So... he abdicated to get absolute power? That's a pro gamer move.

@caad5258

4 жыл бұрын

outstanding move!

@ChristianAuditore14

4 жыл бұрын

40D chess

@Gala-yp8nx

4 жыл бұрын

Sounds like an exploit the devs missed. I bet the Russian forums were pretty salty when Ivan was still playing.

@JakeandElwoodBlues

4 жыл бұрын

It’s a bold move Cotton. Let’s see if it pays off.

@jadenk1409

4 жыл бұрын

200iq move

What if Russia was big? Said Ivan, trying not to be terrible.

@dariushenker5400

4 жыл бұрын

"We could make a religion out of -" "no don't"

@goodmorning8526

4 жыл бұрын

"OK fair enough"

@OneRichMofo

4 жыл бұрын

I dont get it

@Nic5Cyprus

4 жыл бұрын

@@OneRichMofo Bill Wurtz history of the entire world, I guess

@hectisch1727

4 жыл бұрын

“China is whole again” ”Then it broke again”

Fun fact "Grozny" in polish (another slavic language) means "dangerous" which I think is more fitting.

@nebeskisrb7765

3 жыл бұрын

In Serbian it means "disgusting" lel

@PiastTorun

3 жыл бұрын

@sa Truly beautiful my slavic brothers

@nebeskisrb7765

3 жыл бұрын

@sa It's kinda pain in the ass when you're learning another Slavic language. You see a word, you recognize it, think you know what it means, and then you learn it has a completely unrelated meaning.

@idiocrat3744

3 жыл бұрын

In russian it ain't anymore used but in ancient Russian it means the same

@Pajdas610

3 жыл бұрын

@@nebeskisrb7765 "Grozni" does not mean "disgusting".

He used reverse psychology. What a lad. Ivan: Im leaving because of these nobles. People: Come back plz. Ivan: oh alright... under one condition.

@australianword3812

3 жыл бұрын

@@alexandrep4913 your point being?

@kindadumb916

3 жыл бұрын

@@australianword3812 we might never know..

@jancyraniak4739

3 жыл бұрын

That's not reverse psychology, that's being passive agressive xD

@sorcierenoire8651

Жыл бұрын

@@alexandrep4913 cope

@spirit9686

Жыл бұрын

@@alexandrep4913 "Nah, you're wrong, goofy westerner. *Agrees with what they just said*" ??? lol

“What are you going to do? Beat me to death with a sceptre?” Turns out YES 😂

@eisenkrieg553

4 жыл бұрын

-Man beaten to death with a Sceptre.

@deathsomenow2196

4 жыл бұрын

EisenKrieg that is some breaking news

@aroundhere1200

4 жыл бұрын

*meat scepter*

@arianas0714

4 жыл бұрын

BREAKING NEWS: A man was beaten to death with a Sceptre. ”What are you gonna do? Beat me to death with a sceptre?” - said the man before his death.

@VVdeRibas

4 жыл бұрын

Yeeet actually this is a very recent myth. Probably his son was poisoned by someone else.

well once while playing Crusader Kings 2 I got the title of "the Impotent" for failing to impregnated my wife

@oihanlarranegi472

4 жыл бұрын

Imagine having the whole world know you as the guy who couldn't get a child. Oof.

@alexmikhylov

4 жыл бұрын

she failed to get pregnant when you are a tzar you've got to talk like one

@dominikdobrowolski3908

4 жыл бұрын

You failed to go full Henry the VIII on her.

@someoneonearth1617

4 жыл бұрын

I got ‘the Bloodhound’...

@philemon26

4 жыл бұрын

LOL

I remember reading this a long time ago, so I might get some details wrong, but I think Ivan's deep seated hatred for the nobility came from losing his parents to court intrigue and the power schemes of the nobility, becoming an orphan at a very early age and growing up around those same bolyars that were complicit and seeing much more bloodshed. That's why he could never trust them.

@Vitorruy1

2 жыл бұрын

I played CK2, I understand how he feels

@HappyAspid

2 жыл бұрын

He had an awfull childhood, that made him a bit paranoid from the very start.

@promethium-145

Жыл бұрын

@@HappyAspid The nobility also made him dress in rags and sleep outside in the cold, barely giving him enough to eat. This probably contributed to his murder of animals, and eventually humans. Child abuse is one helluva drug.

@pushista9322

Жыл бұрын

@@HappyAspid He had a good reason to be paranoid. He launched a big war in the Baltic sea, an access to which was desperately needed to modernize the military and protect the country against future European invasions. But right then Ivan accidentally found out that some influencial members of elite were planning to kill him. He was terrified and naturally took a different approach to domestic politics.

@PrincessLockette

Жыл бұрын

So kinda like Peter the Great?

So, a better translation for modern context might be something like "Ivan the Fearsome" or "Ivan the Dangerous"

@DieFlabbergast

2 жыл бұрын

Ivan the Terrible is the name by which he has been known in English since his own lifetime. "Terrible" meaning "terrifying" is NOT archaic English. We STILL refer to "a terrible storm," "a terrible earthquake," "a terrible tragedy" and so on. "Terrible" meaning "bad" or "not up to standard" is colloquial English, and would NOT be used in a respectable serious book, such as a history or philosophy textbook. ANYONE with an IQ of more than 90 knows very well what the "terrible" in this Tsar's name means. We do NOT have to dumb down the language for the benefit of a few morons.

