Ivan The Terrible: The Hunt For The Psychopathic Tzar's Lost Library | Myth Hunters | Chronicle

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 named Stelletskii 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
    @007EnglishAcademy2 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

    2 ай бұрын

    Lol you wasted your time, get fooked

  • @Mermare

    @Mermare

    2 ай бұрын

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

  • @orionxtc1119

    @orionxtc1119

    Ай бұрын

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

  • @Mermare

    @Mermare

    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

    Ай бұрын

    Then you should stop watching Chronicle

  • @williamharris8367
    @williamharris83672 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

    2 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

    2 ай бұрын

    A book that ancient would now be written on paper

  • @Hollandsemum2

    @Hollandsemum2

    2 ай бұрын

    Vellum and parchment

  • @iangoddi

    @iangoddi

    2 ай бұрын

    Maybe it exists elsewhere.

  • @Garbeaux.
    @Garbeaux.2 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.

  • @user-fw4kk1ym9y
    @user-fw4kk1ym9y2 ай бұрын

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

  • @jessiejames7492

    @jessiejames7492

    Ай бұрын

    What does it mean’redoubtable?’

  • @user-fw4kk1ym9y

    @user-fw4kk1ym9y

    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.

  • @bobsbigboy_
    @bobsbigboy_2 ай бұрын

    Yes! New Ivan IV video dropped!!!

  • @quentincollins1825
    @quentincollins18252 ай бұрын

    I wish Vincent Price could have played Ivan.

  • @MilosBrajkovic-rc3ik

    @MilosBrajkovic-rc3ik

    2 ай бұрын

    Match made in Hell!

  • @rednekilla9254

    @rednekilla9254

    Ай бұрын

    Vincent Price should have been the narrator...

  • @Rat-Salad
    @Rat-SaladАй бұрын

    I enjoyed the bits in between the adverts…

  • @PersonOfTheInternet280
    @PersonOfTheInternet2802 ай бұрын

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

  • @SuperZippyzippy
    @SuperZippyzippyАй бұрын

    The cruelty from humans never ceases to amaze me

  • @lds22466
    @lds224662 ай бұрын

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

  • @williamharris8367

    @williamharris8367

    2 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

    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
    @terryhoath1983Ай 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

  • @shaggyrumplenutz1610
    @shaggyrumplenutz16102 ай бұрын

    Very cool.

  • @maryduhon9769
    @maryduhon9769Ай бұрын

    Thats a super cool story

  • @kurtkrause8640
    @kurtkrause8640Ай бұрын

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

  • @d.c.8828
    @d.c.8828Ай бұрын

    How exciting! ⛏️

  • @meeeka
    @meeeka2 ай бұрын

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

  • @eriglaser
    @eriglaser2 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.

  • @Johnconno
    @JohnconnoАй бұрын

    Things were simpler in those days.

  • @branimalcrossingneweed
    @branimalcrossingneweed2 ай бұрын

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

  • @user-yu8qx6hd5m
    @user-yu8qx6hd5m2 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.

  • @Flamlily

    @Flamlily

    2 ай бұрын

    Who says popular historians are honest ? There even bigger liars because rich people pay them to lie

  • @curtisjohnson5784

    @curtisjohnson5784

    2 ай бұрын

    Do you have recommended books that should be read?

  • @jeffarmfield2346

    @jeffarmfield2346

    Ай бұрын

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

  • @RugMann

    @RugMann

    Ай бұрын

    Please recommend some history books

  • @cruisepaige

    @cruisepaige

    Ай бұрын

    Old types?

  • @tinytimtiny
    @tinytimtiny19 күн бұрын

    Hello

  • @corricatt
    @corricatt2 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

    2 ай бұрын

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

  • @ToolsForLife1111

    @ToolsForLife1111

    2 ай бұрын

    I love to watch as I go to sleep😊

  • @BigpapamoneymanMVPtypebeat

    @BigpapamoneymanMVPtypebeat

    2 ай бұрын

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

  • @user-xr2lv4ll6j

    @user-xr2lv4ll6j

    2 ай бұрын

    ​@@BigpapamoneymanMVPtypebeat Lol. Nice one.

  • @billysunday7507

    @billysunday7507

    2 ай бұрын

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

  • @Idontknowanymoreeee
    @Idontknowanymoreeee2 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

    16 күн 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.

  • @tazkrebbeks3391
    @tazkrebbeks3391Ай бұрын

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

  • @jessiejames7492
    @jessiejames7492Ай бұрын

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

  • @eyetrollin710
    @eyetrollin710Ай 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...

  • @Radek-Hetman
    @Radek-HetmanАй бұрын

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

  • @joes6108
    @joes610824 күн 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.

  • @aeronwolfe7072
    @aeronwolfe70722 ай бұрын

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

  • @Soppsleven
    @Soppsleven19 күн бұрын

    comment

  • @nerdvana101
    @nerdvana1012 ай бұрын

    Don't believe the hype

  • @danielasuncion9991

    @danielasuncion9991

    2 ай бұрын

    What hype? 🤔

  • @nerdvana101

    @nerdvana101

    2 ай бұрын

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

  • @blaggercoyote
    @blaggercoyoteАй бұрын

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

  • @rosemcguinn5301
    @rosemcguinn53012 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

    Ай бұрын

    Welcome to Earth. Reality is not always pleasant.

  • @rosemcguinn5301

    @rosemcguinn5301

    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.

  • @MikeHunt-fo3ow
    @MikeHunt-fo3owАй бұрын

    his friends called him ivan the panties dropper

  • @noapologies619
    @noapologies619Ай бұрын

    Russia's leaders havent changed 🤣

  • @phillipnoetzel7637
    @phillipnoetzel7637Ай бұрын

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

  • @scottdiamond74
    @scottdiamond74Ай бұрын

    Putin has it

  • @VintageYakyu
    @VintageYakyu2 ай бұрын

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

  • @degzi
    @degzi2 ай бұрын

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

  • @tselengbotlhole750
    @tselengbotlhole7502 ай бұрын

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

  • @aleksandarstavric2226
    @aleksandarstavric222610 күн бұрын

    Not a single russian academic in this rubbish documentary

  • @jimvonkropsberg399
    @jimvonkropsberg399Ай бұрын

    He reminds me a lot of bloody vlad rasPOOtin 😢🎉

  • @afnanuddinahmed7501
    @afnanuddinahmed750115 күн бұрын

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

  • @Humberto-Haas
    @Humberto-HaasАй бұрын

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

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