
This video contains paintings and art from almost four hundred years of Imperial autocratic history: *Ivan IV (1533-84), also known as Ivan the Terrible, was the first to use "Tsar of all Russia" as his title. He was an impulsive man and prone to incandescent rages. It was in a fit of anger that he struck his favorite son and heir on the head with his staff and crushed his skull, killing him. *Feodor I (1584-98), Ivan IV's weaker son, followed Ivan and occupied the throne for 14 years. He was known as "Feodor the Bell Ringer" because he liked to visit monasteries and ring their bells. His death without issue led to Russia's "Time of Troubles." *Boris Godunov (1598-1605) was Feodor's brother-in-law, best known as the musical subject of "Boris Godunov," an opera by Modest Mussorgsky. *Feodor II (1605), son of Boris Godunov, was proclaimed tsar at the age of 16, and immediately surrounded by treachery. He was strangled to death in his apartment two months later. *False Dmitriy I (1605-06), one of three people who claimed to be sons of Ivan IV during the Time of Troubles, was assassinated a year later. *Vasily IV (1606-10), a leading Boyar, assumed the throne, but was deposed four years later. --There was unrest and no recognized claimant for the throne for three years, though Wladislaw IV of Poland pressed his claim to the throne. He tried but failed to capture Moscow and finally withdrew. *Michael (1613-1645), first of the Romanovs, was elected tsar by a national assembly <b>...</b>
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