@SixteenJacobsCreams

2 жыл бұрын

@@DieFlabbergast What year did you come from? Terrible has meant 'low quality' for decades and this is in the definition listed in the Cambridge Dictionary. Both meanings are standard English.

@Mastakilla91

Жыл бұрын

@@SixteenJacobsCreams "terrible" comes from "terror".

@chelvo56

Жыл бұрын

Maybe terrifying would be better of a term

@Your_President_Kanye_East

Жыл бұрын

In modern context, he would be Ivan Not To Be Fucked With. Doesn't really roll off the tongue, though.

Grozny is actually closer to "the one who is feared" or "storm-like". Great video as always!

@dominikdobrowolski3908

4 жыл бұрын

Same in polish. The terrible is pretty bad translation

@cageybee7221

4 жыл бұрын

so "Ivan the Terror" would have been better?

@bakedbread9443

4 жыл бұрын

@@dominikdobrowolski3908 nah, the problem is our understanding of the word terrible. in the past, "terrible" meant "invoking terror" just like "awesome" meant "invoking awe" or "horrible" meaning "invoking horror". the older meaning of terrible perfectly describes Ivan IV, but the modern meaning makes him sound evil

@leonidartemiev5668

4 жыл бұрын

@@cageybee7221Well kind of I suppose. The word Grozny is made from the word "groza", which means thunderstorm, and it shows his unstable nature and explosive and character, so something like "The terror" or "the terrifying" would be good enough. Much better than terrible, that`s for sure.

@dominikdobrowolski3908

4 жыл бұрын

Ivan the dreadful for example

"What are you gonna do? Beat me to death with a sceptre?" Last words of a man who got beaten to death with a sceptre.

@nathanhiggers4606

3 жыл бұрын

The last words were "ай, блять, больно, не надо"

@isaiahsmith6016

2 жыл бұрын

Pretty lackluster choice of final words if I'm being honest.

@stevenredpath9332

2 жыл бұрын

He got off lightly. One noble had a hole drilled through his body and thick string (or similar) threaded through the hole which was then pulled back and forth. He died, painfully.

@homoe7976

2 жыл бұрын

"What are you gonna do? Beat me to death with a sceptre?" "Stop! You're beating me to death with a sceptre!"

@tyronepowell147

Жыл бұрын

Lmfaoooooooooo 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣

"Aside from developing absolute rule, instituting a secret police, massacring a city and beating his own son to death with a sceptre, there isn't too much he did differently to other rulers."

@steve8610

2 жыл бұрын

He didn't develop absolute rule, absolutism already existed in Europe, particularly in France. And yeah, besides what he did to his son, he was pretty much the same as all the other European monarchs of his time.

@robkirchhof133

2 жыл бұрын

@@steve8610 "Aside from developing absolute rule (in the state he ruled), instituting a secret police, massacring a city and beating his own son to death with a sceptre, there isn't too much he did differently to other rulers."

@steve8610

2 жыл бұрын

@@robkirchhof133 I'd also nix the “instituting a secret police force” and “massacring a city”. Those were certainly not abnormal actions. The 30 Years War, for example, saw the monarchs of France, Denmark, Sweden and Spain and Germany/Holy Roman Empire do much, _much_ worse.

@robkirchhof133

2 жыл бұрын

@@steve8610 No doubt it was a bad time across Europe, but i haven't heard of too many others " beating his own son to death with a sceptre", right? So can we agree he was a terrible father at least?

@marcospatricio8283

Жыл бұрын

@@robkirchhof133 We can. But honestly, murdering family wasn't that uncommon either. Specially between uncles and nephews. Ivan technically also murdered his grandchild, since the fight that led to the murder of Ivan the younger supposedly was proompted by an abortion Yelena Sheremeteva had, after Ivan Father beat her up.

Many kings and queens who had bad names like Bloody Mary or Ivan the Terrible actually gained those nicknames because of their meddling with the nobility or the church or both.

How Great was Catherine The Great? How Great was Peter the Great? How Great was Frederick the Great?

@John-Ginger

4 жыл бұрын

In one word? Great!

@Pawn2e4

4 жыл бұрын

They got nothing on Alexander and Alfred

@ErikHare

4 жыл бұрын

None of them have anything on Tarquin Superbus by name. And he was so awful that they got rid of Kings for hundreds of years and declared a republic

@chuckles5689

4 жыл бұрын

How Fat was Louis the Fat?

@tihanyidani3862

4 жыл бұрын

How Silent was William the Silent?

Thank you for another great video! Ivan before his first wife died was actually a kind and beloved ruler; she is believed to have been softening his negative treats. After she died, they surfaced; remember that Ivan's mom was murdered by boyars practically in his eyes, so he disliked them. In the first part of his reign he actually tried to be 'not like them'. But then he ended up worse than them...

