Ivan The Terrible's Secret Bunker Under Moscow | Myth Hunters

Ivan the Terrible, the first Tsar of Russia, was known for his cruelty and sadism, but legend suggests he possessed a secret library hidden beneath the Kremlin, containing priceless ancient literature.
In the 20th century, an archaeologist embarked on a quest to prove the existence of Ivan's library, facing dangers from both Stalin's secret police and the treacherous tunnels beneath Moscow. Ivan's paranoia led him to kill anyone who knew of the library's location, and by the 20th century, most believed it to be merely a legend until Stetsy's determined pursuit.
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  • @007EnglishAcademy
    @007EnglishAcademy3 ай бұрын

    A typical Chronicle documentary where the end is a variation of ''we will keep looking'' and/or ''we will probably never know''.

  • @oatdilemma6395

    @oatdilemma6395

    3 ай бұрын

    Lol you wasted your time, get fooked

  • @Mermare

    @Mermare

    3 ай бұрын

    At least they're not making stuff up like some of the sensational History Channel shows.

  • @orionxtc1119

    @orionxtc1119

    2 ай бұрын

    @@Mermare The Histoey Channel used to be very good back in the day...now they are trash

  • @Mermare

    @Mermare

    2 ай бұрын

    @orionxtc1119 Absolutely. I used to watch History and Biography channels all the time. So sad. Anything History Hit is vaguely accurate, but not dependable.

  • @charlesgreenough9291

    @charlesgreenough9291

    2 ай бұрын

    Then you should stop watching Chronicle

  • @bobsbigboy_
    @bobsbigboy_3 ай бұрын

    Yes! New Ivan IV video dropped!!!

  • @williamharris8367
    @williamharris83673 ай бұрын

    Realistically, _anything_ stored underground in damp conditions will long have disintegrated in the intervening centuries, most especially paper and leather bindings. Even if there was once a hidden library, it has not existed for centuries.

  • @branimalcrossingneweed

    @branimalcrossingneweed

    3 ай бұрын

    There would still be signs if it they just dug up a ancient Roman Wooden cellar in England n the conditions are damp as shit here there would be signs especially if they was bound in gold like it says

  • @Kephartable

    @Kephartable

    3 ай бұрын

    A book that ancient would now be written on paper

  • @iangoddi

    @iangoddi

    3 ай бұрын

    Maybe it exists elsewhere.

  • @SuperZippyzippy
    @SuperZippyzippy2 ай бұрын

    The cruelty from humans never ceases to amaze me

  • @Garbeaux.
    @Garbeaux.3 ай бұрын

    That library was gone along time ago. Prob not long after his reign in The Times of Troubles. Also, how many times has Moscow been burned basically to the ground? You’d have as much luck finding the Library of Alexandria as Ivan’s. Btw not sure why the Russian Imperial authorities wouldn’t let Stalinsky dig under the armory tower. Nicholas II was rarely in Moscow. St Petersburg had been the capital of Imperial Russia.

  • @quentincollins1825
    @quentincollins18253 ай бұрын

    I wish Vincent Price could have played Ivan.

  • @MilosBrajkovic-rc3ik

    @MilosBrajkovic-rc3ik

    3 ай бұрын

    Match made in Hell!

  • @rednekilla9254

    @rednekilla9254

    2 ай бұрын

    Vincent Price should have been the narrator...

  • @shaggyrumplenutz1610
    @shaggyrumplenutz16103 ай бұрын

    Very cool.

  • @maryduhon9769
    @maryduhon97692 ай бұрын

    Thats a super cool story

  • @PersonOfTheInternet280
    @PersonOfTheInternet2803 ай бұрын

    I'm in the middle of watching Eisensteins Ivan The Terrible. Nice upload.

  • @alexandercarder2281
    @alexandercarder228120 күн бұрын

    What a wonderful exciting documentary and of course when making history entertaining, one must take a certain amount of creative liberty. But the goal is it inspire people about a historical legend and this documentary has done just that (for me anyhow)

  • @d.c.8828
    @d.c.88283 ай бұрын

    How exciting! ⛏️

  • @user-fw4kk1ym9y
    @user-fw4kk1ym9y3 ай бұрын

    "Ivan The Redoubtable" is correct translation (not the Terrible, but redoubtable). "Terrible" is wrong translation. Feel the difference.

  • @jessiejames7492

    @jessiejames7492

    2 ай бұрын

    What does it mean’redoubtable?’

  • @user-fw4kk1ym9y

    @user-fw4kk1ym9y

    2 ай бұрын

    @@jessiejames7492 redoubtable ih-DOUT-uh-bul\ adjective. 1 : causing fear or alarm : formidable. 2 : illustrious, eminent; broadly : worthy of respect. Examples: The theater has hired a redoubtable director to direct its upcoming production.

