HIS 241
Unit 4: Ivan IV and the
Time of Troubles
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.)
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What you must do in this unit
What you can do in this
unit
Some videos that you can watch for this unit
Extra Credit Options
- 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.
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