@acp4567

2 жыл бұрын

They used to treat his back pain with mercury, he went fucking nuts.

@promethium-145

Жыл бұрын

@@acp4567 They also abused him as a child. I wonder how things would've turned out if his wife didn't die prematurely.

@ramon1954

Жыл бұрын

He was also paranoid the Boyars had actually poisoned his first wife iirc

@Stejers

Жыл бұрын

​@@ramon1954 you know what they say, you are not being paranoid if they really are after you In a study it was found lead in the hair of ivans wife (lead is poison)

Ivan is like that one guy who would be labled as terrible by a group of friends, meanwhile the group of friends do the same thing he did only probably worse

@MrBrock314

2 жыл бұрын

I mean, when you're all bad, it doesn't really matter who gets the nickname of Terrible.

@knockknock5231

Жыл бұрын

Charles IX and Catherine de Medici have left the chat.

@jamesson1154

Жыл бұрын

@@MrBrock314 he’s referring to the boyars. They terrorized Ivan when he was a child. He just returned the favor

"they were only good at repressing people but terrible at fighting competent enemies" Colombian police in 2021: why do this sounds similar?

@Thomas_Name

2 жыл бұрын

Every normal healthy person ever.

@Nasrudith

2 жыл бұрын

That is a common thing with dictatorships and selecting for loyalty and willingness to do terrible things instead of actual competence. Reality ensues when facing competent foes while not vastly outresourcing them.

@ellismarquez8410

2 жыл бұрын

*Venezuelan police in 2021

@chuckleshelicopterwigwamjo7315

Жыл бұрын

*Russian army in 2022

@plumebrise4801

Жыл бұрын

French police in a nutshell .

Abdicate only to make yourself a Absolute monarch ? Ivan the Terrible: *I'm Gonna Do What's Called a Pro Gamer Move*

@marjanp

4 жыл бұрын

It's called 4D chess.

@eap1234

3 жыл бұрын

Stolen

2:55 “What are you gonna do? Beat me to death with a sceptre?” *Turns out, yes.* 😂

@rembrandt972ify

3 жыл бұрын

Famous last words.

@sergueileonardoafonin7950

3 жыл бұрын

There's even a famous painting depicting this.

@trololoev

11 ай бұрын

"Also the fact that he killed his son was just a rumor. His son was actually poisoned. He was sick for some time before his death(like a month or so), and when his remains were observed in a laboratory in 1963 there were found very high levels of quicksilver, 32 times the normal amount."

This reminds me of that scene in 'The Great' where Peter expresses his desire to have a nickname like his father (Peter the Great), and one of his friends says "we haven’t had Terrible for a long time, everyone likes a good Terrible."

Every time a video has someone running happily through a field of flowers, I can't help but laugh uncontrollably.

@iamsithazagoth3728

11 ай бұрын

Rumor has it, that after Ivan beat his son to death with a scepter, he ran happily through a field of flowers.

In other words, although it wasn't the original meaning of the word, Ivan ended up being terrible anyway

@JonyTony2018

4 жыл бұрын

It’s not the current meaning of the Russian word either. It means someone who inspires fear.

@JoeSmith-sl9bq

4 жыл бұрын

Well he ended the Kazan Tatars and thus stopped their slave raids.

@TheManinBlack9054

4 жыл бұрын

Грозный literally means storm-like in Russian i.e. fearful or dreadful

@sgsggsgsshshs8900

4 жыл бұрын

He expanded his kingdom and brought down the boyars (aristocrat) power. To put it simple, he reduced the centralisation on the aristocrats but that thing made the nobles alike mad and tried to bring him down (ex. build nobles coalition to oppose him, wrote things to smear his reputation reputation, and so on). That's why he build the 'NKVD look alike' to secure his position. PS: Well, Louis XVI was nicknamed as the great, but even so he still ended up in the guillotines because of his 'tyranny'. On the king ivan's case, his nickname (The Terrible) was more like he was feared by his enemies inside and even outside his kingdom. :)

@dankmemes8714

4 жыл бұрын

Hey you know the supreme leader

Terrible enough to not be in civilization games

@PANZERFAUST90

4 жыл бұрын

but Genghis Kahn was okay lol

@varana

4 жыл бұрын

Russia has other rulers to choose from. Mongolia - not so much. :D

@wesleybarton3423

4 жыл бұрын

AOE 3 does have him as the Russian leader though.

@crocodileguy4319

4 жыл бұрын

Well since for Sweden they literally chose the worst leader in the country's history because she was a woman, I'm pretty sure they would but Ivan the terrible into all their games, if he had a box.

@omologo95

4 жыл бұрын

@@PANZERFAUST90 Genghis was only terrible towards his enemies. Mongolia as an empire under Genghis was oddly stable and flourished, because Genghis was a good statesman as well.

It's interesting that Ivan IV negotiated Elizabeth I the Queen of England about their possible marriage. By the way, Queen Elizabeth I is loved by people and they make movies about her, but she killed much more people than Ivan IV. In the period she was on the throne, 60 thousand people were executed by authorities just for being homeless. So it's strange that only Ivan IV is called "the terrible".

