), but was defeated by Poland in the Livonian War (1558–82) after which his rule became increasingly oppressive

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Example Sentences

But that hasn’t stopped Russia from trying to make Ivan IV less “terrible.”

From New York Times

The exhibition accused the Western news media of miscasting Czar Ivan IV as “the Terrible.”

From New York Times

Down to the reign of Ivan IV., merchants enjoyed tolerably extensive privileges in Russia.

From Project Gutenberg

The Tatars were expelled about 1554 by Ivan IV. of Russia.

From Project Gutenberg

For, by the end of the seventeenth century, Russia, after having been centralized in Moscow by Ivan III, and enlarged by Ivan IV, had thrown off the Tartar yoke.

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