The Ivan the Great Bell Tower (1505-1508) in the Kremlin, one of Russia's great national treasures, and guess what, it is not named for Ivan IV, as I long thought!  (Ivan III, the Great, was the grandfather of Ivan IV, the Terrible.)

• Read the textbook chapters 15, 16, 17, 18 and 19
• In the realm of "Can you believe it?", is this account of Ivan's life
• Check the remarks by Professor Blois and Professor Evans on the era of Ivan the Terrible
• Study the Questions to Consider and the Key Terms for the week

• Post (or respond) your thoughts/ideas about this week's reading and assignment in the Blackboard online discussion forum. Do not post your assignment there.

• Have a look at a genealogy of Russian Tsars (1462-1725)
• Read some comments about Ivan by a contemporary Englishman
• Read chapter 10, chapter 11 and chapter 12 from Mary Platt Parmele (1843-1911) A Short History of Russia (1907, 4th edition).  These are short chapters, and this is optional reading.

• For 50 points maximum extra credit, watch either Ivan the Terrible part. 1 or Ivan the Terrible part. 2 and write a one-page paper in which you analyze the historical accuracy of the film.
• For 50 points maximum extra credit, listen to (or watch) Modest Mussorgskii's opera Boris Godunov, based on Aleksandr Pushkin's text, and explain, in a one-page paper, the particular interpretation of Godunov's life put forward in the opera
  
• For 50 points maximum extra credit, read Benson Bobrick, Fearful Majesty: The Life and Reign of Ivan the Terrible (1987) and write a one-page paper explaining the rationale for Ivan's ideas about the powers of the tsar.