The young Ivan accompanied his father during the Massacre of Novgorod at the age of 15. Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan, painting by Ilya Repin, 1885. Ivan the terrible and his son Ivan. He was the Grand Prince of Moscow from 1533 to 1547 and reigned as the “Tsar of all the Russias” from 1547 until he died in 1584. According to reports, Demjanjuk took part in the killing of 28,060 people during the Holocaust. His brother was Feodor. At the age of eight, Ivan’s mother died, leaving the young tsar to fend for himself as an orphan. Ivan’s aggressive character took root during his childhood. One of Russia’s most famous and controversial paintings, which depicts Ivan the Terrible cradling his dying son, has been badly damaged after a man attacked it with a metal pole in a Moscow gallery. Ivan’s father, Valili III, died in December 1533, when Ivan was just three years old, and Ivan was proclaimed the Grand Prince of Moscow, a title he held until his death. By the end of Ivan’s reign, Russia was struggling economically. Things were sometimes tense and unpleasant also with the spouses. Sivan, 14 years his collaborator's junior, says most of generation knew "there was a mistake in identifying Demjanjuk as 'Ivan the Terrible,' and the debate over whether it was the wrong guy. On November 19, 1581, Ivan beat his son's pregnant wife because he was angry with her because of the clothes she wore. Ivan the Terrible was rumored to have killed his eldest son, a truly unthinkable act, and Demjanjuk also took part in heinous murders during his time as a Nazi guard at the Sobibor concentration camp. For five weeks, he and his father would watch the Oprichniks with enthusiasm and retire to church for prayer. On November 19, 1581, Ivan beat his son's pregnant wife because he was angry with her because of the clothes she wore. It would be a prelude to the Time of Troubles which plunged the Rurik Dynasty into disarray by the time Ivan’s son Feodor ascended the throne. This article contains some facts about Ivan the Terrible, his life and reign. It felt like a bureaucratic thing, not as heroic or dramatic as the Eichmann trial. However, there is a second man in history who earned that nickname, a man equally if not more ‘terrible… Ivan’s father, the previous ruler, Vasily III, died suddenly when Ivan was just three years old, making the toddler the nominal ruler of all of Russia. When you hear the name Ivan the Terrible you might first think of the 16th-century ruler, the man crowned the first tsar of Russia who executed thousands, even his own son during a fit of rage. Ivan the Terrible, or Ivan IV, was the first tsar of all Russia. In October the city of Oryol (220 miles south of Moscow) erected the country’s first monument to Ivan IV, known as the Terrible, one of many Russian rulers who remain divisive figures today. Whether Ivan the Terrible was Demjanjuk or Marchenko, it is clear the Ivan the Terrible guard at Treblinka left his mark on the heartbroken victims who live with the scars he inflicted on their souls. Ivan started having vicious outbursts in court. She miscarried the baby as a result of the beating. Writing to his cousin Olga Freidenberg in 1941, Boris Pasternak remarked on Stalin’s unexpected glorification of Tsar Ivan IV, known as Ivan the Terrible: To our benefactor it seems that up until now we have been too sentimental…. During his reign (1533-1584), Ivan acquired vast amounts of land through ruthless means, creating a centrally controlled government. She miscarried the baby as a result of the beating. Ivan IV Vasileyevich is widely known as Ivan the Terrible or Ivan the Fearsome. Ivan was the second son of Ivan the Terrible by his first wife Anastasia Romanovna. Poisoning, drowning, being sent to a nunnery, or exiled — these were some of the things prescribed to happen had you been one of Ivan the Terrible… Ivan the Terrible transformed Russia in his forty year reign, often at immense human cost, and not without leaving an historical legacy known primarily for his episodic outbreaks of mental illness and rage. Ilya Repin: Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan, 1885. Ivan the Terrible was three years old when he became Tsar. It’s thought Ivan the Terrible killed his son during a family row after Ivan Jr.’s pregnant wife walked past the Tsar in her undergown (showing one’s undies to the Tsar was highly offensive). Ivan the Terrible, Russian Ivan Grozny, Russian in full Ivan Vasilyevich, also called Ivan IV, (born August 25, 1530, Kolomenskoye, near Moscow [Russia]—died March 18, 1584, Moscow), grand prince of Moscow (1533–84) and the first to be proclaimed tsar of Russia (from 1547).