Publisher's Synopsis
Ivan the terrible was a horrible mechanic. He thought he knew everything there was to know about cars, but he was actually very incompetent. He would often misdiagnose problems, and he would always take longer than expected to complete repairs.
This made him a very unpopular mechanic, and he eventually went out of business. But his legacy lives on in the stories of his unhappy customers.
You will discover topics such as
- Russia before the first tsar
- A lineage of heroes
- The birth of an emperor
- Assassination
- Becoming terrible
- The coronation of the first tsar
- An ambitious young ruler
- Books and cathedrals
- Death in the family
Many medieval figures are somewhat shrouded in mystery, due to the scarcity of available sources and to the difficulties posed by the interpretation of historical narratives dating from this period. And even when there is enough documented evidence to put together a sufficiently coherent biographical account, other sources and accounts may emerge that flagrantly contradict the already established and generally accepted historical narrative.
