#Ivan grozny

[petitebonaparte]

I am incredibly sorry for the awakening of my 2017 hyperfixation

[rahwle]

long live the Tsar.

[pacingmusings]

Seen (again) in 2024:

Ivan the Terrible, Part 1 (Sergei Eisenstein), 1944

[lookingrpacc]

Looking for a rp with Fyodor Basmanov and Ivan the terrible

anyone who wants to write about them ? if yes, DM me!!

I adapt to any kind of rp!

[stoertebeker]

In my Fyodor Basmanov era (wearing the most over the top dangly earrings)

[multifru196]

Goida by Jack Gelb

[rwpohl]

юность петра, sergey gerasimov 1980

[minayuri]

Ivan the Terrible (1944) - dir. Sergei Eisenstein

[danaa-scully]

Aleksandr Yatsenko and Tatyana Lyalina as Ivan IV and Anastasia Zakharyina-Yurieva 

The Terrible (2020) 

↳ Episode 1: Tsar of all Russia

[dontforgetukraine]

After backlash and Russia targeting the Dershprom, the publisher Bloomsbury Books changed the cover of "Designing Russian Cinema" from the Derzhprom cover to this.

According to Nata Druhak, "The new cover depicts the shooting preparations of the film 'Ivan Grozny' in Almaty, Kazakhstan. The film was directed by Sergei Eisenstein, who was born in Riga, Latvia."

This is another example of institutions in the West facilitating Russian propaganda, that nations under the Soviet/Russian Imperial equates to being Russian.

Also, this is another example of propaganda not only existing in social media. It's in books.

[evilelitest2]

Russian-Ukraine War Part 4: The Birth of Russia

So Russia is big. It's like one of their defining traits, vodka, art, brutality, colonialism, communism, and being massive.  But did you know that once Russia was once…not so big?  Let's do some history.

So the Mongolian Empire was a brutal genocidal engine of conquest but if you survived the initial invasion, it wasn’t so bad by the standard of brutal imperialists, the Mongols were big on religious tolerance, cultural integration and above all trade.  So the Russians found themselves suddenly connected to Central and East Asia through their Mongol overlords, and Russia for the first time in Russian history, it is as connected to East Asia as it is to Europe.  

The Mongolian Empire was great at conquest but struggled a lot with the ruling, and it probably won’t surprise you that it broke into 4 smaller states shortly after the death of Genghis Khan, located in the Middle East, China, Mongolia and Russia Respectively.  The one that concerns us is the Golden Hoard, the Russian based Mongolian state, who were called “Tatars” by the locals. 

The Golden Hoard wasn’t an Empire that spent most of their time breathing down your neck and setting major policies in their capital, instead they ruled indirectly via tributary states.  They would basically allow your kingdom to exist and kinda do its own thing as long as you paid your taxes, and one special boy kingdom was allowed the honor of collecting the taxes.  The special boy of our story is the Grand Duchy of Moscow, which will overtime be upgraded to the Principality of Moscow, to the Grand Principality of Moscow as they steadily get more and more powerful, using the privileges they got as the Mongol’s special boys to eventually grow their military and economy. 

Eventually they were able to push back the Mongols (assisted by the Golden Hordes constant civil wars), and by the time of Ivan the III aka Ivan the Great, the state was independent and a massive nation. Ivan III is kinda seen as the first independent Ruler of Russia, where Russia exists in its own right and not just as a Mongolian Tributary state.   Ivan’s grandson, Ivan the IV, aka Ivan the Vasilyevich, aka Ivan Grozny, aka Ivan the Terrible eventually decided that the Title of Grand Prince wasn’t quite good enough and so it was he who formally turned the state into an Empire, giving himself the title of Tsar, after brutally conquering all the people around him.  And so the Russian Empire was born between Ivan the Great and Ivan the Terrible, go figure.

(Ivan the Terrible, Very stable man)

So Ok, Russia is an independent Empire, but under Ivan the IV it becomes more than that, it becomes the Orthodox State.   Let me walk back a bit.  Christianity first super huge split was in 1054, where the Eastern Greek Speaking Orthodox Church broke apart from the Western Latin Speaking Roman Catholic Church.  The Catholics have the Pope, who manage to establish himself as a religious power greater than even Kings, while the east had the Patriarch, whose power was limited by the Emperor?  What Emperor you say?  Well time to talk about the Byzantine Emperor 

Patriarch (left) Pope (right)

So the Byzantines are the dominant supreme cultural power of the East right?  Well by the time of the Mongols, not so much.  The great city of Constantinople was sacked in 1204 by the 4th Crusade, in one of the greatest own goals in history, and the Empire was in a state of decline ever since.  And I mean actual decline, not Edward Gibbon (your decline is almost a thousand years) decline, which was pretty upsetting for the Rus, the other great Orthodox power (Ok I see you Bulgaria and Romania, you’ll get your own episodes another time calm down), and as Byzantine declined, Muscovy keep taking on more and more of the role as “big Orthodox power of the east”.  But the striking blow came when Constantinople fell in 1453 to the Ottoman Empire under Mehmed the II aka Mehmed the Conqueror, bringing a final end to the Byzantine empire…ok there were a few splinter states but Mehmet gets them 20 years later so once and for all Byzantines are gone.

