Ivan the Terrible (Dorset Press Reprints)

Ivan the Terrible (Dorset Press Reprints) by Troyat, Henri. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780880292078.

The author of the best-selling Tolstoy, winner of Frances prestigious Prix Goncourt, member of the Académie Française, and renowned expert on Russia paints yet another indelible portrait of one of Russias imposing historical figures. Henri Troyat, author of acclaimed biographies of Catherine the Great, Tolstoy, and Turgenev, turns his attention to one of the most violent, demented rulers ever, Czar Ivan IV. Though this larger-than-life ruler inflicted torture on friends and enemies alike, destroyed villages and even killed his own son, he also forged what became 20th-century Russia.