@krashanb5767

2 жыл бұрын

I guess nobody missed the homeless.

@RictusHolloweye

2 жыл бұрын

@@krashanb5767 - Yep, rulers can kill and oppress the poor and powerless as much as they want and few will notice, fewer will care.

@OmegaIL

2 жыл бұрын

That's unbiased history for ya.

@Leo-fy3wg

2 жыл бұрын

She only executed 2432- which sounds bad but she reigned for about 44 years

@stevenredpath9332

2 жыл бұрын

First time I heard she killed homeless people. Guess the message was: don’t leave home. Or else.

Something worth to mention: After the Basil's cathedral was finished Ivan asked the chief constructer, if it was possible for him to build anything that looks better than this. And the architect said that with more time and more ressources he probably could. Because of that Ivan took his eyelight from him (either with a glowing sword or by hammering to glowing nails into his head) to ensure that their wont be a more beautiful citadel build. After that he paid the architect his loan

@mrvk39

Жыл бұрын

now, they think it's not a true story but more likely borrowed from the time of Mongols who used to blind some skilled laborers to deny others their services.

@cow_tools_

Жыл бұрын

Is that true, or is it a legend?

@RasheedKhan-he6xx

10 ай бұрын

There's also a legend about the Taj Mahal, Emperor Shahjahan summoned the top architects and met with each individually. To each he said, "I know that you are the best. Who do you consider second best?" and then gave the job to the one who had been named as second best most often. This is of course just a myth. Shahjahan designed the Taj Mahal himself with help on the technical side.

@KA-zo2he

2 ай бұрын

​@@cow_tools_ it is usually considered a legend. Just like killing his son. I got some additional information from Soviet films (as i remember) that all of his family had too much plumbum and mercury in their bodies, especially his first son. It is implied that his second son Fyodor, was born weak because of this

Famous last words: “What are you going to do? Beat me to death with a sceptre?”

Even before the NKVD, the secret police exited in tsarist Russia.

@sodinc

4 жыл бұрын

@Arkady nope, okhrana just means security. Okhranka was a late imperial personal guard of the emperor similar to the secret service in the US today. There were two main secret polices - "zhandarmeriya" and "3`rd otdelenie".

@joehart6030

4 жыл бұрын

Too bad they didn't stay gone!

@sgsggsgsshshs8900

4 жыл бұрын

'exited' wow.

@LangChainAI

4 жыл бұрын

Even bofore NKVD the secret poice existed in any big state.

@ivlivscaesar5898

4 жыл бұрын

hey wait a second

1. "Grozny" is translated as "Menacing" or "Formidable" 2. Oprichnina was not the territory shown on the map 3. Oprichnina was good enough to win the most important battle of Ivan IV reign. The Battle of Molodi against Crimea and Ottomans

@trololoev

11 ай бұрын

Fow western standarts it count good if they read article at wikipedia, did you really think they will check any facts? P.s. Also Ivan didn't kill his son. "Also the fact that he killed his son was just a rumor. His son was actually poisoned. He was sick for some time before his death(like a month or so), and when his remains were observed in a laboratory in 1963 there were found very high levels of quicksilver, 32 times the normal amount."

@user-hp8yh4xu6n

3 ай бұрын

Only Crimean Tatars. Several years before they ALONE burb moscow,soo,if turjs join them-you will be lost

"what are you going to do? beat me to death with a scepter?" -quote from man beaten to death with a scepter

Interesting that Ivan temporarily 'abdicated' and gave power to a close friend, and then resumed power when it suited him. Sound familiar?

@ChituOkoli

Жыл бұрын

It's the Russian power play.

@Vinemaple

Жыл бұрын

Good point, this is indeed something that's been done by multiple people in multiple countries.

One thing that wasn’t mentioned: when St. Basil’s Cathedral was finished, Ivan was so taken by its beauty that he ordered the architect who made it blinded so that they couldn’t make anything that topped it.

@trololoev

11 ай бұрын

it is same fake as killing his son. He was very religion and didn't kill without reason.

@elgoog7830

8 ай бұрын

If true, what a fnckin lunatic!

Your videos are an absolute blast! Thank you for this great work! The themes are often really originial an fresh, and I cannot manage not to laugh when any of the little characters run in the field of flowers, even after watching dozens of them. Congrats!

The scenes where they hold up a sign and get really close are honestly the best

Didn't even mention the brilliant Soviet sci-fi comedy "Ivan Vasil'evich changes his job". I'm quite disappointed.

@sviatoslavs.1305

4 жыл бұрын

Maybe because this film is mostly known in post-Soviet countries, not a worldwide one.

@alwinpriven2400

4 жыл бұрын

@@sviatoslavs.1305 so we must change that!

@anthonyc4138

4 жыл бұрын

@@alwinpriven2400 lol

@ccooll2008

4 жыл бұрын

Perfectly Fine Ivan looking at a painting of him murdering his son [...]

@user-kz7gh6dw3q

4 жыл бұрын

Красота то какая, ляпота!

The winter war The Iberian Union Louis XIV's Reign Like if you want to see one of these episodes.

