Meanwhile Deus and Mike our celebrated Anglo Elizabethan age was blighted with the most horrendous atrocities, Shakespeare was well acquainted with them, hence his brilliant plays highlighted his awareness to heinous murders, plots and devious going-on throughout history.
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Our history is blighted with the most outrageous hypocrisy and still continues today.
Mankind might well think that it's conveniently swept under the carpets of history, but no it is NOT, of that you can be sure, as individuals you reap what you sow and yes as collectives, ie nations you also reap the blessings and curses of what they sow.
Who
needs the myth of the son murderer?
October 20 2017
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Everybody knows the picture
“Ivan the Terrible and his son Ivan 16 in November 1581 of the year” from
childhood, created in 1883-1885. the great Russian artist Ilya Repin. It
depicts King John IV, in deep sorrow, bending over his son. The reason for the
grief, according to the plot of the picture, is clear: the king, suddenly
angry, suddenly fatally injured his son and heir with his own hands. History the
murder of Ivan Ivanovich Ivan the Terrible so firmly entered the public
consciousness that today almost no one doubts: the Russian tsar was really so
bloodthirsty that he cruelly punished his own son, one can imagine how he
cracked down on the population of Russia.
When work on the picture was completed, it was seen by the Chief Prosecutor of
the Holy Synod, Konstantin Pobedonostsev, the main ideologist of the Russian
Empire at the end of the 19th century. Pobedonostsev did not just not like the
picture. The “court conservative” expressed his most decisive indignation,
since he considered that the picture not only undermines the foundations of
autocracy, but also contributes to the assertion of a historical myth that does
not correspond to reality. Ivan the Terrible did not kill his son, Konstantin Pobedonostsev
was convinced.
Ultimately, 1 April 1885, Repin's picture was banned from being shown in the
Russian Empire. So for the first time censorship banned the picture - before
literary works were censored. However, already 11 July 1885, the ban on the
display of the picture was lifted. They say that the artist-battle artist
Alexei Bogolyubov, who was close to the imperial court and had a certain
influence on the authorities, applied for the work of Ilya Repin. After the
censorship restrictions were lifted, the picture was able to be publicly
available. Soon it became the main symbol of the myth of the Tsar, the sonic
killer, which is still cultivated even in the school system of education.
What so outraged Pobedonostsev, and then the Emperor Alexander III himself in
the picture? First of all, its historical unreliability. There is still no real
evidence in favor of the fact that it was Ivan the Terrible who killed Prince
Ivan. The cruel scene of sonicide depicted in the picture is not just the
figment of the artistic imagination of Ilya Repin. As early as the 16th
century, rumors about the murder of Ivan Ivanovich by his own father were
widely spread in Europe precisely at the suggestion of European diplomats who
worked at the Moscow court. They were interested in discrediting the Russian
state by any means, including through the depiction of Tsar John the Terrible
by the cruel murderer and psychopath, who raised his hand to his own son, the
heir to the throne.
- Tsarevich Ivan for a walk. Avilov M.I. 1913 year.
Tsarevich Ivan was the son of John IV and his wife Anastasia Romanova. He was
born in 1554 year. Since his older brother Dmitry died in infancy in the 1553
year, even before the birth of Ivan, the latter was the eldest living son of
John IV and, accordingly, the heir to the throne. Grown up Ivan accompanied
Grozny in military campaigns, participated in government, in a word - gradually
preparing for the role of the future king. However, historians agree that Ivan
Ivanovich was not an independent political figure of Moscow Russia. In his
short life, Ivan Ivanovich was married three times. Each of the marriages of
the young prince could be called unsuccessful.
The first time Ivan Ivanovich married in the 1571 year, 17-years old, Evdokia
Saburova - the daughter of the boyar Bogdan Yuryevich Saburov. However, already
in 1572, the princess was tonsured a nun. Officially, she was tonsured because
of her childlessness, however, it is more likely that Evdokia somehow angered
Ivan the Terrible and he decided to get rid of her daughter-in-law, while Ivan
Ivanovich himself loved Evdokia and was very unhappy with her father’s
decision.
