Piotr Nater
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 8 Aug
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In a fit of frenzy he slew his eldest son, who resembled him in many ways.
In short, he suffered from that tyrannical mania that affected so many Roman emperors.
The Roman people rid themselves of such monsters by assassination.
The Russians, more servile, submitted and suffered, but they called him Ivan the Terrible.
Meanwhile, however, the Tsar was prosecuting his wars.
But fortune had forsaken him.
Neither against the Poles nor against the Krim Tatars was he successful.
The former, and also the Swedes, drove him out of the Baltic provinces.
The latter came and burned down Moscow, the Kremlin alone escaping.
On the other hand, some Russian adventurers, unsupported by their government, made the beginning of a very important conquest.
Two brothers named Stroganov, large dealers in salt and peltries, determined to seek the market beyond the Ural Mountains, which at that time bounded the geographical knowledge of the Russian people.
They entrusted the leadership of the expedition to a cosak, Yermak, who collected a number of competitions.
their companions and crossed the mountains in fifteen seventy nine.
They took an active part in the quarrels of the Transuralian princes and possessed themselves of the land of Khan Kushtum and his capital Sibir, situated on the Irtish.
From this city the whole territory beyond the mountains was called Siberia.
Yermak went back to Russia, and the two Stroganovs hastened to convey their unexpected conquest to Ivan and to extend their discoveries farther and farther eastward.
Such were the insignificant beginnings of the vast Asiatic Empire of Russia.
Worn out by excesses of all kinds, Ivan IV died in fifteen eighty five, in the fifty fifth year of his age,
His son and successor, Fyodor, was weak in body and mind.
His father had for that reason appointed a council of regency consisting of five boyars, foremost among whom were Nikita Romanovich, brother of the young Tsar's mother, and Boris Godunov, brother of Fyodor's wife, who
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