  • @Rat-Salad
    @Rat-Salad2 ай бұрын

    I enjoyed the bits in between the adverts…

  • @kurtkrause8640
    @kurtkrause86403 ай бұрын

    Keep at it buddy You are the Zen Master of tooth piks greetings from South Africa

  • @lds22466
    @lds224663 ай бұрын

    9:44 “They weren’t vegetarian times”………what?!!? Credibility destroyedm😂😂😂😂😂

  • @williamharris8367

    @williamharris8367

    3 ай бұрын

    I'm guessing that was a translation issue that made more sense in the original Russian. I used to have a Francophone classmate who used the phrase "close the light" which was a literal translation from the French even if not the correct English.

  • @razor1uk610

    @razor1uk610

    2 ай бұрын

    I suppose vegetarian times could be reference to one of the many famines, plagues, or a brief period of cannibalis. Perhaps it was a polite but poor mistranslation of a colloquial joke about shit...

  • @terryhoath1983
    @terryhoath19832 ай бұрын

    Игнатий Яковлевич Стеллецкий (Ignatius Yakovlevich Stelletskii) in the 1910s and 1920s had a modern head torch and a modern powerful hand torch did he ? Ohhh ! and in places, bearing in mind the floodlights here and there, I don!t know why he bothered with the head and hand torch, the flood lights would have been better. Ivan, of course, had a glass sided lantern and was also aided, deep in tunnels, by electric back lighting. REMARKABLE !!! This is supposed to be serious, spare us the totally unrealistic and misleading drama

  • @Mactrizel
    @Mactrizel10 күн бұрын

    Myths and legends fables and tales

  • @meeeka
    @meeeka3 ай бұрын

    But there weren't there two Rurkid Ivans, Ivan III the Great and Ivan IV the Terrible?

  • @Johnconno
    @Johnconno2 ай бұрын

    Things were simpler in those days.

  • @eriglaser
    @eriglaser3 ай бұрын

    Anyone else feel like that archeologist was a Rick Riordan demigod? This has huge child of Athena trying to find some book his mom lost in the Byzantine Empire. Poor guy.

  • @branimalcrossingneweed
    @branimalcrossingneweed3 ай бұрын

    It’s clearly real the list was found so we just need to pick up where he left off😅

  • @corricatt
    @corricatt3 ай бұрын

    I don't know, maybe it's the time of day on a weekend... but I'm totally bored with this.. I'll try rewatching a weekday morning....

  • @bumblebeebob

    @bumblebeebob

    3 ай бұрын

    A weekday morning? He'll! Everything is more fun when you're supposed to be working! 😅

  • @ToolsForLife1111

    @ToolsForLife1111

    3 ай бұрын

    I love to watch as I go to sleep😊

  • @BigpapamoneymanMVPtypebeat

    @BigpapamoneymanMVPtypebeat

    3 ай бұрын

    Nice try Ivan, we’ll find those books wether you like it or not

  • @user-xr2lv4ll6j

    @user-xr2lv4ll6j

    3 ай бұрын

    ​@@BigpapamoneymanMVPtypebeat Lol. Nice one.

  • @billysunday7507

    @billysunday7507

    3 ай бұрын

    I watch as I poop. Right now it is like brown water. I will probably need a shower after this.

  • @tinytimtiny
    @tinytimtinyАй бұрын

    Hello

  • @Idontknowanymoreeee
    @Idontknowanymoreeee3 ай бұрын

    Wetterman 16:47 wasn’t actually Estonian, he was a Baltic German (so a German born in the Baltic states, in this case in Estonia, Tartu), those two are very different, Estonians at that time were nothing more than farmers and slaves :((

  • @user-ig6jz4mv9r

    @user-ig6jz4mv9r

    Ай бұрын

    From the German perspective at the time, the Finno-Ugric Estonians were mere serfs and slaves. It was only in the 19th century, when theories of national self-determination and one nation, one state, were propounded, that Estonians began to become independent.

  • @jessiejames7492
    @jessiejames74922 ай бұрын

    Wonder why Ivan turned out the way he did. I suppose seeing endless cruelty and wars in russia growing up. His successor , Putin

  • @sarbear8528
    @sarbear852823 күн бұрын

    For some reason, people, though history, decided to destroy libraries and books mutable time 😊

  • @user-yu8qx6hd5m
    @user-yu8qx6hd5m3 ай бұрын

    It is very painful and shameful that in such films a small fraction of the truth is mixed with outright lies! It’s even more pity for the viewers who believe in all this and spread lies further. You want to know the truth - read books by real historians, not two old types that no one has ever heard of.

