Queer Places:
Cathedral of the Archangel
Moscow, Moscow Federal City, Russia
Ivan IV Vasilyevich (25 August 1530 – 28 March [O.S. 18 March] 1584),[2] commonly known in English as Ivan the Terrible,[3][4][5][6] was the grand prince of Moscow from 1533 to 1547 and the first Tsar of all Russia from 1547 to 1584.
Ivan was the son of Vasili III, the Rurikid ruler of the Grand Duchy of Moscow. He was appointed grand prince after his father's death, when he was three years old. A group of reformers known as the "Chosen Council" united around the young Ivan, declaring him tsar (emperor) of all Rus' in 1547 at the age of 16 and establishing the Tsardom of Russia with Moscow as the predominant state. Ivan's reign was characterised by Russia's transformation from a medieval state to an empire under the tsar but at an immense cost to its people and its broader, long-term economy.
A composer and a poet, Ivan was the first ruler to be crowned tsar of all
Russia. In his final years as tsar he vaccilated between extremes. It was all
party or all austerity. He married seven times, but what really seemed to keep
his samovar brewing was men in female attire. One of the most viscious
lieutenants of Ivan's political police,
Feodor Basmanov, rose to power by performing seductive dances in women's
clothes in Ivan's court.
Cathedral of the Archangel
My published books:
BACK TO HOME PAGE
