This blood-thirsty Czar is surrounded by murder and intrigue--eight wives, poisoning, tortures, massacres, etc.

Translation of: Ivan le Terrible. INCLUDES INDEX.

TABLE OF CONTENTS -- The parents -- Childhood -- Czar Ivan IV -- Reforms -- Kazan -- Illness and its consequences -- Livonia and Anastasia -- Sorrow and violence -- The Kurbsky affair -- The oprichniki -- Metropolitan Philip -- The martyrdom of Novgorod -- The burning of Moscow by the Tatars -- The czar's bed and the throne of Poland -- Stephen Bathory -- The Czarevich -- The final days.