Perhaps the most controversial and controversial figure in our history is Ivan the Terrible. Foreigners have long made “Ivan the Terrible” a symbol of the Russian soul and the Russian person, which once again testifies to the deep misunderstanding of our people that is common in the West. However, even in Rus', the image of the first tsar, his fate and his deeds cause incessant journalistic squabbles, cruel criticism or unbridled apology. Moreover, all this began while Ivan Vasilyevich was still alive, thanks to the letters of the fugitive governor Andrei Kurbsky and his “History of the Grand Duke of Moscow.” Since then, supporters and opponents of the first Tsar of Great Rus' have been fighting, hurling historical arguments at each other or trying to crush opponents with polemical pressure.