@freekmulder3662

4 жыл бұрын

Iberian Union would be really interesting. Winter War has been done to death

@nunomartins2209

4 жыл бұрын

@@freekmulder3662 Iberian Union never existed Portugal was never a united state with spain or castike

@multienergico9299

4 жыл бұрын

@@nunomartins2209 Philip II was king of Spain and Portugal starting a union that lasted for 60 year. It is true that they remained as separate states with different governments but under the same Monarchy.

@kamanashiskar9203

3 жыл бұрын

@@nunomartins2209 It existed between 1588 and 1640.

Love these videos and "the way" they are made. Thanks Mate.

2:11 "Our men are running from the Battlefield, such a shameful display

You should have talked about the fire of Moscow of 1571 and the conflict with the ottomans and the taters

@fulcrum2951

4 жыл бұрын

Tater tots?

@davesy6969

3 жыл бұрын

Where i come from taters means potatoes.

@Chris-hl4on

2 жыл бұрын

@@davesy6969 he needs something to dip in the tatar sauce

I really enjoy the material on this History Matters channel. Keep up the good work. ☺ ☺

1:00 I can’t unsee Trumps face after that red split

I remember reading that he possibly suffered from lead poisoning and had severe chronic pain that further pushed him into cruelty

@trololoev

11 ай бұрын

he with his "cruelty" kill dozen or even hundreds times less own people that any european leader of that time.

In age of empires 3 he isnt even close to terrible Cause hes fantastic

@arxontas2593

4 жыл бұрын

@@AlOlexy I always take ivan bc hes good at spamming soldiers

@apexlex1255

4 жыл бұрын

laughs in great bombard

@ShahTalks

4 жыл бұрын

The Ottoman great bombards are Op

@musAKulture

4 жыл бұрын

i love fighting ivan...boom-a dozen strelets flying. so satisfying.

@apexlex1255

4 жыл бұрын

@@ShahTalks they are very good

Been binging through alot of your videos lately, "What are you going to do, beat me to death with a sceptre?" Has been my favorite moment so far

“What are you going to do, beat me to death with a sceptre?” *Famous last words*

Even in English, "terrible" retains some of its older, broader senses that may include frightening but also magnificent. Consider the classic line from the Song of Solomon in the King James translation [and possibly also later English versions], in which the lover describes his beloved by many superlatives and concludes with, "terrible as an army with banners." Who has seen LOTR or GoT without understanding the combination of magnificence and intimidation that goes with that phrase? And this was a traditional part of the meaning of "terrible" or any of the terror-rooted words. As horror is fear plus revulsion and disgust, so terror is fear plus awe and respect. Among other things, the reason why horror, horrible, horrifying, horrific are all bad, where terror, terrible, terrifying are all slightly less bad and terrific ended up with a wholly positive sense, travelling the other direction. Basically, Ivan is being described as a magnificent bastard. No doubt he is an archetype of both fear and awe in the Russian psyche. How not? His reputation is practically that of Russia.

@eluilus4017

Жыл бұрын

Not bastard That is who wants to do evil He didn't

@Victor-iq5rd

Жыл бұрын

Song of Solomon 6:4 AKJB Thou art beautiful, O my love, as Tirzah, comely as Jerusalem, terrible as an army with banners.

"The Great" or "The Terrible"? I wonder, which of these will James Bissonnette be remembered by?

Well, he was pretty terrible but this could be said about many rulers.

I love your channel keep up the great stuff!!!!!

Thank you as always.

Well, part when Ivan kills his own son is a lie that have no reliable proofs other than rumors.

@gandalfstormcloud7514

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah he probably died falling up a flight of stairs.

@georgeniceguy3934

4 жыл бұрын

@@gandalfstormcloud7514 I'm gonna quote my previous comment. "Also the fact that he killed his son was just a rumor. His son was actually poisoned. He was sick for some time before his death(like a month or so), and when his remains were observed in a laboratory in 1963 there were found very high levels of quicksilver, 32 times the normal amount."

@gandalfstormcloud7514

4 жыл бұрын

@@georgeniceguy3934 thank you! Did not know that!

@nwoudochiobinna3673

3 жыл бұрын

Actually that's a lie.... There were apparently two nobles who witnessed this and described the incident. It was only said to be a rumor when people began decoding how terrible he was....since a lot of things said about him were disputed, they felt the word's of the nobles were not enough evidence... Also because his son didn't die after Ivan beat him, but later in his chambers

@steelbear2063

3 жыл бұрын

@@nwoudochiobinna3673 Because nobles never lie

0:20 Right-top of the screen: Hi there!

"What are you gonna do, beat me to death with a scepter?" -Someone who was beaten to death with a scepter

“What are you going to do? Hit me with a scepter?” Turns out... yes. Haha 😂 love this.

An interesting parallel with Henry VIII: Ivan IV has had 7 wives.

@user-hg2oq3nb5k

4 жыл бұрын

Sorry,what?