In the 1575 year, three years after Yevdokia's vows, Ivan Ivanovich married the
second time - Theodosia Solova, daughter of the Ryazan boyar of the Horde
origin, Mikhail Timofeevich Petrov. With Theodosia, the prince, she lived for
almost four years - until 1579, but she was also a nun - also for
childlessness. The latest version looks quite realistic, because in four years
Theodosius never bore a heir to the prince.
Finally, in 1581, Ivan Ivanovich married Elena Sheremeteva, the daughter of the
celebrated commander Ivan "The Little" Vasilyevich Sheremetev, who
was killed in the siege of Revel in 1577. The girl she was beautiful, however,
the king Sheremetev was unpleasant to Tsar John IV. Therefore, most likely, the
prince made his own choice, and this immediately brought on a negative attitude
from his father. It was Elena Sheremeteva who, according to the popular
version, became the “cause” of the conflict between John IV and his son.
Jesuit
Antonio Possevino in 1581 arrived in Moscow as a papal legate. An experienced
47-year-old diplomat, former secretary of the Jesuit general, Possevino was
sent by the Vatican to Russia for several tasks. First, he had to persuade the
Moscow Tsar to unite with the Catholic Church, and secondly, to offer Ivan the
Terrible, in exchange for the union of the Orthodox and Catholic churches under
the rule of the Pope, the Polish crown. It was Possevino who left a note in
which he told his version of the death of Tsarevich Ivan Ivanovich, which
happened just in 1581 year.
According to Possevino, Elena Sheremeteva was in her lower dress in her peace
when the Grand Duke of Moscow Ivan the Terrible entered her. The monarch, who
was notable for his hot temper, instantly became enraged at the appearance of
the princess and severely beat her with a staff. The princess was pregnant, but
the day after the beating, she had a miscarriage. At a time when Ivan the
Terrible was beating the princess, his son Ivan Ivanovich rushed into the
chambers and tried to stop the beatings. However, the angry king, as Possevino
noted, hit his son with a staff in the temple, inflicting a mortal wound on
him.
It was this version expressed by the papal legate that later formed the basis
of the spreading myth about the murder of his son by Ivan the Terrible. Other
Western travelers who visited Russia, for example, Heinrich Staden, who for
some time was even a royal oprichnik, began to report on the death of the
prince as a result of a blow by the king's baton. Whether a spy, or just a
rogue, Heinrich Staden left completely Russophobic notes, which were later
criticized by domestic historians as unreliable.
Meanwhile, besides the papal legate no one no longer testified not only about
the death of the prince at the hands of his father, but also about the violent
reasons for the death of the heir to the throne. Ivan the Terrible himself in a
letter to N. R. Zakhar'in-Yuryev and A. Ya. Shelkanov, wrote that his son was
seriously ill and therefore he could not come to Moscow. The Russian chronicles
report the death of the prince, but nowhere does it say that he was killed or
died from the consequences of his injury.
Another version paints Ivan the Terrible as a libertine who sexually harassed
his daughter-in-law, and Ivan Ivanovich, outraged, entered into a conflict with
his father and then the king struck him in the temple with a rod. But this
version has absolutely no evidence.
However, many Russian historians subsequently took the Possevino story as a
basis, although in some writings it was altered beyond recognition. For
example, Nikolai Karamzin, without denying the murder of the prince by Ivan the
Terrible himself, argued that Ivan Ivanovich was killed by his father during a
political discussion, when he demanded that the king send an army to liberate
Pskov. Then Ivan the Terrible was furious and hit the prince with a rod in the
head. However, when the prince fell, the king came to the realization that he
had done. He rushed to his son, cried, prayed to God for the salvation of the
prince, but all was in vain. It was the version of Nikolay Karamzin that formed
the basis of the artistic intention of the famous painting by Ilya Repin.
However, the Pskov Chronicle indicates that the conflict between the king and
the prince because of the liberation of Pskov did take place, but in the year
1580 and was in no way connected with the death of Ivan Ivanovich. Grozny
really hit his son with a rod, but did not cause him fatal injuries. Whatever
it was, but on November 19, 1581, Ivan Ivanovich died at the age of 27 years in
Alexandrov Sloboda (now it is the territory of the city of Alexandrov, Vladimir
region). Historical sources indicate that Ivan Ivanovich died slowly, due to a
severe illness that struck him, which remained uncertain.