(Mehmet II preparing to destroy Byzantinium)

SO I cannot empathizes enough how much of a blow this is to the Orthidox World. The Byzantine Empire was THE Orthidox power for over a thousand years, it was the center of the Orthidox world.Consantinople had been the center of the Orthodox church since Constantine himself, it's like Rome turning Muslim or Mecca Christian, like this is a theological crisis.  However, the Grand Principality of Moscow was eager to take on the role of center of the Orthodox Church, and Ivan the Great started to call Moscow “The Third Rome” to succeed the Byzantines as the Byzantines had “succeed” the Romans (despite being Roman…look i never said it is smart).  This is why Russia’s coat of Arms is the two headed eagle of the Byzantines.  His grandson Ivan Grozny unified the Principality into a strong centralized autocratic state through the power of brutal oppression and secret police, creating the Russian Empire.  Later the Patriarch would relocate there, effectively the closest thing to the head of the Orthodox church, making Moscow the new center of the Orthodox faith.

As the "Third Rome" Russia wasn't just an Empire, it had a divine mandate to take territory and spread the Orthidox Faith. The notion of this Russian style Manifest Destiny is going to come up again in this series, and it has never completely left the Russian National identiy.

Ivan took the title of Tsar which means Caesar as in Emperor.  As an Empire rather than a Principality, the “Divine Mandate” of Russia became to serve as the protector of the Orthodox Church, to reunify the old Kievan Rus, and restore Constantinople.  Like most empires, including the Mongol, the Russian Empire is based on the notion that they have a divine right to rule over everybody else. This dream was put aside for the Time of Troubles, a civil war so horrific that it makes Game of Thrones look peaceful, but after that confusion Russia was ready to go (this is where the Royal family goes from Ruik to Romanov) This is not going to be an extensive look at all of Tsarist Russia, just the stuff which I think is important to understand for Ukraine.  Colonization, the Tsar and Serfdom.

[petitebonaparte]

Jealousy Episode

I decided to start translating at least some part of the 'Ivan Grozny' movie by S. Eisenstein so I'll share some of my favs all the way through!

This one is abt Fyodor being jealous <3

The sundress swirling. Soaring, as if it got detached from the ground. Walking through the mansion like a hurricane. Fawning near the Tsar's seat. It stopped abruptly. The beads to one side. The braids to another. Under the mask — black curls. Under the brows — a familiar eye. Under the sundress — a familiar stature.

The Tsar loves to dress up. He loves to dress up the others as well. The masks — to make a ruckus. So does Fed'ka entertain the Tsar, dressed up as a lastikha*.

Fed'ka overhears the words of the Tsar: 'For I am an orphan with nobody to love and pity me...' Resentment starts growing in Fyodor.

Jealousy is taking over Basmanov: He is concerned with Vladimir's nearness to the Tzar. His eyes are burning with anxiety.

Ivan looks at him barely noticably, with his eyes narrowed. He winked.

Basmanov has calmed down: He understood, that the Tsar is plotting a game. Fawning twice as much as before. Twice as loud as before are the cheers: 'Goida! Goida!'

[goddammitjosef]

Lol at your background drawing. Is that from Russian history?

P. S. Cubans are among the best people I ever met ❤️ even though sometimes your dialect is a bit too fast for me 😂

yes it is!! it's fedor basmanov and ivan grozny! (it was drawn by Phobs)

also tysm russians are also really nice person and btw i do talk really fast my accent is thick

[pacingmusings]

Seen (again) in 2024:

Ivan the Terrible, Part 2 (Sergei Eisenstein), 1958

[goddyweirdo]

RUSSREAL TOPHVANS

a selection of small headcannons

Due to the specifics of the legislation, each of the clones had to find two parents. Topher ended up in a middle-class family with workaholic parents, and Grozny ended up in a low-class family with alcoholics

Since all the clones were of the same age, the clones were divided according to the directions of physics/humanities/chemistry-biological. But no one asked where the children wanted, so they were divided into random. Topher ended up in the humanities class, Vanya in the chemical-biological

Topher calls himself by his full name and is not shy, since there is no cancellation culture in Russia. 😍

Topher actually scribbles fan fiction on a Ficbook about Christopher Columbus, and no one knows about it.