@igorsmihailovs52

4 жыл бұрын

@@user-hg2oq3nb5k, Ivan IV had 3 wives officially recognized (i.e., the marriages were blessed by the Church) and the rest were unofficial "wives", but they were not just concubines, and were seen as wives by contemporary people, though somewhat "limited" in their status. I mean, it would be not that safe to do otherwise, at least for a noble... But the Tsar was excommunicated for the rest of his life since the fourth "marriage", I even read he was even prohibited from visiting a service in the church.

@igorsmihailovs52

4 жыл бұрын

Henry VIII had his own issues with wives, and English Reformation started on the occasion of him willing to devorce. He had a total of 6 wives...

@igorsmihailovs52

4 жыл бұрын

Also, remember that Dimitry, the youngest son of Ivan IV, was officially considered a heir to the throne because Theodore had no issue. And Dimitry was the son of Ivan's last, seventh wife, Maria Nagaya.

@user-zs1hc4xf7j

2 жыл бұрын

But Henry killed 10 times more people

Everyone: let's be great! Ivan has left the server

@jaxsonh.266

4 жыл бұрын

*Ivan has abdicated from the server

2:49 'mistreating his son's wife' = he beat his _pregnant_ daughter-in-law for wearing clothing he thought too tight, a beating which caused her to miscarry. For context, this was actually Ivan Ivanovich (son of Ivan IV)'s third wife; Tsar Ivan had forced the divorce of the preceding two wives (and banished them to convent) because they did not get pregnant (although for the first he only waited about a year before deciding this was taking too long). Suffice it to say, by this point Ivan Ivanovich was getting tired of the tsar's 'terrible' antics.

@YoussefAhmed-jd5zu

2 жыл бұрын

Source?

@kourii

2 жыл бұрын

@@YoussefAhmed-jd5zu you have Google bro

@eluilus4017

Жыл бұрын

@@kourii not that there are anybody at all who want to lie about him ..

@YoussefAhmed-jd5zu

Жыл бұрын

@@kourii good point

Great presentation Sir!!!🙏👍😷

Grozny is a town in C̶h̶e̶c̶h̶n̶y̶a̶ *Ahem...* Russia.

@seneca983

4 жыл бұрын

It shouldn't be controversial to say Chechnya. I mean, it's still Chechnya (or the Chechen Republic) even if it's part of the Russian Federation and not an independent country.

@fulcrum2951

4 жыл бұрын

Its officially called the Chechen Republic

@sisyphusvasilias3943

4 жыл бұрын

Why not both, Chechnya is a Republic

@kostam.1113

4 жыл бұрын

Chechnya is a republic inside Russia Same way Texas is a state inside US Or Scotland is constituent part of the UK.

@sisyphusvasilias3943

4 жыл бұрын

@@kostam.1113 Russian Republics have more autonomy that either of those. Texas would be similar to a Russian Oblast for example. Chechnya is almost entirely autonomous except for matters of foreign policy.

Last time I was this early Ten Minute history was promising us an hour long video on ww2 due to be released on Spetember 1st 2019

@leokennedy7624

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, he LIED!! 🤥

Ivan: Bro, could you help me? Simeon: Sure, anything for you. Ivan: Become the regent when I abdicate and take all the church land so I'm not the one doing it until I unabdicate myself. Simeon: Sure thing bro.

"What are you going to do? Beat me to death with a sceptre?" huh .. I never thought of that, thanks son Wait what *smack* ... *smack* x 100

@idiocrat3744

3 жыл бұрын

Well, actually it was like "COME HERE YOU DEVIL! I WILL KILL YOU!!!!" *THROWS A SON ON THE FLOOR AND STABS HIS HEAD*

You might've as well explained that when that term appeared in English historiography it meant "Terrifying" which is a closer translation of "Grozny"

@user-qn3xu5ee3t

3 жыл бұрын

More like formidable, fearsome

@DieFlabbergast

2 жыл бұрын

It still does: e.g. "a terrible storm" etc.

Gronzy was also translate to awesome i the sense of awe-inspiring or intimidatingly powerful.

@caad5258

4 жыл бұрын

Ivan the Terrific

@pplayer666

3 жыл бұрын

For-mid-able, zzzz

Great video! We must always remember to be critical of our sources. Who is writing the history can be just as if not more important than the history that they write.

I love this channel!

Wow... this one's 3 years old, and it's as good as the new ones! I read up on Ivan Grozny once, and to me the pattern was pretty clear. It was all about becoming an absolute monarch. You see, feudal kingdoms weren't like ancient kingdoms, or the kingdoms of the Renaissance and later. In the kingdoms of feudal Europe, the king ruled at the sufferance of the other nobles. Kind of like how Westeros worked before the Targaryens went mad. The nobles agreed (for whatever reason) to elevate one of their number as "first among equals," but the earls and dukes and margraves all had plenty of land, troops, and resources, and could, at some cost to themselves, remove a king they had elevated. The power struggle between king and feudal nobles, as the king seeks to stay in power, and the nobles seek to retain their own liberty in the face of the king's power, drove much of European politics in that era. Ivan's actions often seemed to stem from an attempt to force the nobles and others to confirm his right to absolute power, instead of being constrained by the traditions of feudalism. Sometimes it seems like he felt entitled to such power... he most likely would have been aware of the powers that ancient Greek, Hebrew, and Mesopotamian kings had in earlier times, so it's not like he conceived the idea out of pure arrogance.

