Chapter IV: From Ivan the Great to Ivan the Terrible (1462-1584 A.d.) 166

Accession of Ivan (III) Vasilievitch, 166. Character and aims
of Ivan, 168. Ivan Vasilievitch marries the Greek princess
Sophia, 170. The growth of autocracy, 171. Subjugation of the
republics, 172. The final overthrow of the Tatars, 176. Affairs
of Lithuania, 179. Last years of Ivan; inheritance left to his
sons, 181. Appreciations of Ivan Vasilievitch, 181. Accession
of Vasili Ivanovitch, 184. Wars with Lithuania, 184. Wars with
the Tatars, 188. The growing power of Russia, 189. Maxine the
Greek, 190. Private life of Vasili Ivanovitch; his death, 192.
A forecast of the reign of Ivan (IV) the Terrible, 192. The
minority of Ivan IV, 194. Ivan assumes the reins of government,
196. The discovery of Siberia, 197. The restraining influences
of Anastasia, 198. Ivan’s atrocities, 199. The Polish invasion,
200. The reign of terror, 202. The march against Novgorod, 203.
Carnage in Moscow, 205. The struggle for Livonia, 207. Projects
of alliance with England, 208. Death of Ivan the Terrible, 208.
Karamzin’s estimate of Ivan, 209. Ivan the Terrible compared
with Peter the Great, 212.

CHAPTER V

THE CENTURY AFTER IVAN THE TERRIBLE (1584-1682 A.D.) 213

Character of Boris Godunov, 214. War with Sweden, 215. Serfdom,
218. Death of Dmitri, 219. The reign of Boris, 222. The false
Dmitri appears, 224. Career and murder of Demetrius, 227.
The false Dmitri; marriage and death, 228. Vasili Ivanovitch
Shuiski, 229. Accession of the house of Romanov, 237. The
Cossacks, 239. Last years of Michael, 242. Alexis, 243. Feodor,
247.