1752. Перевезенцев С.В.: Характер Ивана IV, первого русского царя. Ужас бояр и посла Поссевино

Issue 1752. 06/08/2026. "The Character of Ivan IV, the First Russian Tsar. The Horror of the Boyars and Ambassador Possevino." About Ivan's orphaned childhood and the boyars' bullying, about the poisoning of Elena Glinskaya and Ivan IV's first wife, how much poison was in the bodies of his son Ivan Ivanovich and Tsar Ivan himself, about the Tsar's trust in his inner circle of "non-possessors," who tried to limit the Tsar's power, why the Tsar's wise advisers wanted to be "more important than the Tsar," why Tsar Ivan felt free from the boyars during the storming of Kazan, why the boyars considered Ivan a deranged mystic, about the Tsar's sincerity in his first letter to Andrei Mikhailovich Kurbsky, about the Tsar's principles of autocracy, what "Russian autocracy" is, and why Ivan IV's Orthodox conviction so horrified the papal ambassador and thug Antonio Possevino—watch and listen to the next conversation in the series "Russian Transfiguration. History of Russian Thought from the 10th to the 17th Centuries." Sergey Vyacheslavovich Perevezentsev, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor in the Faculty of Political Science at Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russian writer, historian, and philosopher, is a guest at the Russian Radio University. The episode premiered on June 8, 2026.