@trololoev

11 ай бұрын

nobles destroy country, they was corrupt this is why he fight with them.

I wonder how long I've been asking for the renewal of a well-known series... Seems like forever

Love these.

Ivan the terrible when Ivan the Great walks in:

Abdicating for more power has the same energy as losing a civil war in CK2 so you can play as your genius younger brother.

There was only one course or action to win them over and calm things down: *Murder!* 1:57 Very on brand

Man, that flower meadow animation is subconsciously entering my day-to-day thinking.

We need a compilation of ALL video fragments featuring historical figures jumping through a field of flowers.

@benjaminjohannessanchez3310

3 жыл бұрын

Apparently I commented this a year ago... What is time...

I'd say "грозный" is more like "fearsome"

@Cjnw

3 жыл бұрын

I think that it was written as *Гроѕнꙏıй* back then

@r8rgtrs

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, but “terrible” also means that. Like he’s so fearsome he instills terror in you

That simeon geezer at 2:24 looks like Jock from young offenders ngl

I just love it when he slides to the guy who accepted his demands and Ivan got that "I got you now" look.

OUTSTANDING ! DAT is sum KooL history.

1:45 Reminds me of that law from "Gate So the SDF Fought there"

Ivan the Terrible: Hates Norhtern Russa Joseph Stalin: Hates Southern Russia

@NarquelieNarmo

4 жыл бұрын

Really ? Yet Stalin was georgian

@PasserMontanus

4 жыл бұрын

Ukraine is not Russia.

@user-zb8jt1mn6c

4 жыл бұрын

@@PasserMontanus Ukraine is Russia.

@viktorpetukhov727

4 жыл бұрын

@@PasserMontanus Ukraine is half-Russia half-Poland

@PasserMontanus

4 жыл бұрын

ok boomer

"There was only one cause of action to win things over and calm them down. Murder." I wish my history teachers had taught their subject like this. I'm glad I had swallowed my coffee before I heard this part of your video.

"But I wasn't terrible. I was quite an effective ruler." -Ivan the Terrible, Night at the Museum 3

@leesimmons5453

Ай бұрын

It's funny they put that in a kid's movie.

Grozny means something like "awe inspiring" in the biblical sense. So it means something like fear combined with reverence and wonder. Like when you see a thunderstorm you're filled with awe at its power.

Grozny (or how we know him in PL, Groźny) is more "Dangerous//Threatening" than "Terrible"

@LangChainAI

4 жыл бұрын

Ivan the Redpilled

@DieFlabbergast

2 жыл бұрын

That is what "terrible" still means. Other uses are slang, or at best colloquial. We still speak of "a terrible storm" or "a terrible tragedy." We will not dumb down the English language for the benefit of uneducated young people on the Internet.

@MrBrock314

2 жыл бұрын

Terrible has multiple meanings including the one you mentioned as an alternative.

@RustedCroaker

Жыл бұрын

@@MrBrock314 And that's a problem. Terrible - more like a anti-russian propaganda then a genuine accurate translation of his real nickname.

That's some good content

When I was learning about Ivan, the translation I heard for "Grozny" was "Thunderclap," which was generally more equated to "awesome" in the sense of being awe-inspiring and powerful. If anyone remembers that joke from Night at the Museum 2 when Ivan calls himself "Ivan the Awesome," it's a play on that meaning.

I actually think too many of the historical figures that we think of as evil or tyrannical are just seen so because of how they treated the lower nobility and aristocracy, and not based on how they actually treated the people, the bulk of the population. Other examples are Julius Caesar, Christian II, king John of England.

@Flight_of_Icarus

4 жыл бұрын

I mean Ivan here sacked Novgorod for little reason than his own paranoia. It's usually more complicated than that, because peasants and lower born people of the time identified with their noble family that they served, or their monarch, rather than for any sort of national identity. The borders of countries were based on land the monarch or the nobles owned, rather than on divisions between the people like today. If the noble called a monarch an epithet, it stands to reason his peasants would follow suit.

@vallraffs

4 жыл бұрын

@@Flight_of_Icarus imo we shouldn't over-romanticize social relations under feudalism between serfs and the lords whose land they worked. Ascribing a kind of nationalism to them, and pretending that they were all too happy to serve and obey the duke who owned their fief, might tell one side of the story. But it might be far more accurate to see them as living in terror under the whim of a person or dynasty who could have subjected them to any kind of cruelty as reprisal for being shown any less than absolute obedience. Like we know that the idea of Prima Nocta is an ahistorical myth. But I think it kinda paints a good picture of how unjust and barbaric the relationship between the underclasses and the nobility was.

