Photos from open sources Probably each of us saw a picture of I. Repin (this mystical artist) “Ivan the Terrible and his son Ivan November 16, 1581 years, “in which the king hugs his child, killed by him in the heat painful anger.
Even in the movie “Ivan Vasilievich Changes the Profession”, the director L. Gaidai wittily introduced this mystical picture into one of the episodes, which for most viewers generates a weary expectation: now the king recognizes himself and his murder on the canvas. But the king for some reason doesn’t know …
We judge Ivan the Terrible’s murder of his son only by the famous “History of the Russian State” N.M. Karamzin. In her Nikolai Mikhailovich with his characteristic literary gift describes how the king in a fit of anger that Ivan stood up for the pregnant tsarina whom Grozny attacked strikes him head with a staff and inadvertently kills. But the annals of those times are not mention this, according to them the prince simply died, nowhere is there even a hint that he was killed.
What sources did Karamzin use in that case? It turns out he used the stories of foreigners Heinrich Staden and Anthony Posevina. These were diplomats from Germany and Poland, who tried to persuade the Russian Tsar: one to unfavorable conditions in Germans favor, and the second – to build Catholic churches in Russia. Neither one succeeded in his mission, and therefore he tried spread the most terrible rumors about Russia and its ruler, not disobeying something and lying.
Note that in the sixties of the last century, this dashing bike was finally debunked by Soviet scientists who uncovered tombs of Ivan the Terrible and Tsarevich Ivan. As it turned out, in their there was too much mercury in the bones, indicating that another sublimate. And on the head of the prince no bone no damage was found.
Russian tsars, their children and wives were completely killed at that time in another way, they simply poisoned me by adding mercuric chloride to the food. From getting into mercury organism, a person was dying gradually, as if from some incomprehensible internal ailment. And it was impossible to prove anything. well and who did this? It is understood that the boyars surrounding the royal court. And the goal of such actions is transparent, as water is power. From time immemorial centuries people are torn, not stopping at any crimes …
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