This ruler established his country's first printing press, the Print Yard, at Kitai-gorod, and aided the rise of the Stroganov family by awarding them a settlement patent along the Kama river in newly conquered Siberia.
This ruler established his country's first printing press, the Print Yard, at Kitai-gorod, and aided the rise of the Stroganov family by awarding them a settlement patent along the Kama river in newly conquered Siberia. This ruler concluded the ten-year Truce of Yam-Zapolsky with Poland-Lithuania after a long failed siege of Pskov by Stephen Bathory. This man's suspicion that the Archbishop Pimen was a traitor led to the massacre of (*) Novgorod by his secret police, the Oprichniki. This ruler, who instigated the Livonian War, was succeeded by the incompetent Feodor I after he killed his son and heir-apparent. For 10 points, name this Rurikid ruler and first "Tsar of all Russia," whose epithet signified his fearsomeness.
This ruler established his country's first printing press, the Print Yard, at Kitai-gorod, and aided the rise of the Stroganov family by awarding them a settlement patent along the Kama river in newly conquered Siberia.
Ivan the Terrible [or Ivan IV Vasilyevich; or Ivan Grozny; prompt on \"Ivan\"]