In 1903, Russian historian Nikolai Petrovich Likhachev concluded that the prince’s
illness lasted eleven days. At first she seemed easy and did not attach
importance to her, but then the prince became worse. Invited healers could not
save the heir to the throne, and 19 November, he died. For Ivan the Terrible,
the death of his son, the heir to the throne, was a powerful blow and in many
ways undermined the health of the king, who died two and a half years after the
departure of Ivan Ivanovich. Ivan Ivanovich, and then his father Ivan the
Terrible, was buried in the Cathedral of the Archangel.
In the 1963 year, almost 400 years after the death of Ivan Ivanovich and Ivan
the Terrible, scientists organized an examination of the remains of the king
and the prince. To this end, an opening of the tombs of Ivan the Terrible and
Ivan Ivanovich was organized in the Archangel Cathedral in the Moscow Kremlin.
The remains were given for medical forensic and medico-chemical expertise.
Research data showed that in the remains of the prince, for an inexplicable
reason, the mercury content was exceeded 32 times, the lead and arsenic
contents were several times higher. This circumstance may indicate only one
thing - the prince could have been poisoned. Then the reason for his illness
and death within eleven days becomes clear.
Naturally, the scientists tried to establish the fact that Ivan Ivanovich
wounds the head. However, the skull of the heir to the royal throne was in such
a poor condition due to the collapse of the bone tissue that it was impossible
to find out whether Ivan Ivanovich had any injuries or not. If it were not for
this circumstance, then we could have forever received reliable evidence that
it was not at all the quarrel with his father that became the real cause of the
young prince's death.
Thus, we see that the myth of the sonish murder of Ivan the Terrible was
deliberately inflated by Western sources as another proof of the wild customs
allegedly reigning in Russia. Meanwhile, real historical sources show that even
during the reign of the hot-tempered Ivan the Terrible, justice in Moscow
Russia was much more humane and milder than in Western countries. No death
sentence could be approved without the consent of the sovereign. And very often
Ivan the Terrible pardoned criminals, including those who committed serious
crimes and in theory should have been executed in any case.
In addition, Ivan the Terrible was very gentle even with respect to outspoken
conspirators, for example, he endured Vladimir Staritsky for a very long time —
his cousin who made all kinds of intrigues and intrigues in order to eliminate
Ivan the Terrible. The plot of Vladimir Staritsky was opened in 1563, but the
autocrat, who was able to simply destroy the conspirator, simply deprived him
of the right to live in the Kremlin and removed him from the courtyard. In
1566, Ivan the Terrible forgave Vladimir Starytsky and brought him back to
court. However, Vladimir Staritsky did not appreciate the mercy of John IV and
continued his conspiratorial plans. In the end, the patience of Ivan the
Terrible broke. In the 1569 year, after taking Ivan the Terrible, Staritsky
felt bad and soon died. For six years Ivan the Terrible tolerated the
conspirator in his circle and forgave him several times. Meanwhile, one can
recall how “humane” were the European states of that time, where the Holy
Inquisition raged, and kings and queens led a way of life, compared to which
Ivan the Terrible was just a child.
It was during the reign of John IV that the Russian state began to turn truly
into a powerful state, which included in its membership the fragments of the
Golden Horde - the Astrakhan and Kazan Khanates, which led successful wars
against their strong opponents. Naturally, this circumstance could not come to
the liking of the rulers of the countries of Western Europe and, most
importantly, the Vatican. The popes, claiming a leading role in the Christian
world, could not accept the fact that the Orthodox state had acquired such
power. Therefore, numerous undercover games were waged against Ivan the
Terrible, and since the tsar could not be eliminated with the help of
intrigues, it was decided to start an “information war” against him. Ivan the
Terrible appears in the notes of Western diplomats and travelers as a crazy, aggressive,
depraved despot, and the myth about the murder of his own son serves only as an
illustration of this line of Western sources regarding the Russian state and
its ruler.
Author:
Ilya Polonsky
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