@alexanderdesturion4346

4 жыл бұрын

Although I personally regret that it happened, Ivan had plenty of reason to stop Novgorod from being a major economic center and keeping its institutions. It was a danger to centralized Russia. There were multiple attacks on Novgorod actually, ending in the "Sack of Novgorod". Each were provoked by disloyal attitudes there. Also, regarding his relationship with smallfolk - almost every folk legend we know of Ivan paints him in an extremely positive light. Peasants sincerely believed he was the " peoples-tsar", suppressing boyars while promoting peasants as his new elite in fork of oprichniki.

@Alexanderrr3r

3 жыл бұрын

@@alexanderdesturion4346 Well, name me some of those legends, please. Unless you made them up, ofc.

Grozny doesn't mean terrible. It means de facto more of mighty, awe-inspiring. Also mentioning Livonian war and not succesful conquest of 3 different khanates is rich move.

@danghostman2814

3 жыл бұрын

Terrible can also mean those things; it mostly gets used as a replacement for "very bad", but there's prayers to "the great and terrible Lord, our God", or the phrase "the terrible might of nature". Neither of which intend to cast a negative connotation, only an impressive one.

@user-xw5xo3bv1n

3 жыл бұрын

@@danghostman2814 that's the thing. Grozny in russian does not have a negative connotation (as in bad quality) at all. That word in expression like groznoie oruzhie in fact points on such high quality (and destructive potential in case of, say, bombs) that it is terrifying. Look, main city of Chechnya is called Grozny because it was, intially, russian guard fort.

I don't know about you but the Oprichniki look and sound so badass

I really like the animation of the square cartoons running freely in a flower garden.

3:09 actually Suleiman the Magnificent Sultan in the Ottoman Empire between 1520-1566 Also killed hes son. Exept i dont think ivan ment to kille his but Suleiman planed it and lured his son in to a trap and watshed from behind a curtain and he is the Magnificent whell Ivan is the terrible.

@idiocrat3744

3 жыл бұрын

He did it out of rage

@user-no4di9ro7c

3 жыл бұрын

Peter the Great also killed his son Alexey

@idiocrat3744

3 жыл бұрын

@@user-no4di9ro7c Он арестовал, а Алексей умер от истощения в темнице

@eluilus4017

Жыл бұрын

And of course Stalin didn't exchange his son against German general..

I'm very dissapointed you didn't mention the Polish translation of the name Grozny was "dangerous". Which is both accurate to a tee and positively metal.

@idiocrat3744

3 жыл бұрын

He was named that by russian peasants. Shut up polish nationalist

@alexstorm2749

3 жыл бұрын

What does Polish have to do with the name of the Russian tsar? Grozny in Russian means “formidable”, “feared” and “storm-like”.

@kourii

2 жыл бұрын

Why would he mention the Polish?

The little box people are so cute Im so amused by their little placard things

Reminds me of a chapter in history on Burgundy where the ruler was called Karel de Stoute, directly translated from modern Dutch this means Charles the Naughty while at the time it meant Charles the Brave.

I always thought Ivan was called "the Terrible" because he was a very cruel monarch, not because he was awful at administrating.

@iapetusmccool

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, it puzzles me a bit when I see people say "'terrible' is a mistranslation, it should be something like "fearsome/frightening/horrifying/awesome/dangerous". Those are literally all meanings of the word "terrible".

@howtoappearincompletely9739

Жыл бұрын

@@iapetusmccool "Terrible" as in "inspiring terror".

@trololoev

11 ай бұрын

but he wasn't cruel, he killed for all his life less own people that modern USA president write death sentence. In average europe in year killed more people that he killed in 40 year

I think the “beating his son to death” was actually a myth spread after Ivan’s death.

@corey2232

3 жыл бұрын

It's actually the opposite. The myth was that Ivan's son might have been poisoned, which didn't come about until centuries after he died.

@eluilus4017

Жыл бұрын

I bet Ivan was poisoned

@trololoev

11 ай бұрын

@@corey2232 "Also the fact that he killed his son was just a rumor. His son was actually poisoned. He was sick for some time before his death(like a month or so), and when his remains were observed in a laboratory in 1963 there were found very high levels of quicksilver, 32 times the normal amount."

I did a spot of acting around school-leaving age, and there was an old-ish man who was fine with getting make-up, but wouldn't let anyone touch his hair. It was clearly a run and so I always (to myself) called him Ivan the Terrible Wig.

1:38 "No!" "You are mean and all you do is embezzle and treason!"

Terrible isn't really a correct translation, Грозный means Intimidating

@joelthomastr

4 жыл бұрын

It wouldn't be a good translation now, but it was translated at the time when "terrible" simply meant "inspires terror". Like how "awful" used to mean "inspires awe" and "faithful" used to mean "has faith"

@alexmikhylov

4 жыл бұрын

@@joelthomastr that's fair

@1:00 The tsardom was split into two halves? Versus three or four halves? Just having fun with you, mate. Love your content!

@TheIslandDivision

3 жыл бұрын

I gives this comment five thumbs up. 👍👍.... ...

My history teacher told me that Ghengis Khan or Atilla the Hun (I forget which) “wherever he walked the grass never grew”. I had this mental image of these footprints all over the Steppes.

Ivan: sooooo, you guys think you can rule without me? *Abdicates* Russian nobles: *start panicking* Ivan: That's what I thought.