  • @curtisjohnson5784

    @curtisjohnson5784

    3 ай бұрын

    Do you have recommended books that should be read?

  • @jeffarmfield2346

    @jeffarmfield2346

    2 ай бұрын

    ​@@curtisjohnson5784 I doubt it. Or it'll be something by a Graham Hancock type

  • @RugMann

    @RugMann

    2 ай бұрын

    Please recommend some history books

  • @cruisepaige

    @cruisepaige

    2 ай бұрын

    Old types?

  • @Vee_of_the_Weald

    @Vee_of_the_Weald

    2 ай бұрын

    @@cruisepaige It’s the French for “old geezers”

  • @Radek-Hetman
    @Radek-Hetman2 ай бұрын

    Probably Poles and Lithuanians eated that library because of hunger during occupation of Moscow in the year 1612

  • @eyetrollin710
    @eyetrollin7102 ай бұрын

    If the bars had rusted out then the books have rotted away.. and this is why the elites should not be given the keys exclusively to our past...

  • @joes6108
    @joes6108Ай бұрын

    Im pretty sure nobody cared about some nerd looking for old books. If they knew what he was doing they probably would have just let him find it for them then take it for themselves.

  • @Soppsleven
    @SoppslevenАй бұрын

    comment

  • @tazkrebbeks3391
    @tazkrebbeks33913 ай бұрын

    Sorry. I don't believe 1/2 of what they say.

  • @DJJ81

    @DJJ81

    29 күн бұрын

    lol, that’s still giving them far more credit than they deserve. But I’m on board for sensationalized bullshit on occasion

  • @aeronwolfe7072
    @aeronwolfe70723 ай бұрын

    geez... some of the dialog in this is, barely listenable... sounds like an essay written by a 7th grader

  • @blaggercoyote
    @blaggercoyote3 ай бұрын

    What a let down! Fascinating but ..........

  • @rosemcguinn5301
    @rosemcguinn53013 ай бұрын

    I didn't need the shock of suddenly being forced to see those ppl being shot the first time early on in this video - but the second time was like getting unexpectedly smacked in the head a second time. Such documentary footage is both unnecessary and highly off-putting. I will now think at least twice prior to viewing this channel's content - which is a real pity in that I've enjoyed some of your others in the past. I just do not need that kind of violence suddenly forced into my mind.

  • @d.c.8828

    @d.c.8828

    3 ай бұрын

    Welcome to Earth. Reality is not always pleasant.

  • @rosemcguinn5301

    @rosemcguinn5301

    3 ай бұрын

    @@d.c.8828 Naturally, it is not. But I don't need to be constantly reminded with severe moving images of real live murders. And they used the same footage more than once, with no warning whatsoever.

  • @phillipnoetzel7637
    @phillipnoetzel76372 ай бұрын

    The Quest for Joe Biden’s brain is even more compelling.

  • @VintageYakyu
    @VintageYakyu3 ай бұрын

    They never find anything and TOO MANY FUCKING ADS!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @MikeHunt-fo3ow
    @MikeHunt-fo3ow2 ай бұрын

    his friends called him ivan the panties dropper

  • @noapologies619
    @noapologies6192 ай бұрын

    Russia's leaders havent changed 🤣

  • @nerdvana101
    @nerdvana1013 ай бұрын

    Don't believe the hype

  • @danielasuncion9991

    @danielasuncion9991

    3 ай бұрын

    What hype? 🤔

  • @nerdvana101

    @nerdvana101

    3 ай бұрын

    @@danielasuncion9991 the hype you know public enemy made a song about it

  • @scottdiamond74
    @scottdiamond742 ай бұрын

    Putin has it

  • @degzi
    @degzi3 ай бұрын

    so somebody went looking for something and didn't find it. what a pointless documentary

  • @tselengbotlhole750
    @tselengbotlhole7503 ай бұрын

    How is he different from Vladimir Putin in relation to cruelty?

  • @jimvonkropsberg399
    @jimvonkropsberg3992 ай бұрын

    He reminds me a lot of bloody vlad rasPOOtin 😢🎉

  • @aleksandarstavric2226
    @aleksandarstavric2226Ай бұрын

    Not a single russian academic in this rubbish documentary

  • @afnanuddinahmed7501
    @afnanuddinahmed7501Ай бұрын

    You just wasted my time a little 🃏🃏🃏🃏🃏🃏🃏🃏🃏🃏🃏🃏🃏🃏🃏🃏

  • @Humberto-Haas
    @Humberto-Haas2 ай бұрын

    I'm in the middle of watching Eisensteins Ivan The Terrible. Nice upload.

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