They both don't give a fuck about the uniform and both have a wardrobe limited to three T-shirts, two pants, one jacket and one underpants

Ivan runs around smoking behind garages every change, and Topher locks himself in the last toilet stall so that people just don't touch him.

[thesolyanka]

For People of the West, who might forgot that pure evil exist

by Easy Rider

For those surprised by pictures from Bucha, Izyum, Mariupol, Kharkiv and other Ukrainian city attacked by russians, just a kindly reminder.

1570. ivan the terrible terminates autonomy of Veliky Novgorod. Women and children were massacred, churches burnt and looted. About 20 thousand people died, numerous were deported. Following famine did the rest.

1708. piotr the great destroys Kozak Hetmanate, a predecessor of an independent Ukraine. It capital, Batouryn was burnt and all inhabitants including women and children, executed.

1794. russian army conquers Warsaw, a last act of Poland's partitions. Inhabitants of Praga, the eastern Warsaw suburb, including women and children are massacred. Up-to 20 thousand died. suvorov, russian commander-in-chief is promoted to field marshal by catherine the great.

1863-1864. Repressions after January Rising on the territories of the former Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Governor General of Vilna, muravyov nicknamed 'hangman' bans Latin alphabet, executes publicly combatants and deports 9.000 of them to Siberia, imposes enormous contributions.

1917-1920 Red terror on the Polish and Ukrainian territories during bolshevik takeover, Polish-russian War and Ukrainian-russian War. For 3 years looting, raping and killing raged between Vistula and Dnipro, prisoners of war were routinely killed by the red army.

1932-1933. Holodomor. Terror famine, purposely induced by stalin on the territory of Ukraine resulted millions of deaths according to lowest estimates and up-to 10 millions according to the highest. Though directed against landowners, it affected mostly ethnic Ukrainians.

1939-1941. soviet occupation of eastern Poland. Approx. 800.000 were deported to barrens in the North and East, many of them died. 7.000 were executed, 110.000 imprisoned, 150.000 forced to join the red army. Same policy was pursued by the ussr in the annexed Baltic countries.

1941. red army forced to retreat by advancing Wehrmacht, so chekists however still had time to execute (mostly political) prisoners in the cities of soviet occupied Ukranian, Polish, Lithuanian, Latvian and Estonian territories. At least 10.000 were hastily shot.

1943. Discovery of mass graves in Katyń, at that time occupied by the Germans. At least 21.768 Polish citizens, mostly officers and policemen were shot by chekists in 1940. Nazi propaganda exploits the massacre, but stalin coldly denies everything and accuses Germany of the killings.

1944-1945. Europe. Mass rapes were notorious on every territory 'liberated' by the red army. Not only in Germany which was to be 'punished' but also in Poland, where mass-raping in 1945 led to a pandemic of sexually transmitted diseases. Raped were women 9-80, often gang-raped.

1945-1947. In all countries 'liberated' by ussr, soviet security forces hunted down all who might oppose the communist rule. In Poland only, 6.000 were executed after mock trials and some 100.000 repressed; most of them soldiers of the anti-Nazi resistance and war heroes.

1956. Hungarian revolution against soviet occupation, the red army intervenes. 22.000 imprisoned, about 300 executed. Approx. 200.000 flee Hungary

1968. Prague demands autonomy, the red army intervenes. Approx 100 people killed. 270.000 emigrate.

1979-1989. soviet intervention in Afghanistan. Approx. 1,5 million of inhabitants murdered, 90% of them civilians. Country was completely destroyed. Mass killings were conducted on a regular basis (check Laghman, Kulchabat, Rauzdi, Padkhwab-e Shana massacres), toys were set as booby traps.

1994-1996 and 1999-2000. Two Chechen Wars. Up to 100.000 murdered, mostly civilians. Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, destroyed. Filtration camps, kidnappings, tortures. Gang rape as purposeful torture method against men. 70% of households destroyed.

2008. russian war against Georgia has started. Bombing of civilian high populated places with cluster bombs. Oh, wait, it was an unprovoked attack on a sovereign state, but somehow nobody cared (hello UN).

2014. russian war against Ukraine has started. Until 24 February 2022 total number of civilians killed was estimated at 4.317. Illegal detention, abduction tortures and intimidation of people contesting by russian occupants were routine. Mass graves were discovered on the territories liberated by Ukraine.

So, next time you are going to be 'surprised' and 'shocked' by the achievements of russian army, russian political leadership or russia in overall, please don't say that you didn't know or didn't expected.

The truly pure evil exists.