Russian President Vladimir Putin The first Russian monarch to claim the title of “Tsar” was Ivan IV (1530-1584). Tsar was a corruption of the Latin word Caesar, the title assumed by Roman emperors in classical antiquity. Ivan IV would go down in history with an additional moniker, Ivan the Terrible. It was under Ivan IV that the Russian empire first took form. During his long reign from 1553 to 1584, Russia undertook the conquest of the Khanates of Kazan, Astrakahn and Sibir. The latter would eventually give its name to a vast, at the time unconquered, territory that stretched from …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
