Ivan the Terrible (2012) was seen by his tutor, Alexander Vetrov, as being potentially his "role of a lifetime".

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The world has given us leaders like Ivan the Terrible and Louis XIV, horrible for different reason, but no less horrible.

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After being conquered by Ivan the Terrible in the 16th century, Kazan, the capital of Tatarstan, was successfully integrated into the Russian empire.

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In 1993, the Israeli Supreme Court cleared John Demjanjuk of war crimes after hearing evidence that he was known as "Ivan the Terrible" at prison camps.

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But Israel's highest court later overturned his sentence, after documents from the former Soviet Union indicated that "Ivan the Terrible" had probably been a different man.

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In 1555 Czar Ivan the Terrible granted a group of English merchants a monopoly on the trade of furs, timber and cloth, thus establishing the Muscovy Company.

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The reason the relievers are so worn down lies mostly in the pitching of Freddy Garcia and Phil Hughes, who have been consistently terrible, but Ivan Nova and Hiroki Kuroda haven't been much better.

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