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Ivan IV Vasil'evich - (reign, 1533 - 1584) view 1, he captured Kazan and Astrakhan, but lost Livonian War. Ivan was not a Romanov but he is included as the powerful tsar who, following in his grandfather's footsteps, set the stage for the Romanov era. What a wonderful psychological study is this portrait. |
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